Selected works, excerpts and previews

Business Memoir
Time to Make the Donuts
In hardcover, Kindle, and downloadable to your computer from Amazon
Short Story
Shoreline
Sample it
Novels underway
Night Swim, a novel
16-year-old Sarah, a gifted singer from an upper middle class Jewish family, tells the story of her family following the tragic loss of her mother. Set in suburban Boston in the late 1960s.
Body Chemistry, a novel
College grad, Elizabeth Gold, learns she has contracted a fatal illness called Aplastic Anemia. The difficult news sends her on a search for a cure, but she quickly learns the options are high risk. In the process she faces ambiguities in family relationships, a failing romance, and an influx of caretakers, including an eccentric faith healer and an entrepreneurial apartment mate. A novel about the healing power of love.
Profiles
The Afterlife of Louis Brown, A Boston Globe Magazine cover story. June 2002
How the murder of a Boston teenager became a force for change.
Memoir
The Quiet Revolution
A personal story about aplastic anemia.
This exquisite watercolor is by Ruth Cobb, whose work can be found in top tier museums such as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Contact the Judi Rotenberg Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston for more info.

Stories, excerpts--for you to sample


Solo, a short story and winner of Wilderness House Literary Review Chekhov Prize

The After Party, published in Eclectica

Guest column and novel excerpt featured on DearReader.com, an online book club that's 360,000 members strong. Founded by Suzanne Beecher.

The Huffington Post for Fearless Voices--Mother/​Daughters also linked to iVillage.
Woman With Birds in Her Chest in Elixir magazine

O, The Oprah Magazine. My article about DearReader.
Panels

Panelist and moderator at Backspace Writing Conferences in NYC; 2006, 2007, 2008.

Guest author, Ninth annual Brookline Library Foundation Winter Gala.

Panelist: “Creating Paradise” a panel discussion moderated by Brookline painter Manika Srivastav, exploring the creative process.

Quick Links to my stories, blog, and articles

Confessions of A Hermit Crab
My blog that explores the secrets of home.
Solo, a short story
Awarded a Chekhov Prize for Excellence in Fiction by the editors of Wilderness House Literary Review
Shoreline, a short story
Laura moves out of her house and into a summer cottage to reconsider the viability of her marriage. (Available on Kindle or download on your PC )
Night Swim, a short story, first published in MiPOesias
Nominated by the editors for the 2009 Million Writers Award
Saving the Fish Tank, a short story
Night Train, issue 9.1
LitPark's fabulous founder, Susan Henderson, interviews me.
We discuss my writing, my role as fiction editor at Agni magazine, my writing, and how I survived a fatal illness.
Design New England Magazine cover story
This Vermont cottage will inspire you for its architecture, art and design.
Agni magazine, one the country's best.
I interview Ha Jin about language and writing.
NPR interview with John Ydstie (click on this link, then scroll down to William Rosenberg)
Boston Globe Living Arts feature
Bestselling author, Doug Preston, is trapped in his own, real-life thriller.
Boston Globe feature on International Thriller Writers
Gary Braver, Joseph Finder, Chris Keane, Gayle Lynds, Chris Mooney, David Morrell
Boston Globe feature on MJ Rose and lit blogs
Believe it or not, just a few years ago I needed to explain what a blog was!! Those were the days.
The Boston Globe feature on C. Michael Curtis, Senior editor of The Atlantic
Poets & Writers article on Don Lee, former editor of Ploughshares
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