Allison
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Freelance Writer and Author - www.allisonwinn.com
Female
36 years old
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
United States
Last Login: 1/20/2009
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Allison's Interests
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| General | Running, dogs, reading, writing, movies, tv (sad but true), music. | | Television | The Office, 30 Rock, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Project Runway, The Amazing Race, Scrubs, Entourage | | Books | There are simply too many to name: it feels like every author I've read has served as inspiration in some way. However, perhaps my favorite books in recent memory were Good Grief by Lolly Winston, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer and Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrandt. |
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Allison's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Education: | College graduate |
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Allison's Latest Blog Entry
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Persistence and Patience: Why You Need Both
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Magazine Editors' Dos and Don'ts
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THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, AND WHY...OR HOW THE HELL DOES A BOOK GET SOLD ANYWAY?
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About me:
I'm the author of the novels, The Department of Lost and Found (HarperCollins, 2007) and Time of My Life (Random House, October 2008). When I'm not toiling on fiction, I spend my days eking out articles for a variety men's and women's magazines such as American Baby, American Way, Bride's, Cooking Light, Fitness, Glamour, InStyle Weddings, Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Parents, Prevention, Redbook, Self, Shape, Woman's Day, and Women's Health.
Here's a fun little preview of Time of My Life:
From the outside view, Jillian Westfield has a pitch-perfect life. Her cherubic 18-month old daughter, her wildly successful investment banker husband, a four-bedroom, five-bath, lemon-scented home with landscaping and neighbors to match. But that doesn’t stop her from mulling over the past, from pushing away the “what ifs” that haunt her when she allows them to seep into her consciousness. What if she hadn’t married Henry? What if she hadn’t abandoned her job at the first sign of pregnancy? What if she’d never broken up with Jackson ? What if she answered her mother’s letter? Because underneath the shiny veneer of her life, Jill waddles around in a faltering marriage, brewing resentment, and an air of discontentedness.
But after an ethereal massage in which her therapist releases her blocked chi, she wakes up to discover that she’s been whisked seven years back, back to her old life, her old self, back to the moments in which she made decisions that charted her future course. And now that she’s back, she’s faced with the same roadblocks and obstacles, only this time, armed with hindsight, she can choose a different path and finally lay to rest all of her “what ifs.”
Time of My Life is much more than a story about a real life desperate housewife. Instead, it speaks to so many of our tiny, lingering doubts, the same doubts that send us googling old friends and exes or wistfully pulling out pictures of days gone by. And through Jillian’s journey, in which she rediscovers the mother who abandoned her, reacquaints herself with the strengths she once deemed important, and may literally rewrite her future, we all get a chance to peek inside the windows of our own “what ifs,” and consider if the path we took was the one that has granted us the most happiness.
Read more at: allisonwinn.com and allisonwinnscotch.blogspot.com
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Who I'd like to meet:
Authors, writers, journalists, booksellers...anyone interested in arts, diving into a good book or who wants to add me as a friend or share his or her own story with me.
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