Authors Needed to Give Presentations in New York

From time to time we get “Queries” from reporters and event organizers, which we will post here as appropriate. This one is a golden opportunity we’d like to pass along. There is a deadline to respond, so please email the organizer as soon as possible if you’re interested:
Authors Needed for Book Lovers Weekend
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Randy – Writing Involves Making Choices

As I’ve said before, experience is the source of much of my writing. But what is important to me is not necessarily important to anyone else. It can be something I think everyone should hear: for example these lines from On the Edge, a full-length play of mine. (They came from an experience I had [...]

Randy – Breaking the Rules

An interview at a school in a storage room with all the mops, brooms, chairs and miscellaneous equipment (setting), an interview of a teenage girl who had been molested by her father (plot and characters) was depicted in a play of mine called On the Edge. The original premise for the piece (training CPS workers [...]

Randy – Writing “Good People”

Matt Freeze extended a challenge to me, and I accepted it…and it had to do with me again taking up my novel about the Holocaust and not giving up on it. The rough, over-extended manuscript remained untouched for many years; there was a sense I couldn’t do anything with it because I hadn’t stuck to [...]

Randy – A Biography of Note

For every playwright mastering form, learning the organization and the historical development of a well-made play, becomes essential. It must become so ingrained…preparation, attack, struggle, turn, outcome… that he or she doesn’t have to think about it. It gives the viewer and the writer a satisfying and proven structure that can be relied on. It’s [...]