reported by Jef Horn, FictionFanatic.com

Regent Press has released Adina Sara's fiction/memoir book, 100 Words Per Minute - Tales From Behind Law Office Doors, an intimate look inside the quirky world of law offices.

In a series of short stories connected by smart poetic jabs, the book exposes tyrannical and tired litigators and their devoted, though sometimes-devious secretaries. Sara has spent her 25+-year career working her way through the legal mine field as a naive clerk typist, stressed-out secretary and office manager in non-profit, small plaintiff and corporate environs.

"My career choice was purely accidental. I swerved on to a road marked Law Offices," explains Oakland writer Sara. "I have found that it really is not such a bad thing to have your work life choose you, instead of the other way around. It keeps you honest. It keeps you alert."

That said, 100 Words Per Minute draws the reader inside the daily life within law offices with humor and candor, exposing the pressures, dramas and personalities of boss and employee alike.

Attorney at Law, Richard Duane comments, "It's as though there had been a translucent veil that kept me from truly seeing those who worked for me. After reading this book, the veil has lifted." Paralegal and novelist Dee Sullivan succinctly advises, "If you work for an attorney, you have got to read this book."

Adina Sara is an Oakland-based writer and author of 100 Words Per Minute. A songwriter and poet, she released her first collection of original songs, Feel a Change, in 1978 followed by two CD's, Love Song to Myself and Just For The Song. Her column The Imperfect Gardener runs in a local Bay Area newspaper and she has published essays and poetry in East Bay Express, Oxygen, Peregrine Press and Cottage Gardener.

Auhtor's website: www.adinasara.com