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Wow! What a great movie!! I must warn you though, lots of violence and scary suspense. I felt exhausted afterwards. But, MAN! that was one heckuva good flick — fantastic actors, terrific writing. It’s very close to being as good as the first (Girl With The Dragon Tattoo). These are based on a series of … Read more
This August issue of the New York City Resident magazine contains 3 of my latest articles: Do You Have a Tale to Tell and Sell? About Susan Shapiro’s career and personal essay/book publishing classes • What Can You Do? About Bruce Frankel’s new book, What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life? • … Read more
Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent in 2009 (a 43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company. The research revealed that Americans spend a third of their time online (36 percent) communicating and networking across social networks, blogs, … Read more
After 13 years, Susan Shapiro’s book Overexposed was published. The author gave it a “Book Mitzvah.” A crowd of close friends, family, colleagues and students surrounded the cake for the candlelighting ceremony. Rabbi Dan blessed the book at Arte Restaurant on East 9th Street, NYC. Shapiro’s Mom flew in from Michigan as a surprise to … Read more
stumbling upon sites I would never have known about otherwise. Today I came across this touching site: beyondaglimpse.com. It is a book (in progress) that seeks to encourage seeing beauty in those who are born with deformities. It will be full of drawings and I’m so happy to have found the site. I’m continually amazed … Read more
Click here to read my recent article about Costa Rica as it appeared in the NYC Resident magazine’s Mid-July 2010 issue. Happy reading. Comments always welcome.
“‘Three minutes to fix your life.’ That’s what the headlines promised after the launch of my debut novel Speed Shrinking, where I introduced the world to the concept of free speed dating with therapists.” says author Susan Shapiro. It seemed a clever, timely idea in a lousy economy—and one that might help promote my book.” …
Susan Shapiro‘s next SECRETS OF SELLING YOUR FIRST BOOK seminar is Wednesday July 28 from 6 to 10 pm in Greenwich Village, NYC. Based on many requests she is also offering it online for out of towners. For more info: email profsue123@aol.com
My application to ASJA has been approved. Yeeeha! I guess all of the hard work paid off, eh?