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J.E. Fishman

J.E. Fishman benefits from a short attention span.  It has led him from Doubleday editor to literary agency founder, from dot-com entrepreneur to successful retailer, from non-fiction ghost writer to novelist.  At Doubleday, he acquired and edited a range of non-fiction, from sports to business to narrative non-fiction to true crime.  His literary agency, The Bedford Book Works (later sold to Dystel Goderich Literary Agency) represented personalities as diverse as Howard Schultz of Starbucks and Kweisi Mfume of the NAACP, as well as writers from prestigious publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and the San Jose Mercury News.  The dot-com he founded, Subrights.com, crashed in pieces during the technology bust, but he learned a lot.  The retail operation he ran with his wife, Salem Saddlery, grew by more than 2000 percent and was purchased by regional chain Beval Saddlery.  He is co-author of All I Need to Know I Learned from My Horse (Doubleday) and Life Is a Series of Presentations (Simon & Schuster), and is a communications consultant for Acorn Energy (NASDAQ: ACFN).  After all these years and endeavors, his attention has returned to his first love: storytelling.  His recently completed thriller, Primacy, is available through Paul Bresnick Literary Agency, and his genre-busting mystery, Cadaver Blues, can be found in weekly serialization at The Nervous Breakdown.  Also in the works are the thriller The Summit, the satirical screenplay (with actor Tom Teti) The Wisest Wiseguy, and the stage play Home Game, among others.  He divides his time between Wilmington, Delaware, and New York City. Follow him on Twitter: JEFISHMAN and his blog.



 Recent Work by J.E. Fishman
FICTION »
Cadaver Blues: Chapter 23
Broke...meet DEAD broke. Mindy is full of surprises, including some leafy thing. Chapter 23 of CADAVER BLUES, J.E. Fishman's genre-busting serial mystery, a TNB exclusive.
MEMOIR »
My Lacunae
A Facebook friend request conjures lost memories of J.E. Fishman's dead mother
ESSAYS »
Hair Today
Surrounded by people who change like glaciers, J.E. Fishman wonders what it means when the hair follicles of loves ones go into unaccustomed overdrive.
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Age of Innocence
J.E. Fishman reflects on that precious moment in time when a child knows everything about how the world works -- except all the dirty stuff.
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At Loggerheads
J.E. Fishman attends a hatch -- or boil -- of baby loggerhead turtles on the beach in North Carolina and observes a thing or two about people.
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Fool’s Gold
From a few lemonade-stand dollars to the souvenir hunt of a child, J.E. Fishman learns what a worthless rock can teach about the value of life.
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The Prisoner of Bedford Hills
J.E. Fishman undertakes a serious meditation on the suicide of a complex friend.
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Better to Reign?
Is it the fate of humanity to live forever on a planet getting increasingly hotter? J.E. Fishman contemplates hell on Earth.
ESSAYS »
Dramatic Entrance
In his inaugural TNB essay, J.E. Fishman considers the meaning of a hidden door in the historic house where he lives, and wonders what it says about the man who built it and his flair for the dramatic.
   
   
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