Jill Shure, a New York native, majored in Language and Fine Arts at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After graduating, Shure moved to Washington, D.C., and worked on Capitol Hill. After three years, Shure headed for Southern California where she attended graduate school in San Diego for teaching. She then pursued writing and worked with screenwriter Howard Browne and later on with novelist Joan Oppenhiemer.
Shure has written several novels from Young Adult to a Psychological Suspense Thriller. Her first script, "The Levy's Tomb," was optioned by a 20th Century Fox executive. Shure became a finalist in both the Austin Heart of Film Screen Writing Competition and twice in The Academy of Motion Pictures' Nicholl Fellowship. Shure also studied screen writing at UCLA, and with such notable gurus as Syd Field and Linda Seger.
Her fiction harvested awards at the Santa Barbara Writer's Conference and twice at the San Diego State Writers Conferences from editors at Berkeley Putnam and Harper Collins. Jill's writings appear in THE LOVE OF FRIENDS (Berkeley Putnam 1997). In 2002, she won the prestigious Ben Franklin Award for Popular Fiction for her novel, NIGHT JAZZ.
NIGHT GLITTER is the second book in the Jeri Devlin trilogy.
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