{"title":"Mary Berman","description":"Mary Berman is a Philadelphia-based writer. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Mississippi, where she was a Graduate Excellence Fellow, and she also holds a BA in writing seminars from Johns Hopkins University. Her short works have been published in Cicada, PseudoPod, Fireside Magazine, and elsewhere. Until Death is her debut novel.","products":[{"product_id":"until-death-paperback","title":"Until Death - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSay Yes to the Dress\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eRosemary's Baby\u003c\/i\u003e\" (Margie Sarsfield) in this fresh, darkly funny horror novel in which a woman finally agrees to marry the man of her mother's dreams. . . only to discover that wedding planning will eat you alive. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e If Ophelia Cohen learned one thing from her parents, it's that getting married is a bad idea. 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