Marine Park author, 58, pens first novel
Brooklyn BookBeat
When Marine Park-native Debbie Burke first pitched her upcoming novel “Glissando: A Story of Love, Lust and Jazz” to a spreadsheet’s worth of publishers and literary agents, she was stunned to receive a positive response from one of them the very next day.
The business and lifestyle editor had been prepped by an onslaught of internet advice telling would-be authors they might have to wait months for a reply…or they might not even get one.