Synopsis:
Camilla Madison and Alyson Strong are two women thrown together by fate, both dealing with an early trauma in entirely different ways. Alyson, aggressive and brilliant, uses her ingenuity to take what ever she can get, and Camilla, resilient and receptive, tries to find herself amid the choices and events she encounters along the way.This story is a modem mirror image of the real world, in which the heroines negotiate careers, marriages, lovers, children, friendship, and pain on their own -neither waiting for a man to save them nor to sweep them off their feet.A funny, touching, and ruthless story -set against the backdrop of the glamorous real estate and publishing worlds of New York and Palm Beach - Make Me An Offer will mesmerize and entertain you as the lives of its heroines inevitably intertwine. You will come away convinced that it''s not what life dishes out but how you deal with it that counts.
About the Author:
Author, Entrepreneur, Corporate ExecutiveBA, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityMBA, Columbia Business SchoolMFA in Creative Writing, Manhattanville College (inprogress)A life-long lover of learning and new challenges, Ms.Rohm graduated high school at the age of sixteen, valedictorian of her classand editor in chief of the yearbook.¿ Shewon a National Merit Scholarship and a highly coveted Regent's Scholarship, aswell as a Newspaper Fund Scholarship during her junior year at Barnard, whichled her to her first real job at The New York Times.Ms. Rohm started her first business, Jessica DeeCommunications, Inc., a public relations agency, at the age of twenty-one.¿ She sold it to the largest independentadvertising agency in the United States when she was thirty and trumped herfirst success with her next entrepreneurial venture, Foreign ManagementCompany, a real estate firm serving foreign investors, from 1989 through2000.¿ This business is still active as aninvestor in real estate holdings. After earning her MBA, she spent eighteenmonths in corporate brand strategy at IBM, where she was the recipient of theMLDP Award for demonstration of best leadership competencies and where shecompleted the IBM Consulting Curriculum, before returning to business as VicePresident, Communications for Thomson Corporation, a position she currentlyholds.She has written two novels, Love Lessons,which she describes as a feminist adventure story about an entrepreneur, and MakeMe An Offer, about the glamorous worldsof real estate and publishing in New York and Palm Beach.¿ She guest lectures for audiences whichinclude Columbia Business School and The Conference Board, and has been afeatured subject in two books and many articles including:¿ Whiz Kids:¿Success at an Early Age by Marilyn Machlowitzand The Confidence Factor by Judith Briles aswell as Entrepreneur Magazine, Success Magazine, Glamour Magazine and The New York Times.She lives with her husband, two children and numerouspets in Green
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