Margery Flax
Glad you could come. Always a pleasure to meet someone new, especially someone interested in writers of mysteries, which I obviously am. (Not very good writing there, but have patience, mahybe it will improve.)
I began my Jake Wanderman Mystery Series by having a retired English teacher and Shakespeare maven as my hero. Shakespeare is also my hero so the two worked well together.
The first book was called SCRAMBLED EGGS, the eggs in question being Faberge's. What makes the story go is that the eggs were stolen by the Russian Mafia. That book came out in 2005. It took me a while to finish second one. That's coming out in November 2008 and is called DEADLY BONES. The bones were once contained in an ossuary in Jerusalem. They are no longer in the ossuary because thousands of years have passed, but they were presumed to belong to James, brother of Jesus.
It's great fun writing this stuff because it involves a lot of research and I love discovering new and interesting things.
If you have the time and inclination, why not checj my storioes out.
BIO OF ROBERT BORIS RISKIN
Many fiction writers have long been urged to get out of their ivory towers and research the real world for their material. Boris Riskin did better than that; he went out and actually worked for a living. A Brooklyn native, Riskin traveled the world. He lived in France twice, once on a honeymoon, again to attend the Sorbonne, both times to write … and write. After studying at the University of Michigan with playwright Kenneth Rowe, Riskin supported himself and family at a variety of jobs -- from dishwasher to factory worker, busboy to a hawker of low price garments for high fashion women. All the while experiencing first hand the stuff of the human condition that feeds his writing.
Mr. Riskin’s work has appeared over the years in a variety of literary magazines, including The New Yorker. Long an avid reader of mystery-thrillers, he finally decided to write one. The crackling result was Scrambled Eggs (2005), a taut thriller that introduced a salty new reluctant sleuth called Jake Wanderman, and an exciting new crime novelist called Boris Riskin.
Riskin now lives and writes in Sag Harbor, at the eastern end of New York’s Long Island, where the bay and ocean are close enough to touch he says, and the air is alive with stories. Jake Wanderman lives there too, back in action now as the Shakespeare-quoting anti-hero of Mr. Riskin’s new autopsy of the art world, Deadly Bones (2007).
> Please visit his website:
> _www.robertborisriskin.com_
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Boris Riskin has been writing fiction most of his adult life. He went to the University of Michigan where he studied playwriting with Kenneth Rowe, but switched to fiction shortly thereafter. Trying to be a writer he supported himself by working at a variety of jobs from dishwasher to busboy to factory worker to selling discounted clothes to high fashion women. He has published short stories in The New Yorker and a variety of literary magazines. A lover of mystery-thrillers, he decided to try writing one. It was called “Scrambled Eggs,” and featured Jake Wanderman, retired English teacher and Shakespeare maven, who is also the hero of “Deadly Bones.”
A Brooklyn native, he has traveled the world. He lived in France for a few years. One of those years was spent studying at the Sorbonne. The other was on a honeymoon. But New York is where his heart is, as well as family, friends, the food, and the ocean.
He now lives in Sag Harbor at the eastern end of Long Island where the bay and ocean are nearby and the air is filled with creativity.
Please visit his website: www.robertborisriskin.com.
See MYSpace site: http://www1.myspace.com/r...
