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Alina Adams - Writer


Dear Readers!


I am happy to announce that, starting now, your purchase of my latest
book, "Murder on Ice," also means making a contribution to one of
three terrific charities! (See details at the bottom of the page).


In other news: It's been another busy and productive several weeks
for me! Not only did I have a new baby, Gregory on August 26, but I
will also be doing a chat on October 8 at 9:00PM EST hosted by
www.Noveltalk.com. I will be discussing my November 2003 release, "
Murder on Ice"; talking writing, reading, romance, mystery and behind-
the-scenes skating dish, so make sure to stop by!


Plus, I've added another, exclusive "Murder on Ice" excerpt to this
site. To read the Prologue, click here. To check out Chapter One,
Part One, go here, and for thelatest, Part Two, click here.


"Murder on Ice" is based on the judging scandal of the 2002 Winter
Olympics, featuring overworked television skating researcher Bex
Levy, who has three days to find out who killed the Italian judge
who's ordinal gave the World Championship title to the Russian diva,
Xenia Trubin, over America's sweetheart and pre-competition favorite,
Erin Simpson. For pictures of my own days as a skating researcher for
ABC, ESPN, TNT and more, click here!

I will also be doing two book signings in New York City!

On November 6, 7, and 8, I will be signing copies of "Murder on Ice"
to benefit The Ice Theatre of New York during their Home Season at
Chelsea Piers (located between 17th and 23rd Streets along
Manhattan's Hudson River at Pier 59). Come watch America's premiere
ice dance company perform and stop by to say hello to me! If you
can't make the signing, consider supporting Ice Theatre by clicking
here. All profits from books sold through this link will go to Ice
Theatre!

Then, on December 11, I will be signing copies of "Murder on Ice" to
benefit Figure Skating in Harlem, an organization providing
educational, cultural and athletic opportunities for girls in the
Harlem community through the unique discipline of figure skating. If
you can't make the signing, consider supporting FSH by clicking here.
All profits from books sold through this link will go to Figure
Skating in Harlem!

Finally, a chat with Judith Javor, General Secretary of the Israel
Skating Federation, revealed that not only is their primary training
site, Canada Centre, only miles from the Lebanese border and thus a
target for frequent bombs and rocket attacks, but that, "Unlike any
normal sports organization, we are supporting almost all of our
senior and junior skaters financially. I don't just mean sums for
training. Many of the skaters are Olim, new immigrants, and we are
supporting them for pocket money, rent, food etc…" If you would like
profits from your purchase of "Murder on Ice" to help out the
beleaguered people and skaters of Israel, click here.

And don't forget that "Murder on Ice" makes a great fundraising tool
for your own organization, skating club, rink, or competition. To
find out how you can buy "Murder on Ice" at bulk discount and then
resell the books for a profit, click here!

Until next time!

Love;

ALINA ADAMS

"Murder on Ice" (Berkeley 11/03)
"Sarah Hughes: Skating to the Stars" (Berkeley 12/01)
"When a Man Loves a Woman" (DELL 4/00)
"Inside Figure Skating" (METRO 9/99)
"Annie's Wild Ride" (AVON 8/98)
"Thieves at Heart" (AVON 12/95)
"The Fictitious Marquis" (AVON 6/95)

To read "Flames," the round-robin romance written by Mansion authors
Virgina Henley, Sandy Hingston, Julie Ortolon and many more as a fund-
raiser for The American Red Cross, click here! To
read "Counterpoint," my original on-line romantic serial, click here!


http://www.alinaadams.com/




--- In EIFSA@yahoogroups.com, samanthaiceskater@y... wrote:
> http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.10.03/news19.skating.html
>
> Author Battling Antisemitism at the Ice Rink
> By MAX GROSS
> FORWARD STAFF
>
> In March 2002, Israeli ice dancers Sergei Sakhnovsky and Galit
Chait
> won a bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in
> Nagano, Japan, edging out a Lithuanian pair who finished in fourth
> place. Within days, a petition was circulating among skaters and
> judges saying that the Israelis' medal was "not justified."
>
> "How much did it cost you to buy that medal?" another skater
> reportedly asked Sakhnovsky.
>
> "There is big money involved with the Israeli couple, and you
cannot
> fight against that," Povilas Vanagas, one of the Lithuanian
skaters,
> told the press.
>
> "The stereotype of 'buying' a medal," New York-based skating expert
> Alina Sivorinovsky told the Forward, is classic antisemitism. And
> it's particularly ironic considering that the Israel Ice Skating
> Foundation is struggling financially.
>
> Sivorinovsky — author of "Inside Figure Skating" and "Sarah Hughes:
> Skating to the Stars" — is doing her part to help, by speaking out
> against antisemitism in the sport and donating proceeds from her
> forthcoming mystery novel, "Murder on Ice," to the foundation,
which
> began its new skating season two weeks ago.
>
> Sivorinovsky said that those who squabbled about the Israeli team
in
> Nagano had been emboldened by an infamous incident a month earlier
at
> the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, when a French judge
> claimed she had been pressured into voting for the Russian team
over
> the Canadians in the figure skating competition. Sivorinovsky —
whose
> novel, due later this month, was inspired by the Olympic scandal —
> said that while the arguments in Nagano were similarly framed
around
> judges being unfairly swayed, in the case of the Israeli skaters
> there was an additional element of antisemitism involved.
>
> Antisemitism, she said, is not uncommon in the world of figure
> skating. As proof, she points to the case of Michael Shmerkin, an
> Odessa-born figure skater who immigrated to Israel in 1991. When he
> entered the International Skating Union world championship in the
> late 1990s, he set his dances to Jewish songs. He had a prayer
shawl
> and fabric menorah embroidered on the back of his costume. "There
> were comments: 'That's inappropriate — he's bringing politics into
> it,'" Sivorinovsky said.
>
> "When you have a huge, international cast of characters, there's
> always going to be bits and drafts of antisemitism," Sivorinovsky
> told the Forward. In the case of Israeli skaters, she added, this
> antisemitism manifests itself as animosity toward the country's
> athletes.
>
> Israel, with its desert landscapes, isn't an obvious environment
for
> ice skating, but interest in the sport has grown in the past
> decade. "Since the Russian immigrants came, it got more and more
> popular," Sivorinovsky noted. With the help of the Canadian Jewish
> community, an ice rink opened in Metulla, near Israel's northern
> border, in the 1990s. "A lot of native-born Israelis" are getting
> involved, she said. "It's slowly becoming more of a sport."
>
> http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.10.03/news19.skating.html