Almost Famous Fridays

While Janet Kleinman, wrote press releases and corporate brochures, and later 

taught middle-school children how to write, she dreamed of becoming a novelist.  During 

that time, she married, raised two children, traveled, became a grandmother and retired to 

Florida. 

Today she is an active member of The Writer’s Studio, in South Florida, and VP 

for Education for Ema Hadassah. Her recently published works include profiles of  Jay 

Feinberg (CEO of Gift of Life and a leukemia survivor--), and the deceased diplomat 

Max Kampelman for “lifestyles” magazine.” David Neeleman, the founder of Jet Blue, 

filmmaker, Eitan Gorlin, and others were also profiled in the SOUTH FLORIDA 

TIMES.. She writes a monthly column for Ema Haddasah’s bulletin. Her short story, A 

FIRST BOYFRIEND, won a prize from Writer’s Digest Magazine. That was the original 

motivation for the novel FLIRTING WITH DISASTER WHEN LOVE AND NATURE 

COLLIDE that was published by Brighton Publishing 1n 2012. 

She has just completed a new novel, a family s saga that contains universal 

elements for the underprivileged and families caught up in revolutions and wars.

and yearn to escape to a better country.