Vera Jane Cook | Red Room Writer Profile

I was born in New York City and grew up amid the eccentricity of my southern and glamorous mother on the Upper West and Upper East Side of Manhattan. An only child, I turned to reading novels at an early age and was deeply influenced by an eclectic group of authors.
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Look at Me, Secret Life of Bees, Wedding in December, Interview With a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Lovely Bones, Missing Mom, She's Come Undone, Lolita, Lady Chatterley's Lover, the Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Sons

Nelson DeMille, Anne Rice, Anita Shreeve, Dean Koontz, Wally Lamb, Jodi Picoult, Toni Morrison,

On The Planet Corporate: Survival Through Fiction
October 10, 2009
- I found myself sitting in the HR department of one of the most famous companies in America. My ice queen soon to be boss wanted me and I knew it. After all, I had graduated from a pseudo impressive university and I looked really good in my Ann Klein suit. Problem was, I’d never worked a day in Corporate America and I had just turned fifty. Hard to teach an old dog new tricks but the bills ...
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Time in Film/Fiction
August 31, 2009
- Time in film is often an artful edit, a story told in film language. When I was in college I had a brilliant professor who taught me to 'read' film, not just see it, or feel it. Film is the great language of symbolism, verisimilitude deconstructed, syntagmatic readings of the psyche in juxtaposition. Propaganda in filmic doses . Montage in the hands of editors and directors who cut into our ...
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Canine Characters
August 24, 2009
- Maybe it’s not so odd that dogs appear in all my books. I grew up with them. They fold into the fabric of my youth like my Aunt Kitty and my Uncle Jack. Memory images squared off in black and white. Color came later, with my Shih Tzu, Charlie. I heard that my grandfather loved German shepherds. Two of them have materialized from the vapors of my creativity. Since my first novel was really ...
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