Saturday, August 8, 2009

Saturday Spotlight

Today's author is Brenda Janowitz (I first heard about her on Free Book Friday).

Quick Facts:

1. She is a native New Yorker.
2. She attended Cornell University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Human Service Studies, with a Concentration in Race and Discrimination.
3. She attended Hofstra Law School.
4. She worked as a lawyer handling cases in the areas of trademark, anti-trust, internet, and false advertising.
5. She earned a federal clerkship with the United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
6. She has worked as a career counselor at two New York City law schools.
7. She has been published in the National Law Journal, the New York Law Journal, the New York Post and Publishers Weekly.
8. She teaches creative writing at Mediabistro.
9. She is the author of two novels, Scot on the Rocks and Jack with a Twist.

About Scot:

When her ex-boyfriend, Trip, gets engaged to Hollywood's latest It Girl, Manhattan attorney Brooke Miller plans to attend the wedding. Who says a modern girl can't stay friends with her ex? Besides, Brooke's got her sexy Scottish fiance, Douglas, to take her as a date. Okay, so maybe he's not exactly her fiance, but they're living together in his apartment, so she'll be getting the ring any minute, right? Wrong.

When a fight leaves her without a boyfriend (much less a fiance) just days before the wedding, Brooke faces the ultimate humiliation of attending her ex-boyfriend's nuptials alone. Desperate to find a replacement to fill Douglas's kilt, Brooke concocts an outrageous plan to survive the wedding and win the man of her dreams, all with her dignity ever-so-slightly intact.

About Jack:

Planning a wedding can be a trying experience...

A little prewedding anxiety is normal for every bride, and Manhattan attorney Brooke Miller isn't worried. She's got the loving support of the world's greatest guy, so planning her nuptials should be a piece of cake.

But that was yesterday.

Today, Brooke's landed her first big case and has just discovered that the opposing attorney is none other than her fiancé, Jack. But that's okay. These two professionals aren't going to let a little courtroom sparring get their legal briefs in a bunch...Right? Wrong! Now Jack's pulling every dirty trick in the law books, and Brooke's starting to suspect that maybe he isn't the man she thought he was. Warring with her fiancé at work and at home, Brooke realizes that she'll have to choose between the case of her life, or actually having a life.

10. She has a blog.

Has anyone else heard of her? Do her novels sound like something you might like?
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