Born in Bayside, Queens, Long Island, New York, Ilona grew up to be a freelance writer in Manhattan, where she met and married her husband with whom she left the city she loves for Los Angeles to work and write in TV and film. Not that she doesn't love Los Angeles. She did, but it was a different kind of love. Soon after writing "Freeze Frame" she and her husband moved north to the idyllic village of Ojai in the Shangri La-ish Ojai Valley.Ilona has also worked in politics. She was a consultant and press liaison for two Democratic National Conventions, was Deputy Press Secretary for the 1980 Carter-Mondale Presidential Re-election Campaign for the State of New York, and a speech writer, specializing in the environment and women’s issues for various celebrities who spoke across the country in support of the ’92 and ’96 Clinton-Gore Presidential Campaigns and for First Lady Hillary Clinton.Ilona has also appeared as an on-air guest Design Consultant/Artist on HGTV and periodically appears as a guest columnist in newspapers as diverse as the NY Daily News and the Anderson Valley Advertiser and is a contributor to Huffington Post. Her blog (www.mydinnerswithrichard.blogspot.com) is geared around food, wine, travel, musings and memoirs.In her first novel, FREEZE FRAME her heroine revels in two of the food groups she loves best: cheeseburgers and hot dogs! In WHITE GLOVES & ROB ROYS, her latest heroine discovers caviar on toast points and a long hidden secret of murder and revenge.Please visit my website at: https://www.ilonasaari.comRead more about this authorRead less about this author