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Tonya Plank

Tonya Plank

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TonyaPlank worked as a criminal appeals attorney in New York City for many years. A formercompetitive ballroom dancer and a longtime balletomane, she writes the danceblog, “Swan Lake Samba Girl,”which has been lauded by James Wolcottof Vanity Fair and Terry Teachout ofthe Wall Street Journal and has beencited in those publications as well as CNN.com, the New York Times ArtsBeat blog,and the Washington Post. Her lawreview articles have been cited in several books. Swallow, her first novel, won a gold medal for best fiction set in the northeast in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards, the gold medal for women's fiction in the 2010 Living Now Book Awards and was a finalist in the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards. She currently lives in New York and is working on her second novel, a legal / urban drama.

Breaking Through the Spiral Ceiling: An American Woman Becomes a DNA Scientist

Breaking Through the Spiral Ceiling: An American Woman Becomes a DNA Scientist

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Laura Hoopes takes you along as she tries to enter science in the 1960's in the post-Sputnik science education frenzy, only to find doors closed to women.  She persists, makes a career of molecular gerontology and insists on making space for marriage and children in her life.  This inspiring read says, "Yes, you can," to women who have dreams of their own.

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Media Links

Vanity Fair, James Wolcott's Blog

🔗 http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/01/philip-of-oberons-grove-whom.html

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The Examiner

🔗 http://www.examiner.com/literature-in-new-york/review-swallow-by-tonya-plank

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The Review Broads

🔗 http://www.thereviewbroads.com/2010/08/book-reviews-swallow.html

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Reviews

<p>“<em>Swallow</em> … hooks you from the opening pages with its breathless urgency and captures what it’s like to live in NY now, with money worries and ambition and myriad obligations breathing down your neck, and none of it written in cutesy chick-lit’ry. So give it a try.” –<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/01/philip-of-oberons-grove-whom.html"><em>Vanity Fair</em> Online, James Wolcott, January 15, 2010</a></p> <p>“Plank has a knack for combining philosophical opinions, hard-luck family stories, discount shopping triumphs, and gently slapstick humor into a book that makes readers laugh, think, and swallow hard in sympathy.” –<em>ForeWord Reviews</em></p> <p>“Tonya Plank has written a novel about a woman coming of age at thirty; <strong>about moral and psychological integrity</strong>, with strong sentiments on male/female relationships between father and daughters and the undercurrents that appear in love and social relationships within those dynamics.  <strong>This is not just regional, women’s fiction – it transcends any genre.</strong> As the layers unravell like an onion, I fell into Sophie’s world most intently.  <strong>Ms. Plank’s first novel is a brilliant show of even greater things to come.  She is an author to watch and follow.  I know her next novel will be even more brilliant than this one, if that is possible.</strong>” <a href="http://www.thereviewbroads.com/2010/08/book-reviews-swallow.html">The Review Broads</a> (emphasis in the original)</p> <p>“I swallowed it up, no pun intended… The novel is very chatty and engaging… A great beach read.” –<a href="http://www.gothamgal.com/">Gotham Gal</a> (Books of the Moment sidebar)</p> <p>“…As engaging as any book I have read. Although it does seem to be a little long at first, the character development is so appealing that once you start reading you find yourself eagerly anticipating what will come next…” –<a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-19296-Manhattan-Literature-Examiner~y2010m7d10-Review-Swallow-by-Tonya-Plank">Examiner.com</a></p> <p>“An entertaining pick for general fiction readers.” <a href="http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/mar_10.htm"><em>Midwest</em><em> Book Review</em></a></p>