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“Your Book Is Your Hook!” – Fiction Novelist Turned Publisher

March 30, 2010 by

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Jill Shure, a New York native, majored in Language and Fine Arts at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After graduating, Shure moved to Washington, D.C., and worked on Capitol Hill.  After three years, Shure headed for Southern California where she attended graduate school in San Diego for teaching. She then pursued writing and worked with screenwriter Howard Browne and later on with novelist Joan Oppenhiemer.

Shure has written several novels from Young Adult to a Psychological Suspense Thriller. Her first script, The Levy’s Tomb, was optioned by a 20th Century Fox executive. Shure became a finalist in both the Austin Heart of Film Screen Writing Competition and twice in The Academy of Motion Pictures’ Nicholl Fellowship. Shure also studied screen writing at UCLA, and with such notable gurus as Syd Field and Linda Seger.

Her fiction harvested awards at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference and twice at the San Diego State Writers Conferences from editors at Berkeley Putnam and Harper Collins. Jill’s writings appear in The Love of Friends (Berkeley Putnam 1997). In 2002, she won the prestigious Ben Franklin Award for Popular Fiction for her novel, Night Jazz.

Jill is currently active in Sisters-In-Crime, Scripteasers, The Southwest Writers Association, Women in Film, and The National Writers’ Association, among others. An avid supporter of animal rights, Jill is a benefactor at The Helen Woodward Center in Fairbanks Ranch, California.

Night Glitter is the second book in the Jeri Devlin trilogy.

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About Jennifer S. Wilkov

Radio show Host Jennifer S. Wilkov is a #1 international best-selling award-winning author and the creator of the From Thought to Sales in 90 Days™ Book Process. Jennifer has supported first time and seasoned authors and writers with the writing, getting published and marketing of their book ideas and projects as well as the building of their platform to raise their visibility to readers and the media.

She is also an award-winning freelance writer (2009 Silver Eddie Award for an article featured in Marie Claire April, 2009 issue) who has been quoted and whose writings have appeared in national magazines and newspapers.

Jennifer has sat on Boards of Advisors and spoken at major industry events including the New York Center for Independent Publishing, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, RT Booklovers Convention, Writers for New Orleans, Self-Publishing Book Expo and BookExpo America.

Through the years, Jennifer’s works have been endorsed by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Robert Allen, Barbara De Angelis, Treehugger.com, publicists, literary agents, publishers, many in the field of green book publishing, her martial arts Senseis in Shintaido and Aikido, and many more.

Jennifer is also the Host and Executive Producer of the Your Book Is Your Hook! Show on WomensRadio. Your Book Is Your Hook! is designed to serve and support authors, writers and readers of books and other writing mediums. It showcases industry professionals and authors who share insights, experiences and wisdom about writing, marketing and publishing your book and beyond including Hollywood film, television, radio and more..