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Writers groups cater to Long Island authors
Photo credit: Photo by Ed Betz | Michael Lorusso holds a notebook full of his work during a writers group that meets monthly in the meeting in the meeting room at Barnes & Noble in Huntington Station.
Five years ago, Toby Speed got an idea for a novel. A "flash of a scene" came to mind, she says, a murder mystery set in Port Jefferson.
Speed, 55, a writer and editor from Selden, has published seven children's books (including the award-winning "Brave Potatoes"), but her first stab at adult fiction is coming with some struggles.
Rescue could come in the form of a writing group, where...
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