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Article: Mating dame.(Alex Brunkhorst's novel, "The Mating Season")(Brief Article)
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- WWD
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- June 28, 2004
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Byline: Marcy Medina
LOS ANGELES -- Though she's a former talent agent for TV writers, first-time author Alex Brunkhorst, 31, had never considered writing to be her own craft. Then a short story she began as a Christmas gift for a friend snowballed into a 125-page novella and, within months, she'd sold her imaginative tale, "The Mating Season," to St. Martin's Press. The novel, which hits stores in July, details the brief encounter between an isolated young woman and an eccentric architect, by way of fantastical elements like talking tarantulas and time travel.
"It's a challenging genre because the story needs to be grounded enough that people can ...