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Jill Wisoff

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New York City, The United States

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Fiction, Young Adult, Paranormal

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Jill Wisoff is a songwriter, screenwriter, and actress, and a graduate of Bennington College and the New School MFA program in Writing: Fiction. She composed score and songs for the Sundance award-winning film Welcome to the Dollhouse.

You may have seen her as Johnny Thunders' bassist touring with the Oddballs in Europe, the Midwest, and Canada; or starring opposite Todd Solondz in his first film Fear Anxiety & Depression.

Shelter Island, her debut novel, and its sequel, are inspired by the lives of musicians and their families she's known, particularly from the original East Village punk scene. These will be followed by a paranormal novel to be published in the fall of 2026.
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Shelter Island still in top 3!

More than two weeks later Shelter Island: A January Hoolihan and Crisscross Adventure, is still holding in the top 3 of new releases in the Amazon category Young Adult social issues: family ebooks.

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The Player in the Game: Book 3 The Alexander Wolfe Series

by Karen Baugh Menuhin (Goodreads Author)

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The Rumor

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