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Welcome to the website of writer Jeff Gottesfeld, which is consistently under construction!

Latest news: It's January of 2012, and I look forward to a year of only good things for all of us, and a year of peace. Funny how the wishes get simpler as the years pass. .

The clickage continues.

After a year that saw two books I wrote pub within a few weeks of each other during the summer -- SuperFan!, from Grosset & Dunlap (licensed by the WWE), and Amen, L.A. -- 2012 will bring more. Some under pseudonym -- okay, how funny was it watch Charlize Theron in the I-Can't-Believe-I-Actually-Enjoyed-It film Young Adult, writing the tenth book of a bestselling teen girl series under pseudonym (who'd do such a thing: -- and some under -- gasp! -- my actual name. Another WWE title coming, called Tag-Teamed!  You'll see that in the summer of this year, and I'll put up a cover shot as soon as I can get one.

Also terribly exciting is that my friend and colleague Elizabeth Wong and I are going to adapt Randa Abdel-Fattah's remakable 2007 novel, Does My Head Look Big in This? to the stage. The novel, about a suburban Muslim girl who decides to wear her hijab veil full-time, has everything to make a great play. Thank you to Dramatic Publishing Company, Randa, and her agent Sheila Drummond for making this happen.

You can't believe how much I'm learning about Islam for this project. Well, maybe you can.

In other news, I've learned to make a hellified bean soup with beef sausage.