Gwen Cooper's Blog
Gwen Cooper
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Birthday
- October 24
- Bio
- Gwen Cooper is the author of the novel "Diary of a South Beach Party Girl," which was published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment in April 2007 and received positive reviews in numerous publications including People, Entertainment Weekly, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Gotham, the New York Daily News, the Boston Herald, The State, and the Sacramento Bee. Chauncey Mabe of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel hailed it as, “a novel of emotional grit, psychological depth, and narrative confidence. For pop fiction, this is as good as it gets.”
Gwen spent five years working in non-profit administration, marketing, and fundraising. She coordinated and led direct-service volunteer activities on behalf of organizations such as Pet Rescue, the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind, the Miami Rescue Mission, Best Buddies, Habitat for Humanity, the Daily Bread Food Bank, and Family Resource Center (an organization providing emergency shelter for abused and neglected children).
Gwen moved to New York City in 2001 and is writing her second book: "Homer's Odyssey: Tales of an Eyeless Wondercat," which will be published by Random House in September of '09.
She lives on Manhattan’s east side with her husband, Laurence. She also lives with her three perfect cats—Scarlett, Vashti, and Homer—who aren’t impressed with any of it.
MY RECENT POSTS
- On Superstitions, Animal
Cruelty, and a General Rant
March 28, 2010 11:19PM - A Canticle for Vashowitz
January 23, 2010 07:21PM - And It Only Took Four Hours to
Get This Shot...
September 08, 2009 07:38PM - The Day That Is The Day
August 24, 2009 08:22AM - "Ballparking" the Debate, and
Election Day Predictions
November 01, 2008 08:20AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Laurie--
For
the last time (sorry! I like
you lots, but I do get
frustrated
that
p…”
October 11, 2010 06:43PM - “Is the deal now that the
author leaves the first
comment to
get the post
"in…”
March 28, 2010 11:26PM - “Hazzah and kudos!!!
:-)”
March 12, 2010 07:47PM - “Thank you, all of you,
for your incredibly kind words
of
support. Vashti is
fina…”
January 31, 2010 01:46PM - “Yes, it sucks to have to
borrow money from your son.
But it's
not like you're
ta…”
January 24, 2010 11:15AM
Gwen Cooper's Links
On Superstitions, Animal Cruelty, and a General Rant
Two things happened today that infuriated me. Granted, I'm on edge these days--between Vashti, the book proposal I'm working on that alternately thrills and terrifies me (good news--it's another cat book! but a novel this time!), and life in general in these scary times...let's just say t… Read full post »
A Canticle for Vashowitz
Yesterday morning, I left Vashti at the veterinary hospital where she will spend the next several days receiving intensive treatment for her kidneys, which are failing. There’s a range of scenarios for her eventual prognosis, some very positive and others, obviously, far less so.… Read full post »
People ask all the time how Homer is coping with his new-found fame, and I always answer that, for the most part, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know. It’s true that he’s been getting a lot more treats lately (every time the book hits a milestone, my husband… Read full post »
It was just about ten months ago when I first posted a story on Open Salon called “Night of the Hunter,” about the time when my cat Homer—who I’d adopted some twelve years earlier as an abandoned and unwanted blind kitten—chased off an intruder who turned up in my bedroo… Read full post »
"Ballparking" the Debate, and Election Day Predictions
Back in the days when I was super active with my high school debate program, there was a winning strategy regularly employed called “ballparking.” In a debate round, one debater takes the affirmative position and one debater takes the negative. Technically speaking, both sides/… Read full post »
Author's Note: Last week, I posted a story about Homer, the youngest of my three cats, who I adopted when he was three weeks old. He'd been abandoned at my vet's office; a severe eye infection had resulted in the surgical removal of both of his eyes, and nobody wanted… Read full post »
They say the most dangerous man is the one with nothing left to lose. Enter John McCain.
McCain’s call to Barack Obama this week to suspend their campaigns and postpone Friday’s debate has been considered from every conceivable angle: Bold leadership or political panderin… Read full post »
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