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Coming up on Connections: Monday, March 30th

First hour: Will ethics reform work?

Second hour: Boris Fishman on writing a hit novel

In our first hour, ethics reform is at the center of the budget deal that was drafted over the weekend. But is it the tough, game-changing reform that Governor Cuomo claims? There are reasons to doubt the claims that this ethics package will make sweeping changes. Our guests will explain why, drilling into loopholes, as well as what made the cut. Guests:

Joe Spector, Albany Bureau Chief for Gannett
Bill Mahoney, reporter for Capital New York
Brian Kolb, minority leader of the New York State Assembly
Blair Horner, legislative director for NYPIRG
Katherine Smith, League of Women Voters

In our second hour, it's one thing to get published as a first-time fiction writer. It's another to have the New York Times declare, "Is there room in American fiction for another brilliant young émigré writer? There had better be, because here he is."

He is Boris Fishman, author of A Replacement Life. Writers & Books tapped Fishman for their Debut Novel Series. The series allows the public to not only explore a hit novel from a first-time author; the public can learn from the author about how to get published at all. What works? How to find an audience? What is the editing process like?