Judith Deborah's Blog

This week on International Edition with Levy & Counsell, Dr. Adam Woolfe of the Institut Curie in Paris discusses the human genome.

Herewith the second part of Claudette’s interview with me about the writing of A Falling Knife.

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by the delightful Claudette Kulkarni, a Dutch blogger/translator/writer/Mom/all-around terrific person. Part one of the interview has just appeared on her site. In this portion I talk primarily about the writing process and about self-publication. Please come by and check it out.

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by the delightful Claudette Kulkarni, a Dutch blogger/translator/writer/Mom/all-around terrific person. Part one of the interview has just appeared on her site. In this portion I talk primarily about the writing process and about self-publication. Please come by and check it out.

Kirkus Reviews has published a review of A Falling Knife that has left me floating a few inches off the ground. A sample:

High-stakes financial dealings, promising biotech developments, corrupt SEC investigations, unanswered paternity questions and a shocking deathbed letter are all part of the fast-paced action. Surprising plot twists accelerate toward an unexpected and satisfying conclusion. Deborah has a fresh, distinctive writing style that is showcased to best effect in her witty dialogue…Deborah's characters, portrayed with realistic complexity and depth, experience both the perils and the prizes of such a hazardous endeavor.

An enjoyable mystery as sophisticated and energetic as the Wall Street characters it features.

The review is posted on Kirkus's site; please click the link to read the whole thing.

In honor of the holiday of love, here's a quiz I put together about things that make people happy.

Herewith, for your delectation: a slightly unconventional Valentine's Day survey.

Pinnion Web Survey

I have a weird love for quizzes and surveys — I can't resist them, no matter what the subject. It occurred to me that it might be as much fun to write them as to take them. With that in mind, I'm experimenting with a quiz plugin I found. If it works nicely, I'm going to start writing quizzes as a regular feature.

So, without further ado, here is a this-or-that poll I whipped up. We'll start off easy and get a little more off the wall as we go along. (Those of you who know me know that that's basically how I roll.)

Give it a whirl, and let me know if the system worked on your end. (This quiz thing is still in beta, as the kids say.) And remember, don't think about the answers too hard. As Nancy Reagan might put it, just click.

Pinnion Web Survey

UPDATE: Results! Some of you pointed out that it's a little disappointing to finish a quiz and get no insights into what your results say about your personality, so I will do better on that score in future.

The overall results of this quiz indicate that you guys are predominantly coke- and wine-drinking, classical-music-listening fans of summer sports who recoil from Marmite (for shame!) and prefer the quiet and peaceful to the loud and raucous. You're mostly Macheads, and the majority of you still prefer books with pages — although the Kindle does have a solid fanbase. About two-thirds of you would rather read a book than see the movie, and almost all of you prefer that the book be funny. You're split right down the middle on whether you'd rather read it at home or away, or in a city or the countryside.

Daniel Craig trounced Daniel Day Lewis by a two-to-one margin, but Cate Blanchett only just edged out Kate Winslet, and Faulkner beat Hemingway by an even narrower margin. A third of you opted for L.A. over New York (a better showing than I expected, to be honest) and you came out sixty-forty in favor of arts over sciences. More than twice as many of you want to be crooned to by Bing Crosby than by Barry White.

I've got another quiz on deck, and it'll be a little more involved than this one. Please pop back and have a go, okay?

I have a weird love for quizzes and surveys — I can't resist them, no matter what the subject. It occurred to me that it might be as much fun to write them as to take them. With that in mind, I'm experimenting with a quiz plugin I found. If it works nicely, I'm going to start writing quizzes as a regular feature.

So, without further ado, here is a this-or-that poll I whipped up. We'll start off easy and get a little more off the wall as we go along. (Those of you who know me know that that's basically how I roll.)

Give it a whirl, and let me know if the system worked on your end. (This quiz thing is still in beta, as the kids say.) And remember, don't think about the answers too hard. As Nancy Reagan might put it, just click.

Pinnion Web Survey

Pop on over to Dixon Rice’s outift, Wredheaded Writer, where I’m guest-blogging on the joys of audiobooks. See you there!

Pop on over to Dixon Rice's outift, Wredheaded Writer, where I'm guest-blogging on the joys of audiobooks. See you there!