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I’ve been currently working on a new audiobook! I’m thrilled to announce that my second novel will soon be released in audiobook version. The Eighth Summer is a lovely story about 8 of the best of friends. Can’t wait to share this with you once it’s completed. My second project to announce is that I…
Happy New Year everyone. I hope and pray you all have been well and have enjoyed the Holidays with family and friends. I had shoulder surgery on Dec 5th, been a bit slow but finally getting back on track with my writing. Took a break from the third book right before Thanksgiving. I was consumed…
Spotlight on “Ill Be Home For Christmas”
HI everyone, I wanted to post about my friend Scott Ryan. Scott is a writer, director, composer, singer, editor, father, husband and the list goes on. He has recently written a book about my favorite show of all time, thirtysomething. It’s called “thirtysomething at 30” an oral history filled with interviews, behind the scene…
I’ve always been facinated with roads, in photos, in paintings and in life. There is something haunting, compelling and strangely empowering about them. When the weather permits, one of my favorite things to do is to go on a hike. My favorite walk is near my home. I am lucky enough to live near…
I have always loved The Big Chill. I grew up loving the movie and although the story wasn’t as compelling as I wish it had been, there was a familiarity about it that I loved. The thought of friends vacationing together at a picturesque setting and being alone with their feelings was too enticing. Then…
I could say the answer is that I have tangible multi-dimensional, realistic and believable characters who take the readers by the hand up a steep and jagged coarse and then drag them down like a rollercoaster ride gone haywire.
The Shoebox takes us into the life of Peter Michaels in three different stages. We first see him as a young man in his 20’s finding love. In the second stage, we meet Peter now in his 40’s and as an up and coming architect in the heart of Boston where he is a few weeks shy of his marriage to a fashionable socialite.
When I first thought of writing this novel it was about 25 years ago. I was cleaning out my closet in my office when i stumbled across an old shoebox. Among a few postcards, old high school photos and a few old boyfriend mementos I found some letters and cards I had kept and for some reason had never discarded. And as I read through them. . . Peter began to take form.