Terri’s new book, The Party – How to Have Fun While Finding True Love, is featured in the 2024 Holiday Gift Guide and 2025 Valentine’s editions of NY Lifestyles Magazine and Pets Lifestyles Magazine!
“We get approached by a lot of authors and book publishers to talk about their tomes. When we were approached about Actor/Director Terri Hanauer’s self-help book, The Party: How To Have Fun While Finding True Love, we knew we had to include it in both this guide as well as in New York Lifestyles Magazine’s Holiday Gift Guide. Yes, it is THAT good. Especially for single pet parent gifts!
After reviewing the book, we honestly couldn’t say it any better than the author’s team did: ‘The Party is a breath of fresh air that puts joy and optimism back into your search for true love. Proactive in its approach, this compassionate and insightful guidebook is enhanced by sound advice mixed with humor, experience and wisdom. Step by step instructions and amusing, real-life anecdotes make The Party a must read for anyone who is single or divorced-especially those who want to regain their faith in finding true love.'”
– NY Lifestyles Magazine, Sean Patrick
Terri Hanauer, Writer
When I began writing in 2019, I didn’t know what I was going to write. I started with short exercises – 2 pages at a time – given by my teacher, Jack Grapes. Those two pages grew into two more and then two more and then many, many more and then countless revisions more until I completed my debut novel, “The Lightness of Rain.”
I also didn’t know that I actually liked poetry, especially if it was written by Dorianne Laux and Charles Bukowski. So I began writing poetry.
Writing, I’ve since discovered, is everything.
It’s the culmination of the arts I’ve been fortunate enough to participate in professionally – acting, photography and directing. When I write, I create characters (acting), pictures (photography), and stories (theatre) with language. In my case, English with a little French and Yiddish thrown in.
My father always told us stories at the kitchen table – about what happened at the meat packing factory, or on the streetcar coming home, or at Uncle Jack’s during a game of 7 Card Rummy. My sisters and I would eat our mother’s formidable goulash and listen, totally entranced. That was our campfire.
My poems have been published in Cultural Weekly, Beyond Words Magazine, Cathexis, Prometheus Dreaming, Tiny Seed Journal and Ariel Publishing, LLC.
Two short stories – “Blue Suede Shoes” and “The Cat” – were published in Side-Eye Anthology and On The Bus.
Feature Film
A blocked writer and a troubled young woman who meet over a phone-sex line go on a journey together.