Hi, I'm Joel Wapnick, writer of literary fiction. The View North From Liberal Cemetery is my first novel, and it deals with all of the usual suspects: love, death, guilt, memory, and infirmity. Its protagonist is Carl Anderson, an 82-year-old retired professor who believes that life amounts to nothing—until he runs into Shelley Randell, a 26-year-old wiseass librarian with a serious health issue. Please go here for a fuller description. I am an accomplished Scrabble player, having won the World Championship, the Canadian Championship twice, and the North American Championship. I've written three books on the topic, the most recent of which is How to Play Scrabble Like a Champion.. A description of this book can be found here.