: About Me

Carol Hoenig's novel, WITHOUT GRACE, has been awarded the Silver Medal for Book of the Year 2005 by ForeWord Magazine and given First Place for Fiction by the DIY Book Festival. Jada Press also gave her novel honorable mention. Carol's essays, articles, book reviews and short stories appear in a wide number of publications. Carol blogs for The Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/ and Where I Stand at http://www.whereistand.com/CarolHoenig, covering politics, culture, the publishing industry and the writing life. Carol also contributed to PUTTING YOUR PASSION INTO PRINT, written by Arielle Eckstudt & David Henry Sterry. (Workman, July 2005) Arianna Huffington also invited Carol to contribute to ON BECOMING FEARLESS, released in the fall of 2006.

In between working on her third novel, Carol's book, An Author's Guide to Planning Book Events: Everything You Need To Know from an Author In-the-Know, will be released early 2007. Carol freelances as a writer, editor and publishing consultant.

Carol is on The New York Center for Independent Publishing, (formerly the Small Press Center) in Manhattan. She is a member of the International Women's Writing Guild and the Women's National Book Association.

My passion is ...

Writing

My childhood ambition ...

Actress

My favorite memory ...

Giving birth to my son and going to the airport twice to pick up my adopted daughters

Why I write ...

I have to

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Everything

My first job ...

babysitter

My best moment ...

My book launch for "Without Grace"

My inspiration ...

life

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