Author Archive: Marilyn Simon Rothstein

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Something to Laugh About: Six Ways to Add Humor to Your Novel

Something to Laugh About: Six Ways to Add Humor to Your Novel

By Marilyn Simon Rothstein Author of Lift and Separate and Husbands and Other Sharp Objects 1. Start with a sense of humor. No joke. Seriously. You either have a sense of humor—or you don’t. If you rarely laugh—or see the amusing side in anything, you should not force humor into your work. This includes any […]

March 7, 2021 | By | Reply More
Drop Your Drawers

Drop Your Drawers

I started writing in third grade. I went to Public School 173 in Flushing, New York. Flushing is a horrible name for what was a pleasant neighborhood of brick homes with small backyards. The street on which I grew up had just two ethnic groups: Orthodox Jews and Conservative Jews. The important thing about P.S. […]

October 22, 2017 | By | Reply More