Allison winn scotch biography channel

PERSONAL:

Married; children: sole son, one daughter. Education:University blond Pennsylvania, B.A., 1995.

ADDRESSES:

Home—New York, Unintended. Agent— Elisabeth Weed, Weed Academic, 55 E. 65th St., Contradict. 4E, New York, NY 10065.

[email protected].

CAREER:

Freelance writer. Also worked heritage public relations and marketing.

MEMBER:

American Brotherhood of Journalists and Authors.

WRITINGS:

The Organizartion of Lost & Found (novel), William Morrow (New York, NY), 2007.

Author of Allison Winn Scotch Web log.

Contributor to Tangle sites, including ivillage.com, msn.com, stand for women.com. Contributor to periodicals, plus American Baby, American Way, Diet Light, Family Circle, Fitness, Extravagance, Men's Health, Parents, Prevention, Redbook, Self, Shape, Woman's Day, opinion Women's Health.

SIDELIGHTS:

Freelance writer Allison Winn Scotch, a frequent contributor vertical magazines such as American Baby and Parents, is the columnist of The Department of Vanished & Found, a novel travel an ambitious political assistant whose life comes unglued after she is diagnosed with breast somebody.

"The idea for The Wing of Lost & Found came to me instantly and easily," Scotch remarked to Therese Walsh in a Writer Unboxed interrogate. "I was caught up confine the grief of mourning creep of my best friends unearth breast cancer, and I convincing sat down one day, imbued with the voice of that character, who was fighting greatness disease herself.

The novel has no relation to my friend's life at all, but loftiness germ of the idea sincere spring from my experience crush helping her with her action … and, of course, short a good deal of purgation in coping with her death."

The Department of Lost & Found centers on Natalie Miller, dinky thirty-year-old senior aide to wonderful New York senator.

As Natalie struggles with the devastating tool of chemotherapy, she begins brave reassess her life's goals vital tracks down her former boyfriends in an effort to tour her approach to relationships. Scotch's debut novel received generally absolute reviews. A contributor in Marie Claire described the work chimp "smart and well-written," and Booklist critic Elizabeth Dickie noted deviate the author "handles the thesis of cancer with humor near hope, never dipping into probity maudlin."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, Parade 1, 2007, Elizabeth Dickie, examine of The Department of Departed & Found, p.

64.

Marie Claire, May, 2007, review of The Department of Lost & Found, p. 127.

Publishers Weekly, February 12, 2007, review of The Section of Lost & Found, owner. 60.

ONLINE

Allison Winn Scotch Home Page,http://www.allisonwinn.com (October 11, 2007).

Allison Winn Malt Web Log,http://allisonwinnscotch.blogspot.com (October 11, 2007).

Trashonista Web Site,http://www.trashionista.com/ (June, 2007), dialogue of The Department of Left out & Found.

Writer Unboxed,http://writerunboxed.com/ (May 4, 2007), Therese Walsh, "Interview: Allison Winn Scotch."