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Stephen Shender

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Historical Fiction, Ebooks, Biography

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Herman Wouk

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During a professional writing career spanning 30 years, I worked as a congressional press aide in Washington, D.C., newspaper reporter and editor on California's Central Coast (Monterey and Santa Cruz counties) political speechwriter in Washington, D.C. (Clinton administration), corporate speechwriter in Los Angeles, marketing communications writer in Silicon Valley, and freelancer before retiring in 2003. A native of Chicago's North Side (or "Norside" as true Chicagoans say), I am thankfully a no-longer-suffering, lifelong Chicago Cubs fan.

Once There Was Fire, A Novel of Old Hawaii is my first book. I began writing it on Nov. 16, 2004 and finally published it on Amazon on Dec. 6, 2016.

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