Book Giveaway & Author Interview: A Short History of a Tall Jew by Dennis Danziger

Welcome to Author Dennis Danziger


Bio:

Dennis Danziger is also the author of Daddy, The Diary of an Expectant Father. He writes a regular guest column for the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-danziger) and his essays have appeared in Premiere and Education Week. He lives in L.A. with his wife, the writer Amy Friedman. Please visit his website for more info: http://www.dennisdanziger.com.

Interview

Please tell us in one sentence only, why we should read your book.
It will make you laugh aloud or your money back. Really.

What inspired you to want to become a writer?
In my teens, I read Art Buchwald’s columns and Philip Roth’s fiction. Before reading their work, I didn’t know anyone could be that funny, and smart, on paper.


What is one book everyone should read?
Good-night Moon, Cat in the Hat, and You Can’t Go Home Again.

What was your favorite book when you were a child/teen?
Catcher in the Rye.

What is your dream cast for your book?
Paul Rudd as Philip and Kyra Sedgewick at Helena

What is your favorite quote?
Never, never, never give up. – Winston Churchill

Who are your favorite authors of all time?
Studs Terkel, Amy Friedman, and S.J. Perlman

Finish the sentence––one book I wish I had written is....
The Book of Deuteronomy. Imagine getting something so dry and filled with rules published and so well read. Go figure.


Favorite places to travel?
San Francisco, East Berlin and Pismo Beach.

What's the best writing advice anyone has ever given you?
If you write one page a day, at the end of the year, you’ve written a book.

A Short History of a Tall Jew by Dennis Danziger

Philip Lachman, a 39-year-old public high school teacher, dad, and divorcee, is looking for true love. More specifically, he is looking for a new wife who will put up with his teenage son, a budding communist who's into designer shoes, his teenage daughter who dreams of being the queen of an oil-rich country, and his ex-wife who's determined to make his life miserable. And it gets worse from there. Philip has no leads, no numbers, no idea where to begin. But how hard can it possibly be? Any kind, caring, competent woman will do. So long as she's not an actress. But in glittery, glamorous, how-much-money-are-you-worth L.A., Philip–who barely eeks out a living as a public high school teacher––soon finds himself on the ride of his life.
A SHORT HISTORY OF A TALL JEW is a beautifully crafted, charming and laugh-out-loud page-turner that takes on both the trivialities and truths of life, love, religion, and the public education system with a wink of the eye. It's a book for any reader who's ever struggled with the vagaries of the human heart, or maybe just being human.

Giveaway Details:
1 paperback copy
Open to US only
Ends 10/23

New Year's Reading Resolution Giveaway

Welcome to the New Year's Reading Resolutions Hop hosted by Reading Angel, Pure Imagination and Candace's Book Blog!

Each participating blog is offering a book related giveaway and we are all linked up together so you can easily hop from one giveaway to another.  The hop runs from January 3rd through January 9th.
I have 2 great giveaways for you today. There will be 2 winners.

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Giveaway #1

$12 gift certificate to buy books. (Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com or any other online retailer of your choice that sells books and has a way for me to send you a $12 online gift certificate).
Or if you live Internationally and can't use a US gift certificate or would prefer to choose a book then you can choose a book of your choice from the Book Depository up to $12 US.

Giveaway #2
A book from one of my favorite authors, Marcia Lynn McClure.
Open to US only.

The Touch of Sage:
Following the death of her parents, Sage Willows had lovingly nurtured her younger sisters through childhood. She loved her sisters. She’d seen each one married, and was glad to see them settled and happy. Furthermore, she held no resentment at never having found a good man of her own to settle down with. Yet, regret is different than resentment—and far more haunting.
Still, Sage found as much joy as was allowed a lonely young woman—in being proprietress of Willows’ Boardinghouse, and in the companionship of the four beloved widow-women boarding there. Until, that is, the devilishly handsome Rebel Lee Mitchell appeared. It seemed Reb Mitchel instantly and forever vanquished Sage’s feigned contentment.
Dark, mysterious and secretly wounded, Reb Mitchell utterly captured Sage’s lonely heart. Nevertheless, to Sage Williows, the powerfully attractive cowboy—admired and coveted by every female in his path—seemed entirely unobtainable. How could a weathered, boardinghouse-proprietress resigned to spinsterhood, ever hope to hold the attention of such a man? And knowing she couldn’t—would Sage Willows simply sink deeper into the bleak loneliness she’d secreted for so long?

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