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UCLA Extension professor Deborah Reed authored &quot;Olivay,&quot; a novel set against a backdrop of the Los Angeles Marathon. In the book, bombs detonate across the city and trap Olivay and her one-night stand inside her loft, forcing them to experience the aftermath of the bombing with each other. (Courtesy of Andrew Reed)

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Deborah Reed started writing in 2011 under the pen name Audrey Braun to avoid the genre writer label. The UCLA Extension professor felt authors that wrote thrillers or science fiction novels, like her, were stigmatized as lesser kinds of writers than those that wrote literary fiction.

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Q&A: UCLA Extension professor speaks on new novel ‘Olivay,’ perseverance

By Jessica Cariaga

Nov. 1, 2015 11:40 p.m.