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Quick and Easy: "Free Gift With Purchase"

Jackie Pilossoph's Free Gift with Purchase Gives Back to Help Fight Lung Cancer

eBook Addict: Author Interview

Romancing the Book: Guest & Contest

Mrs. Mommy Booknerd's Q & A with Jackie

Glenview Lantern's article about Jackpot!

Patch's coverage of the Jackpot! book launch:

Trib Local's coverage of the Jackpot! book launch:

From Make It Better magazine, Dec. 2010:

Television appearance on NBC's the 10! Show in Philadelphia

Meet The North Shore's Own Carrie Bradshaw, Make it Better Magazine, July, 2010

She couldn't have timed it better. Just as "Sex and the City 2" hit the screens, North Shore author Jackie Pilossoph's first book, "Hook, Line and Sink Him," hit bookstores.

We recently caught up with Pilossoph to find out how this Chicagoan-turned-North-Shore-resident survived commitment-phobic men in the city and lived to write about it: read more...

Chick Lit Plus Interview

Q: When did you first know you wanted to be a writer?

About nine years ago, I had a great idea for a romantic comedy. I used to go jogging on the lake front in Chicago and write the story in my head. Shortly after, I began writing my ideas down on my computer. One story lead to another, and another, and another, and nine years later, I've finished seven screenplays and four novels.

Q: In addition to novels, you have also written screenplays. How different and or/alike are writing novels and screenplays?

VERY different. Novels are a lot more fun for me to write, because I get to live inside the minds of my characters, and I get to tell readers what my characters are thinking and feeling. I enjoy creating funny and lovable people, or if someone's a villain, it's fun to make him or her really unlikeable. When it comes to movies, the actors and director both have so much more control over character personalities.

Writing novels and screenplays are similar in regards to dialogue. In both, I truly enjoy delivering great dialogue to make my characters' conversations witty and funny and hip and dramatic. Then again, in movies, an actor can be flexible with his or her lines. Read more...