This site is designed to answer the questions and quandaries of aspiring authors. To learn more about how to polish and publish your work, click on the books in the bookshelf above.

Look for my new novel, The First Stone. Clive Cussler raves, "The First Stone is a remarkable story by a remarkable writer. Filled with intrigue, beautifully blended with friendships and love of family. Judith Kelman's characters are warm and wonderful."

My last novel, The Session, is out now in paperback reprint.

Read a sample chapter here

The New York Times Bestselling author Linda Fairstein calls it: "Engaging, stylish and sophisticated. Haunting suspense." To research the book, I visited New York's infamous Rikers Island penitentiary, the largest penal colony in the world. I interviewed prison personnel and inmates. Best of all, when I'd collected the material I needed, I was able to leave!

Look for my new novel, Backward in High Heels, available online at Amazon.com & BarnesAndNoble.com.

This one is a major departure for me, a humorous story I hope you'll enjoy as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Susan Isaacs, Best selling author of Compromising Positions and Anywhere I Hang My Hat, called the book, "A delicious, joyous novel full of sophistication and wit, one that might have come from, say, Noel Coward or George S. Kaufman had they been women. A great success!"

Dr. Peter Scardino's Prostate Book, which I co-wrote with the chair of Surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, a world-renowned expert on prostate cancer, was published in April to rave reviews. The Economist said: "Buy this book for every man you know!" Here, men and the women who love them can find the comprehensive, approachable, balanced information they need to stay healthy and to regain their health when problems occur in the prostate.

I'm thrilled to report that Summer of Storms won the 2002 Mary Higgins Clark Award for best suspense novel.

For the "Mr. Spoonhead" napkin fold in Chapter 20 in Every Step You Take, click here.

Tip: Concentrate on writing, not publishing or getting an agent, until your work is finished, polished and revised.

For other useful tips, check out Writers' Tips & Resources (including a new section on writing query letters).

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