Karen Newman is a smart savvy executive whose soft-on-crime inclinations are in stiking contrast to her hard-headed business acumen — until violence strikes a much-loved member of her family and sends her life spinning out of control... »More

Ayn Rand: My Fiction-Writing Teacher

The fascinating memoir detailing Ms. Holzer's mentor- protégé relationship with the author of Atlas Shrugged, including a selection of Holzer's rare short stories and writing exercises... »More

Aid and Comfort

The documented case for treason in Jane Fonda's 1972 visit to Hanoi — including her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes, and propaganda broadcasts toward U.S. troops... »More

Every novelist, it seems, has a mentor, dead or alive. A man or a woman whose literary accomplishments and personal influence lit the fire within and kept it burning through trial, error and insensitive reviews.

Ayn Rand was very much alive during the period of my life when I first considered transitioning out of the practice of law into full-time writing.

It was during the 1960s, roughly six years after my husband and I had graduated from New York University Law School, that we.... »More

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You can contact Erika Holzer at the following e-mail address, which is masked to protect it from spam-bots:

erika.holzer -at- erikaholzer -dot- com