WINTER'S SILENCE by Stephanie Silberstein, with cover art/design by David Chayim & photograph by Shoshannah Stone, ISBN # 978-0-9816549-0-2, Narrow Path Publishing $12.50, June 2008
Description:
CHILDHOOD ISN'T EASY... ..
...especially for Emily Horowitz. As the only Jewish child in her neighborhood, Emily s spirit bears a peculiar burden. On the first night of Chanukah, she marches grimly home, a note pinned to her pocket about her refusal to sing Christmas carols in music class. But Emily s baby brother has just been diagnosed as autistic, confirming her mother s worst fear. Emily is about to become a forgotten child, lost inside a stormy world of grown-up problems and childhood fantasies.
And winter has barely begun...
Stephanie Silberstein has been writing about children for the last five years. Her short story Before Everything Happened, later adapted for Winter's Silence, won an honorable mention in the 73rd Annual Writer's Digest competition. Ms. Silberstein grew up on Long Island, New York, as the only Jewish child in her school district. She has lived on both coasts and now makes her home in North Carolina, where she teaches children with disabilities.
Last night I returned to North Carolina from a much-needed long weekend, and I’m back at my desk this morning.
I will, however, be out of the office again today for anywhere from thirty minutes to a few hours, as I hope all of you will be today, too - unless you voted early.
No matter who you [...]
Don’t forget that the 2008 Induction Ceremony for the NC Literary Hall of Fame will be this Sunday, October 19, at 2 p.m., at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
James Applewhite, William S. Powell, and Lee Smith are this year’s inductees. [...]
I’ve found, or been sent, so many good links and other tidbits of interest to writers, I hardly know where to start.
Let’s begin with an interview with Ron Rash, the keynote speaker at the 2008 Fall Conference and author of the new novel Serena, from today’s Shelf Awareness:
Book Brahmins: Ron Rash
Ron Rash is the author [...]
Hat's Off!
... to Marianna Crane. Her essay, " Cases: His Service Ended, but the Battles Raged On " was published in the Science section of the New York Times July 15th.
