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Talia Carner was the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine. A former adjunct professor at Long Island University School of Management and a founder of her own marketing consulting firm to Fortune 500 companies, she was also a counselor and lecturer for the Small Business Administration, a member of United States Information Agency missions to Russia, and a participant at the 1995 International Women's Conference in Beijing. Ms. Carner's first novel, PUPPET CHILD, was listed in “The Top 10 Favorite First Novels 2002” by BookBrowse and launched a nationwide legislation that became the platform for two Senatorial candidates. CHINA DOLL has made Amazon’s bestsellers list and served as the platform for Ms. Carner's presentation at the U.N. in 2007 about infanticide in China—the first ever in U.N. history. While over 30 of Carner’s short stories and award-winning essays have appeared in The New York Times and in literary magazines and anthologies, she has just completed a new novel, JERUSALEM MAIDEN, to be published in 2010.  

Ms. Carner is a board member of HBI, a research center for Jewish women's studies at Brandeis University, and an honorary board member of several domestic violence and child abuse organizations. Her addictions include chocolate, ballet, hats—and social justice.

Talia Carner and her husband Ron have 4 grown children and reside in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, NY.

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Before turning to fiction writing, Talia Carner worked for Redbook magazine and was the Publisher of Savvy Woman magazine. An adjunct professor of marketing at Long Island University and a marketing consultant to Fortune 500 companies, she was a volunteer counselor and lecturer for the Small Business Administration and a member of United States Information Agency missions to Russia. Carner's activities in women's organizations led to her participation at the 1995 International Women's Conference in Beijing, where she learned of the atrocities of The Dying Rooms, the Chinese orphanages where the documented death rate was 80%. Further researching the subject for her second novel, CHINA DOLL, Carner received a certificate in cultural studies from the university in Hangzhou. She then traveled the Chinese countryside, spending long hours with women-university professors, industry directors, aging farmers, and budding entrepreneurs-over her jars of American peanut butter, chatting about life, work, and the role of women in both societies.

While writing CHINA DOLL, Carner spoke with former State Department officers and CIA agents, attended lectures about the Sino-US relationship, and received feedback from English-speaking Chinese writers. Contacts within the music industry afforded her a unique inside view and complemented her own knowledge of the business and corporate world to provide CHINA DOLL with the textural, eclectic background against which the plot unfolds.

Talia Carner's first novel, PUPPET CHILD, was listed in The Top 10 Favorite First Novels 2002 (BookBrowse.com) and won her an Outstanding Author Award (BookReviewCafe.com). The book launched The Protective Parent Reform Act, a law now passed or under consideration in over a dozen states, and has become the platform of a Senatorial candidate. Her second novel, CHINA DOLL, has become the platform for her investigation into infanticide in China, which Ms. Carner presented at the March 2007 U.N. Committee on the Status of Women. Carner's personal essays--some winners of the Writer's Digest Writing Competition--appeared in The New York Times, Chocolate For Women anthologies [Simon & Schuster], Cup of Comfort [Adams Media] and The Best Jewish Writing 2003 (John Wiley & Son). Several of Carner's short stories entered Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope's Hall of Fame and were published in literary magazines such as Lynx Eye, Midstream, Rosebud, Confrontation and North Atlantic Review.

Carner has just completed a new novel, JERUSALEM MAIDEN, which was named semi-finalist in Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (out of almost 10,000 manuscript entries.) It is expected to be published in 2010.  

A 7th generation Sabra born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ms. Carner served in the 1967 Six Day War before coming to the United States in 1974. She received a B.A. degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Psychology and Sociology and a Master's degree in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She and her husband Ron, have four grown children. The couple lives in Bridgehampton, Long Island and in Manhattan, New York

Board Member:  

* Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (Jewish women’s studies department at Brandeis University)

* CAVNET ,  National Coalition For Family Justice, and other domestic violence and family & law organizations.

Member:
* International Women Writing Guild 
* Women National Book Association

* Two-Bridges Writers