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My first novel, The Sleepless Nanny is free to download this week on Amazon.com. I wrote this book a long time ago and shelved it for almost as long. Then, with the arrival of the Kindle Direct Publishing platform, I unleashed it on the world in 2011. I wrote about that long lull here. Since …

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Writing The Sleepless Nanny was not easy by any means, but plotting it was –dare I admit?– embarassingly simple in retrospect. The core story was one I had lived as a young au pair in New York City in the late 1980s/early 1990s. The sub-plots and side-stories were a mix of truth and rumors from …

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