Before turning to fiction writing, Talia Carner worked for Redbookmagazine and served as the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine. An adjunct professor of marketing at Long Island Universityand a marketing consultant to Fortune 500 companies, she was a volunteer counselor and lecturer for the Small Business Administration and a member of United States Information Agency missions to Russia, teaching women entrepreneurial skills.Talia is the author of Hotel Moscow - a mesmerizing, thought-provoking novel that tells the riveting story of an American woman, daughter of Holocaust survivors.