In a nightclub on her birthday she meets Lorraine "Ray" Schleine, a nasty young girl with an adult attitude, who lives with her careless mother and a terminally-ill father in a fancy uptown apartment.

And, yes, she’s calling the book "Uptown Girl.” "I wrote ‘Uptown Girl' to inspire readers to create the life they want, which is what I've always tried to do, not through fo ...