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Bio for author Carol Hoenig

Look for Carol's book, The Author's Guide to Planning Book Events

Carol Hoenig's novel, WITHOUT GRACE, has been given the Silver Medal for Book of the Year 2005 by ForeWord Magazine and First Place prize by the DIY Book Festival (2006.) Carol's essays, articles, book reviews and short stories appear in a wide number of publications. Carol blogs for www.whereIstand.com and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/. Carol covers topics concerning politics, culture, the publishing industry, the writing life and opinion pieces. You may also read her essays at www.boomercafe.com. Carol also contributed to PUTTING YOUR PASSION INTO PRINT, written by Arielle Eckstudt & David Henry Sterry. (Workman, July 2005)

Ariana Huffington invited Carol to contribute to Huffington's ON BEING FEARLESS, which was released in September '06. Carol also freelances as a publicist, editor and publishing consultant. She was a Marketing National Events Specialist for eleven years for a major book chain, having worked with major publishers and a wide range of authors. Carol was the President of First Chapter Magazine. She has participated in several panel discussions, as either a moderator or panelist, on a number of topics. Carol also spoke to the Long Island Chapter of the American Association of University Women about her novel and the writing process. She spoke at BookExpo 2006 in Washington, DC about writing, marketing and self-publishing.

Carol is an Advisory Council Member for the Small Press Center, recently renamed The New York Center for Independent Publishing, in Manhattan. She is a member of the International Women's Writing Guild and the Women's National Book Association.