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Jane St Clair
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Jane St. Clair grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and worked her way through Northwestern University with a variety of odd jobs such as factory welder, beauty shop attendant, commercial sign maker, cocktail waitress and more. After earning a degree in journalism, she spent a year in the Chicago ghettos as a welfare worker. She went to New York City as a production staff member of the television program, “Sesame Street.” Later she worked at Channel 11/PBS-TV in Chicago, and as a newspaper reporter/photographer for the Louisville-Courier Journal and weekly papers in rural Indiana and Appalachian Kentucky. Jane has published over fifty children’s short stories, and adult fiction in literary magazines such as Thema, QWF, and Red Rock Review. Her stories also appear in literary anthologies, including Times of Grace, Times of Sorrow published by the University of Nebraska. Jane is the 2007 winner of the True Life Story contest, 2006 first place winner of The Writers Network contest, American Accolades (first place), Hollywood’s Next Success, and 2005 winner in television writing for Scriptapalooza. As a free-lance writer, Jane authored two non-fiction books and hundreds of web articles. Walk Me to Midnight is her first novel.
Birth Place: Chicago, IL
Accomplishments: 2007 True Life Story first place
2006 American Accolades first place writing
Writers Network 2006 first place, Law and Order script
National award for teaching financial literacy
to children through a website, The Money Express.
The Money Express, has had over a million and a half "hits"
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Books
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Short Stories
The Secret Life of Plants by Jane St Clair
Anorexic young woman secretly hides her eating disorder while everyone around her praises her for being as thin as a super-model. "The Secret Life of Plants" was published in Thema magazine....
When We Lost Gigi by Jane St Clair
A man with Elephant Man's disease falls in love with a miniature poodle. First place winner in the worldwide True Life Story Contest (see http://www.truelifestorycontest.com/.)
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Mordiana and the Sorcerer's Secret by Jane St Clair
We writers sometimes enter contests just to keep our hand in it. For this one, writers had one week to write a 2500-word fairy tale with a credit card in it. Some of the other 30 prompts were a drama/...
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Articles
Spookiest Place in the West on Halloween by Jane St Clair
Mystery castle near Phoenix, Arizona, is haunted with ghosts of the Wild West
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People who live on Canyon Ledges by Jane St Clair
Hundreds of years ago, Native Americans lived high up on the ledges of Walnut Canyon in Arizona -
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White Heat, Desert Summer by Jane St Clair
The Sonoran desert achieves temperatures near 120 degrees in summer and yet it has an unsurpassed beauty
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Assisted Suicide and Your End-of-Life Chats with Your Doctor by Jane St Clair
End of life chats with doctors are about helping you choose the cheapest health care possible to save the system money.
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Tombstone and the Legend of the OK Corral by Jane St Clair
Tombstone, Arizona - the Legend of the OK Corral - the ghosts of the Bird Cage Theater -- it's worth a look...
17 Provocative Quotes from Doctors Against Physician-Assisted Suicide by Jane St Clair
The International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide featured doctors from all over the world who speak out against these laws.
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No Such Thing As Assisted Suicide by Jane St Clair
Suicide by definition is a solitary act - so there's no such thing as "assisted suicide" or "physician-assisted suicide. Anyone, even a doctor, who helps in killing becomes an accessory to murder....
Hitler, the Nazis, and Four Arguments for Assisted Suicide by Jane St Clair
At first, Germans could not accept the idea of state-ordered killing. The Nazis started with mercy killings, offering four compelling arguments which people still use today....
Everybody Comes to San Xavier by Jane St Clair
San Xavier mission in Tucson, Arizona, is a sacred place. Everyone likes it, even atheists.
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Mountaintop Man by Jane St Clair
Here is a man who did it his way: built his house, studio, chapel and even his own grave
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Windmills On My Mind by Jane St Clair
Blue, white, working with the wind,if they made music, the windmills would sing the music of the wind ...
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My Name Is Teague by Jane St Clair
A small boy tells the reasons why assisted suicide is wrong
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A Walk in the High Country by Jane St Clair
The high country of Arizona is a welcome break from the summer desert heat ...
A Walk In the High Country
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17 Provocative Quotes About Euthanasia from People With Disabilities by Jane St Clair
Physician-assisted suicide poses a threat to disabled people and their families. Are people only dignified if they can care for themselves? Are disabled and dying people only dignified when they are d...
The Desert Smells Like Rain by Jane St Clair
Nothing is as rare and as spectacular than a rain storm in the deserts of Arizona ..in photos and words...
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Autumn Walk In the Sonoran Desert by Jane St Clair
Walking alone in the vastness of the Sonoran desert near Tucson, Arizona is about vastness, solitude, and beauty
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragons in Arizona by Jane St Clair
The breathtaking beauty of one special mountain in Tucson, Arizona, becomes a symbol of the beauty of the American Southwest. In photographs and words ...
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A Crime Writer Looks At the Terri Schiavo Case by Jane St Clair
A crime writer looks at why it's hard to make laws about killing people in vegetative states who, like Terri Schiavo, leave no written directions or Living Wills.
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30 Reasons to Vote NO on Proposition I-1000 by Jane St Clair
Thirty logical reasons not based on religion to vote "No" against legalizing physician assisted suicide...
Germany's New Doctor of Death - Roger Kusch by Jane St Clair
German doctor Roger Kusch helps Bettina Schardt, who was not terminally ill, commit suicide. Clever lawyer that he is, he knows how to escape liability....
Twilight by Jane St Clair
Dear diary: I've met my soulmate in biology at Forks High School --but there's just one problem ......
The Dark Knight and Hillbilly Heroin by Jane St Clair
Heath Ledger won the Oscar for "The Dark Knight." He overdosed on a combination of powerful prescription drug painkillers and benzodiazepines (mother's little helpers)...
Barbie and the Battle of the Bratz by Jane St Clair
Barbie Millicent Roberts triumphs in court against a posing pack of Bratz
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The New Rx Cure: Assisted Suicide as Medical Treatment by Jane St Clair
Oregon allows assisted suicide so now that state's health plan pays for assisted suicide but not chemotherapy in certain cases. Bioethicists are now recommending that patients undergoing risky operat...
The Non-Bucket List by Jane St Clair
TEN THINGS TO AVOID BEFORE YOU DIE, the non-bucket list tells you things not to put in any bucket ever...
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Links
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My personal page
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Death Scenes in Literature
Scholarly article about how death scenes in literature have been changing over the past 100 years. English professor Jeff Koloze included Walk Me to Midnight
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MySpace - Jane St Clair
This website has a blog and pictures I've taken of beautiful Arizona
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Public Literature Organization
Really neat organization that invites certain authors to post their work
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Additional information
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| New novel, Walk Me to Midnight. Medical thriller takes on the controversy of doctor-assisted suicide. |
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Contact
Information
Walk Me to Midnight
Box 68226
Tucson
AZ
85704
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