Once celebrated as a modern dancer who dazzled audiences at New York’s Lincoln Center with a 70-minute, virtuoso performance of Mahler's "Fifth Symphony ," Emily Frankel continues to explore new life arenas and reinvent herself.
On stage and off -- as a dancer, choreographer, director, playwright (seven plays), and the writer of
the provocative daily blog, Em’s Talkery (www.emtalkery.blogspot.com) -- Emily Frankel has known success.
And now, as a novelist, she's fired a shot across the bow of the romantic novel genre with the publication of six dramatic, romantic, suspenseful works of fiction: "Circle of Ivy," "Heart City," "Karen of Troy," "Splintered Heart, "Three Miles East of Rose," and "Somebody: Woman of the Century."
The books, which feature strong, complex heroines who deal -- sometimes gracefully, sometimes not -- with the vagaries of life, from love and betrayal to ambition, loss, and redemption, have been published as e-books through Amazon.com, Smashwords.com and available on Overdrive.com, Barnes and Noble and other e-book outlets.
Adding even more flavor to the mix is renowned stage, television and film actor John Cullum -- who also happens to be Frankel's husband. In tandem with the books' release, Cullum has recorded dramatic readings from each of Emily’s books. The videos are available on the couple's Youtube channel, Airbroadcasting (www.youtube.com/airbroadcasting).
"Yes, there's sex in all of my six novels -- like spice -- enough to evoke a reader's interest," Frankel said. "But this sex is not meant to induce orgasms. It’s meant to advance the storyline and fill out my characters. I delve truthfully into all the stuff -- bad and good, sad, ugly, repulsive, and the courageous (because a lot of it is sexual). I don the disguises, some of them outlandish and not very comfortable, but always, as genuine as possible. I write from the spirit, soul, child dream that sent me into dancing. I know that my words -- when I write -- truly express what I'm feeling. My books offer readers a trip into someone else's life -- even though there is a lot of me in there.”
Frankel has known drama and adversity in her own life. A car crash left her almost dead, then threatened to steal away her gift and passion for dancing with a terrifying and permanent diagnosis of paraplegia. After an arduous recovery, doctors told her she would never walk again -- let alone dance! But surrender is not in Emily Frankel's DNA. With steely determination, she conquered her paralysis and lived -- not only to dance again, but to triumph! The crowning glory of her dance career was that breathtaking performance at LincolnCenter’s Alice Tully Hall.
Her story has been dramatically chronicled in Teague Jackson's “ENCORE: The Professional and Private Triumph of Emily Frankel."
Emily Frankel's daily blog, "Em's Talkery" offers her candid and frank take on what's happening in the world today -- from politics and pop culture to art and entertainment.
Together, each week, Frankel and Cullum record a videocast from their home in New York City.
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