Nick Lees: Academic-turned-novelist publishes first book

Dr. Jana Rieger is an academic by day, a novelist at night and a boxer in her spare time.
Her just published first book, “A Course in Deception,” has won a prestigious U.S. award and she hopes it will become a runaway best-selling Christmas stocking stuffer.
“My writing career didn’t start well,” she says. “The first real essay I ever submitted was in Grade 7 and came back from Mr. Lent my teacher with the word ‘Plagiarism?’ And there was a big at