• Frances Kuffel •
author of Passing For Thin


At this time, my focus is on writing and on coaching writers. If you've always wanted to write a book but don't know how to start—or need structure in which to write—or need to get your book into shape to submit to agents or publishers, you might need me.

Here's what my coaching clients have to say about the work we're doing together:

"Thank-you for Friday's call. I wrote all weekend. You have hit the motivational nerve within me."

"I have to say I have never felt more in control in my whole life. Writing this book is better than therapy for me. I am satisfying the black hole of fulfillment. I am writing with a passion I have never known. I am loving where the story is going. I just want to run to the post office and mail to you as soon as I am done each section. It is exhilarating to have this rush every day."

"Thank you so much for all your help today, Frances. I really don't know what I would do without you!"

I love coaching. It uses the best of my talents & my gentlest side. If you're interested, please contact me at fkuffel@yahoo.com. I'll be happy to send you my mission statement.

I've worked in literary agencies in New York City for 15 years, first in the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, then in Maria Carvainis Agency, Inc, and, Fredrica S. Friedman & Co., Inc.


Welcome to the complicated literary life of Frances Kuffel.


You can check me out or tune in at:

- http://www.myspace.com/storiesonstage for a recent interview accompanying a night of recovery readings

http://brooklynheightsblog.com/ for the occasional blog about walking dogs

- http://caronthehill.blogspot.com/

- http://angryfatgirlz.blogspot.com/: a forum set up by & for the readers of my Amazon blog

- my Amazon blog -- go to my book page & click on the link

- http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuffelscrapbook/

- http://www.randomhouse.com/broadway/index_guides.html
for Book Group questions

- salon.com

- skinnydaily.blogspot.com

- CBS Morning Show website

www.eatingforlifecoach.com, February 26, 2004

- Chicklit Paper Jam at http://www.chicklit.com/paperjam/paperjam69.html

- Eat Our Words: The Montana Writer’s Cookbook (Montana Center for the Humanities)

- Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart (Far Country Press)

- Psychology Today online at http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20050119-000006.html

Here are some links to websites maintained by people I've gotten to know through promoting Passing for Thin. They may contain information and/or comradery for body-reformers.

www.innercorecoaching.com
maintained by Ada Gilman for the betterment of personal inner power, including weight loss

www.YourOwnHealthandFitness.com
maintained by Layna Berman

http://www.healthylifestyleexpo.com/schedule.htm

www.drpeeke.com
maintained by Pam Peeke, author of FIGHT FAT AFTER FORTY

http://www.skinnydaily.com
"Short, daily essays on weight loss and fitness from a really average woman"


Find out what Montana writers such as Annick Smith, Judy Blunt, Jim Harrison, James Lee Burke & others eat...


http://angryfatgirlz.blogspot.com/

This is a forum for further discussion of being fat, losing weight, trying out thin, gaining weight, raising kids, dating losers, gardening, diet books & fat chick lit, dog stories, recipes, compulsive eating/book-buy
Read my blog on relapse, recovery, dogs, best friends, boys & books. Go to PASSING FOR THIN and it will provide a link.

OR: http://caronthehill.blogspot.com/
Find me on MySpace and be my friend!" class="QuickLink" target="_blank">Damned if I get this -- maybe someone can explain it to me...
Write to me with questions or concerns--I'll do my best to answer.

fkuffel@yahoo.com
Read the first chapter barnesandnoble.com.


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