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.

The Afterlife of Louis Brown

Louis Brown, a young man who had so much to give to the world.

This Boston Globe Magazine cover story appeared in the June 2, 2002 issue. It was a difficult story to write because of the wrenching subject matter and the intensity of emotions surrounding it.

The story is a profile of 15-year-old Louis Brown. Louis was a talented high school sophomore who was murdered on December 23, 1993. Ironically, he was on his way to an afternoon Christmas party for a group he belonged to called Teens Against Gang Violence. Caught in a bullet shooting fray by dueling gang members, he died a few blocks from his neighborhood train station in Boston.

A year after his death his parents, Tina and Joseph Chery, founded the Louis D. Brown Institute for Peace. The Institute offers innovative literacy programs for Boston schools as well as support groups for families who are victims of violent crime.

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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