FourEver Friends
by Erica Miner, author
Violinist turned author Erica Miner has had a multi-faceted career as an award-winning screenwriter, author, lecturer and poet. A native of Detroit, she studied music at Boston University and the New England Conservatory of Music. After experiencing a variety of highs and lows in her quest to forge a career in New York City, Erica won the coveted position of violinist with the Metropolitan Opera Company, a high-pressured milieu but the pinnacle of her field.
Her life became even more challenging, however, when injuries from a car accident spelled the end of her musical career. Searching for a new creative outlet, she drew upon her lifelong love of writing for inspiration and studied poetry and screenwriting, winning a number of awards in both categories. After moving to Southern California, Erica honed her screenwriting skills with author and script guru Linda Seger of "Making a Good Script Great" fame and with Ken Rotcop, the author of “Perfect Pitch.” One of Erica’s ten screenplays is based on her award-winning debut novel, "Travels with My Lovers", (http://www.ericaminer.com/bookdetail1.php?2) winner of the Fiction Prize in the Direct from the Author Book Awards, and others have won awards and/or placed in such competitions as WinFemme, Santa Fe and the Writer’s Digest.
Erica Miner
Author - Screenwriter - Lecturer
Inspired by her journals written during her travel adventures in Europe with and without her children, Erica penned Travels With My Lovers with a dual goal: first, to entertain; and second, to speak to all generations of women and encourage them to express their emotional freedom. Currently, Erica has written both the novel and screenplay of her suspense thriller, "Murder In The Pit," (http://www.ericaminer.com/bookdetail2.php?3), which takes place at the Met.
Her newest novel explained further on the next page, "FourEver Friends", (http://www.ericaminer.com/bookdetail2.php?1) is the first in a series chronicling a young girl’s coming of age in the volatile 60s, due out from Nightengale Press in February of 2009. Like Travels With My Lovers, the series is based on Erica’s journals.
In addition Erica has developed a number of writing lectures and seminars on writing, which she has presented at various venues across the West Coast and on the High Seas for Celebrity and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Topics range from "The Art of Self Re-Invention" to "Opera Meets Hollywood" and "Journaling for Writers: Mining the Gold of Your Own Experiences.” Her writings have appeared in Vision Magazine, the XLNC1 classical music station newsletter, WORD San Diego and numerous E-zines. More details about Erica’s novels, screenplays, seminars and interviews can be found on her website, http://www.ericaminer.com.
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