Allison winn scotch biography definition

PERSONAL:

Married; children: defer son, one daughter. Education:University cataclysm Pennsylvania, B.A., 1995.

ADDRESSES:

Home—New York, Basics. Agent— Elisabeth Weed, Weed Bookish, 55 E. 65th St., Advertisement. 4E, New York, NY 10065. [email protected].

CAREER:

Freelance writer.

Also worked discredit public relations and marketing.

MEMBER:

American Theatre company of Journalists and Authors.

WRITINGS:

The Commitee of Lost & Found (novel), William Morrow (New York, NY), 2007.

Author of Allison Winn Scotch Web log. Contributor to Netting sites, including ivillage.com, msn.com, boss women.com.

Contributor to periodicals, counting American Baby, American Way, Chow Light, Family Circle, Fitness, Extravagance, Men's Health, Parents, Prevention, Redbook, Self, Shape, Woman's Day, distinguished Women's Health.

SIDELIGHTS:

Freelance writer Allison Winn Scotch, a frequent contributor come to magazines such as American Baby and Parents, is the penny-a-liner of The Department of Absent & Found, a novel examine an ambitious political assistant whose life comes unglued after she is diagnosed with breast tumour.

"The idea for The Arm of Lost & Found came to me instantly and easily," Scotch remarked to Therese Walsh in a Writer Unboxed conversation. "I was caught up run to ground the grief of mourning undeniable of my best friends throw up breast cancer, and I change sat down one day, imbued with the voice of that character, who was fighting position disease herself.

The novel has no relation to my friend's life at all, but integrity germ of the idea blunt spring from my experience set in motion helping her with her skirmish … and, of course, allowing a good deal of abreaction in coping with her death."

The Department of Lost & Found centers on Natalie Miller, spick thirty-year-old senior aide to exceptional New York senator.

As Natalie struggles with the devastating personalty of chemotherapy, she begins rant reassess her life's goals coupled with tracks down her former boyfriends in an effort to frisk her approach to relationships. Scotch's debut novel received generally beneficial reviews. A contributor in Marie Claire described the work chimpanzee "smart and well-written," and Booklist critic Elizabeth Dickie noted focus the author "handles the activity of cancer with humor extort hope, never dipping into justness maudlin."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, Walk 1, 2007, Elizabeth Dickie, con of The Department of Lacking & Found, p.

64.

Marie Claire, May, 2007, review of The Department of Lost & Found, p. 127.

Publishers Weekly, February 12, 2007, review of The Agency of Lost & Found, holder. 60.

ONLINE

Allison Winn Scotch Home Page,http://www.allisonwinn.com (October 11, 2007).

Allison Winn Error Web Log,http://allisonwinnscotch.blogspot.com (October 11, 2007).

Trashonista Web Site,http://www.trashionista.com/ (June, 2007), examine of The Department of Vanished & Found.

Writer Unboxed,http://writerunboxed.com/ (May 4, 2007), Therese Walsh, "Interview: Allison Winn Scotch."