Born: 03/09/1959   Dearborn , MI
Parents: Eugene Joseph and Florence Dorothy Sosnowski
Spouse: NA
Children: NA
Address(es):
Permanent :
6410 Mayfair
Taylor , MI 48180
USA
Contact Information:
Phone : 313-389-1685

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Vamped	Fiction , Horror	Adult	New York : Downtown Press	2005
	Rapture - U.S. Hardcover edition. Also published in UK and in PB	Fiction	Adult	Random House	1996
	- Numerous articles in periodicals

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "To what do I attribute my success? Stubbornness, mainly, and a finely honed sense of denial--both of which proved very important when it came to dealing with the literally hundreds of rejection slips that came before my supposedly "sudden" success. That, and a lot of hard work, not only in the writing, but more importantly, in the rewriting. I rewrote my first novel a half dozen times in three years and threw out over three undred pages in t he process. This was all done while I was also holding down a full-time job with the Environmental Protection Agency in Ann Arbor (which, among other things, meant a 75 mile, round-trip commute every week day). The whole thing was pretty grueling and all throughout the process, I worried that I wouldn't be up to the task. I also knew, however, that I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try. And so I pushed forward, devoting my evenings and weekends and my too-few vacation days to the project until it was finished. I should mention that Congress helped at the tail-end of the project. When Newt Gingrich and company decided to shut down the government in late 1995, i was in the last stages of revising Rapture for publication, and the extra free time came in handy. Pretty ironic, huh--especially given that partricular Congress' attitude toward arts in general."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Author will accept inquiries for engagements. "Regarding answering letters from students/teachers, I'll consider it on a case-by-case basis. It's really a matter of timing.

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Name	Date
Arts Foundation of Michigan grant recipient	1995
First place, Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize (judge: Barbara Kingsolver)	1994

MeLCat Links:
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