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His fans love his tongue-in-cheek, affectionate and personalized novels.

TheNew York Times

Part entertainer, part psychotherapist. An online celeb whose star quality leaps from the screen.

USA Today

His stories, frequently a combination of fact and fiction, can be oddly touching and seemingly dead-on. He has a gentle touch and, his fans insist, a poets soul.

Wired

It was the Great American love storysimple, honest, innocent and
with a happy ending. And as writer Dan Hurley read it to Melissa
Grigoruk, on whose life the fictional account was based, the glow on
her face and the sparkle in her eyes revealed the awesome power of
love. It was beautiful, wonderful, said the twenty-five-year-old
Bethlehem woman, who was touched by its simplicity and originality.

Allentown Morning Call

A Cyrano for tongue-tied children of all ages has appeared in our midst.

New York Daily News

On a recent spring evening at 63rd Street and Broadway in Manhattan, it didnt take long before a small crowd clustered around Hurley. After a few probes, Dan was ready to write about a couple named Carla and Jay. His fingers flew. No erasing. Sixty seconds later, more or less, Dan reached the end of the novel. He read the novel aloud. When he was finished, Carla wept. He got to the heart of what little he knew, she said, and he was kind.

Newsday

A sidewalk Shakespeare.

People

Since Dan Hurley launched The Amazing Instant Novelist on America Online, hes attracted thousands of loyal followers to his quirky smorgasbord of humor, poetry and 60-Second Novels.

Crains New York Business

He calls them 60-Second Novels because they take him barely a minute to write, and because they re-create in miniature the themes of a novela moment, a problem, a victory, or even a fantasy, in the lives of his customers. All are tinged with the gentle irony that is Hurleys trademark. Being a 60-Second Novelist has taught him a lot about life. And as everyone knows, life can be stranger than fiction.

The Record (New Jersey)

He aims to kick the literary establishment in the knees, he says. And 60-Second Novels are his first step to turn writing back into something that has an impact on peoples lives.

The Christian Science Monitor

Care to have a go at naming historys most prolific creator of fiction? No, its not Shakespeare or Cervantes or any political speech writer. Underachievers all, compared to Dan Hurley. During the past thirteen years, this amiable New Jerseyite has authored more than 17,000 novels. Hurley is a sidewalk Steinbeck, a pavement Proust, a storefront Freud.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The 60-Second Novelist has gone from street corner to the party circuit to the online world. Fans cant get enough. One of the first celebrities to emerge from the online services.

Baltimore Sun

60-Second Novelist tops bestseller list in cyberspace.

Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Ignoring the amused skepticism that greeted what he freely acknowledges is a nutty idea, Hurley took typewriter to street and started typing. And then he discovered cyberspace. Hurley pulled onto the information Superhighway and became a star.

The Star-Ledger (New Jersey)

For Alice

Acknowledgments

So many people have been important to the development of this book, but none more so than the 22,613 people over the past sixteen years who participated in the creation of their 60-Second Novels. Without their willingness to try something they didnt quite understand, to tell their story to some guy with a typewriter, this book would not have been possible.

My literary agent, Jane Dystel, saved the book from being just a neat idea. Her tenacity and honesty are greatly appreciated.

I gratefully acknowledge that parts of chapter 1 were previously published in Whole Earth Review and Writers Digest, parts of chapter 7 in Good Housekeeping, and parts of chapter 8 in the New York Times.

Invaluable critical insights from Lee Quarfoot, fiction editor of Good Housekeeping, and Jean Graham, former Womans Day senior editor, helped me to find the books final structure.

Longtime members of my monthly writers groupJanet Bailey, Erica Manfred, Norman Schreiber, Minda Zetlin, Toni Kamins, Kim Flodin, Florence Isaacs, Joan Iaconetti, Marian Betancourt and others who have come and gonehave been a continuing source of encouragement and support. Members of my writers groups in St. Louis and Chicago, including Dwight Bitikofer and Rhea Hilkevitch, helped me to keep believing in my dreams when they were little more than figments of my imagination.

Nan Gatewood gave important editorial advice on early versions of 60 Seconds in the Life of America.

At the American Society of Journalists and Authors, executive director Alexandra Owens, and past president Mark Fuerst, helped to make Tall Story more than just a tall tale. The friendship and assistance of Brian Dunleavy was also critical to the success of the event.

At America Online, among the dozens of executives Ive worked with, I especially thank Danny Krifcher, Ted Leonsis, Ruby Warren, Martha Girard, Miguel Monteverde, Jeff Bellin, Jesse Kornbluth, Mary Lynne Ashley and Clay Buckley. I also thank Steve Case for building such an awesome literary playground.

My Amazing Instant Novelist site would not survive a day without the brilliant, superhuman work of my site manager, William Rayl. Bill, you are the best.

For saving the site from oblivion, I thank John White and Johnny Michaels. Ill never forget that drive down to AOL through the Storm of the Century.

Staff manager Patricia Rayl has somehow managed to keep nearly two hundred people from across the United States avoid virtual pandemonium. Senior managers Rhonda Perrett, Mary Ellen Rogers, Barbara Quinn and Patricia R. Piatt have stuck like Krazy Glue for over three years, and I could never thank them enough for all theyve done. To all the other staffers, as well as the fans: your devotion and enthusiasm have been... amazing!

I especially thank those staffers who reviewed and rated the hundreds of 60-Second Novels I considered including in the book: Alisa Scheps, Ruth Egan, Kathleen Koelble Hingel, Barbara Hicks, Roberta Nolte, Dina Robinson, Eric Sagel, Loralee Peterson, Mike McReynolds, Sandi Morgan, Debbie Santano, Rick Light, Kathy Corcoran, Marie Falco, Anita Clare, Doris Phillips Doud, Marge Garnett, Debi Staples, Amanda Dunn, Barbara Quinn, Debbie Paliagas, Jackie Gingrich, Laura Moore, Silvia M. Vincent, Elaine Clausen, Deb Andoetoe, Steve Tessmer, Jan Soares, Anne Jasper and Elise Holm. Many visitors to the site also read and rated the stories, and all your contributions made a critical difference in separating the wheat from the chaff.

If Kim Weiss at Health Communications hadnt been so enthusiastic about my book proposal, I doubt it ever would have been published. To her and publisher Peter Vegso, I say thanks for going with your gut and making a lifelong dream come true. I am indebted to editors Christine Belleris and Allison Janse, who helped transform that rickety proposal into something I can be proud of; their patience and skill are extraordinary. And Larissa Hises design of the book has made it a thing of beauty.

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