Marcelle Sirkus
Marcelle Sirkus is a writer, award-winning digital media producer, and published author, living in Los Angeles, California, with her middle-school-aged son. Though she has had a variety of careers over the past couple of decades, she has recently renewed her romance with writing. Which is funny, because she would have done anything in high school to avoid having to write even the most miniscule essay. Don't even ask her how she managed to pass Advanced Social Studies class without submitting a...See more
Marcelle Sirkus is a writer, award-winning digital media producer, and published author, living in Los Angeles, California, with her middle-school-aged son. Though she has had a variety of careers over the past couple of decades, she has recently renewed her romance with writing. Which is funny, because she would have done anything in high school to avoid having to write even the most miniscule essay. Don't even ask her how she managed to pass Advanced Social Studies class without submitting a term paper. She somehow managed to graduate without turning in a single one. After graduating, she dedicated herself to playing electric bass guitar in a rock band, while maintaining a series of fairly well-paying jobs, as well as a few no-paying jobs that provided an outlet for her creative pursuits - among them writing a music review column in a Hollywood newspaper. She enjoyed writing the weekly column and the perks that went along with it, including spending an extraordinary amount of time at live rock concerts, securing an official LAPD press pass, along with free access to all the cool clubs on L.A.'s Sunset Strip! After publishing the first book in the shiksa series, A Shiksa's Guide to Shabbos: Don't blow out the candles!, she took a break from the topic to write a comedy TV Pilot based on her time working as a concert ticket broker in Hollywood, California, Up-Close Tickets, incorporating memories and stories of playing in a rock band, the wild scenes playing out nightly, and the rock stars that emerged during the 80s. With A Shiksa's Guide to Jewish Cooking, Marcelle has enjoyed recalling her time spent in Brooklyn, New York as a kid, noshing her way through the borough, exploring her Jewish roots, and revisiting family traditions. With the convenience of technological advancements, computers, and the Internet since Marcelle graduated school, were she to be assigned a term paper now, she says she's pretty sure she would nail it! See less