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Born and raised aboard the Queen Mary, I never quite lost my sea legs, but they didn't help me deal with my first major trauma. My childhood career as a piano prodigy was cut brutally short when the Slovenian concert hall in which I was playing the notorious "Rach 3" was demolished in a freak storm. Though struck twice by lightning, I can clearly recall being visited by the spirit of Edith Wharton who made me promise to someday write a book about her (years later, I would actually write two -- one for each lightning bolt). |
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Fighting back a tear or two, my mother, Sally Jesse Raphael, urged me post-disaster to direct my energies into a field guaranteed to earn me gainful employment. I was also inspired by an accidental meeting in the South of France with the resplendent Tiara Duvet, who gives advice as good as anything else she gives. So, after I graduated from the Sorbonne with a degree in kibitzing (cum laude), I ghost-wrote many of Jacques Derrida's laugh-riot screenplays -- all of them unproduced, but several optioned by Demi Moore.
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In addition to writing the mysteries Hot Rocks, Tropic of Murder, Burning Down the House, Little Miss Evil, The Death of a Constant Lover, The Edith Wharton Murders and Let's Get Criminal, I have also written across genres and time zones:
I committed co-authorship on the following books of psychology: |
I am currently writing a thriller called War and Peace, featuring the Dalai Lama. [More upcoming titles.]
