RHODA BERLIN is the co-author of the non-fiction book Mixed Blessings: A Guide to Multicultural and Multiethnic Relationships. Her original short story "Last Bite" appears in Festive Mayhem 2, a collection of cozy holiday mystery stories by seven crime writers of color. 

Three of the FM2 authors are contributing essays to The First Two Pages, a blog that asks writers to describe their creative processes by analyzing - that's right - the first two pages of a recent story. Rhoda's appears on November 23.