Chuckerman Makes a Movie
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A few special shout outs to Randi Olin and Lauren Apfel at Motherwell Magazine, for their loyal support of my work; Nan Doyal for graciously sharing her publishing knowledge with me; Jen Unter of The Unter Agency for her generous advice and assistance; Julie Kaplan of Julie Kaplan Photography, for making me look so much better in my author photo than I do in real life; Randee Newman, for her willingness to read the earliest, unedited draft; all my girlfriends, for always sharing and liking and listening; and to my mother, for her dedicated and complimentary promotion of my work, her honest opinion, and among other things, the Adidas.
About the Author
Author photo © Julie Kaplan Photography
Francie Arenson Dickman has been using her family as the source of writing material her whole life. Her personal essays have appeared in publications such as The Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Today Parents, Motherwell Magazine, and Brain, Child Magazine, among others. She lives in the same suburb of Chicago in which she grew up, with her husband, twin daughters, and dog, Pickles. She received her BA from the University of Michigan and her JD from The George Washington University School of Law.
Selected Titles from She Writes Press
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A Tight Grip: A Novel about Golf, Love Affairs, and Women of a Certain Age by Kay Rae Chomic. $16.95, 978-1-938314-76-6. As forty-six-year-old golfer Jane “Par” Parker prepares for her next tournament, she experiences a chain of events that force her to reevaluate her life.
Arboria Park by Kate Tyler Wall. $16.95, 978-1631521676. Stacy Halloran’s life has always been centered around her beloved neighborhood, a 1950s-era housing development called Arboria Park—so when a massive highway project threaten the Park in the 2000s, she steps up to the task of trying to save it.
Tzippy the Thief by Pat Rohner. $16.95, 978-1-63152-153-9. Tzippy has lived her life as a selfish, materialistic woman and mother. Now that she is turning eighty, there is not an infinite amount of time left—and she wonders if she’ll be able to repair the damage she’s done to her family before it’s too late.
Warming Up by Mary Hutchings Reed. $16.95, 978-1-938314-05-6. Unemployed and depressed former musical actress Cecilia Morrison decides to start therapy, hoping it will get her out of her slump—but ultimately it’s a teen who cons her out of sixty bucks, not her analyst, who changes her life.
Start With the Backbeat by Garinè B. Isassi. $16.95, 978-1-63152-041-9. When post-punk rocker Jill Dodge finally gets the promotion she’s been waiting for in the spring of 1989, she finds herself in the middle of a race to find a gritty urban rapper for her New York record label.
Wishful Thinking by Kamy Wicoff. $16.95, 978-1-63152-976-4. A divorced mother of two gets an app on her phone that lets her be in more than one place at the same time, and quickly goes from zero to hero in her personal and professional life—but at what cost?