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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Writing a Series vs. a Stand Alone: A Guest Post by Stefan Kanfer & A Giveaway

As a reader you may have a preference for whether you read books that are part of a series or strictly stand-alone or maybe, like myself, you enjoy both. Have you ever wondered about the writer's opinion, why he or she chooses one format over the other. Today action/adventure author Stefan Kanfer is here to talk about his thoughts on the subject and how he decides. 

Picture Stefan Kanfer is the author of fifteen books, including the bestselling biographies of show business icons: GROUCHO; BALL OF FIRE (Lucille Ball); SOMEBODY (Marlon Brando); and TOUGH WITHOUT A GUN (Humphrey Bogart). He has also written many social histories, among them THE LAST EMPIRE, about the De Beers diamond company, and STARDUST LOST, an account of the rise and fall of the Yiddish Theater in New York.

Kanfer also wrote two novels about World War II and served as the only journalist on the President’s Commission on the Holocaust. He was the first by-lined cinema critic for Time magazine, where he worked as writer and editor for more than two decades. He has been given many writing awards and was named a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He lives in New York where he serves as a columnist for the City Journal of the Manhattan Institute.


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