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Jerry Zezima

Jerry Zezima is the very model of a modern, middle-aged man - except that he's now won four awards for humorous writing from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He laughs at the absurdities of life in his humor column for his hometown paper, The Stamford Advocate. His column is syndicated by McClatchy-Tribune and has run in newspapers across the country and around the world. A collection of his columns appears in his book, Leave It to Boomer: A Look at Life, Love and Parenthood by the Very Model of the Modern Middle-Age Man.

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How to write for the young adult market

Novelist Katrina Kittle took a leap. After three very successful novels with some very grown-up themes, she turned her eye to writing her first novel for the young adult market. So what makes writing a novel for young adults different? The best piece of advice I got on writing for young adults came from the amazing editor Sharyn November at Viking. She's the one who encouraged me to write for a younger audience in the first place, writing me a letter out of the blue after she read Th ...
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When your friends are your material

I recently praised the witty writing on my friend's blog and told her that she should consider submitting for print. "Yeah, but I could never publish the things about my kids that you do about yours." Such candor validates her true friend status. And often as a writer, I wonder how many real friends I have left. On the days I muster shedding my uniform drawstrings for appropriate lunch attire, I sit across from radiant women who bubble bathe and work out and wonder if they would invite me ...
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