Novels in Progress

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. . . Philips Park is really two stories, which become entwined near the end. One is of a young lad, growing up in Ohio in the mid-nineteen sixties with the challenges of being bullied, mentally ill parents, romantic awakening, solving a mystery, and providing leadership, aid and comfort to his friends. The other is of a slave family, which escapes their bondage in Georgia in the Civil War Era and relocates to the same small town in an effort to regroup and take the underground railroad to Canada. Fate and fortune deal a number of deadly blows. Read a chapter . . . Consider themes

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. . . Wake is a psychodrama about a San Francisco personal injury attorney, who takes his family to the American Trial Lawyer's Association annual meeting in New York, then puts his wife on a plane, bound for Paris. She is taking their daughter to compete in the Junior World Tennis Championships, when the plane explodes in mid-flight. She had also planned a rendezvous with her French lover, a jewelry salesman. At first the lawyer, Michael Fleherty, joins in the investigation with an Israeli reporter, the daughter of a former Jewish cabinet minister . Soon he becomes a target of the investigation, given the ties which his law firm had with Middle Eastern clients with terrorist connections. Then, Keren, the reporter suspects him. Finally, he is seen to have personal doubts about his own stability, as well as his involvement--witting or unwitting?--in the disaster. Read a chapter.

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. . . That's What Little Girls are Made of is the continuing saga of Lili Kaleo, the lead character in Sugar: A Hawaiian Novel & Spice: An Island Intrigue. In it Sugar has an opportunity to share life's lessons in a constructive way by raising a daughter. When deja vu sets in, the claws come out for this protective mother of a very talented, beautiful and head strong young woman. Can we learn from our mistakes, or are they destined to be passed on from one generation to the next? Read a chapter.

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. . . On the first day of school, a Sacramento mother, who is about to wake her son to begin his term as class president and captain of the football team, discovers that he has killed himself. The wife of a wealthy real estate developer, who has of two additional children with problems of their own is forced to re-evaluate the family's values and its priorities. She can no longer ignore the fact that her husband is a philanderer and is forced to re-invent herself and carve out a new life for those whom she loves. Read opening scene.

10-12 Months of primary attention. Please vote for the novel of your choice. Your input will influence which is finished next.

. . . In 1844, two bank robbers, are put into a Carthage Illinois jail cell, along with Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church. Before he is killed by a mob, they escape to avoid hanging. In an effort to remain incognito, they fall in with the Mormons on their treck westward towards Utah. The men are anything but reverent, but enjoy the fruits of their alleged conversion, including multiple wives. Eventually things get out of hand as multiple quests come sharply into conflict. Read a chapter.

12-15 Months of primary attention. Please vote for the novel of your choice. Your input will influence which is finished next.

6-8 Months of primary attention, since this is a novella. Please vote for the novel of your choice. Your input will influence which is finished next

. . . After the 2008 Presidential Election, the Blue States used a little noticed U.S. Constitutional provision to sucede from the union. They formed a new federation with Canada to maintain a uniform land mass. Red America, as it was now called, accepted the leadership of President Whacker.

. . ."Whack 'em to the left, whack 'em to the right," chanted the carefully rehearsed troupe of pom-pom girls from his native Stillwell, Oklahoma as the heavily fortified innaugural parade made its way up Pennsylvania Avenue. As President Whacker and his librarian wife, Delores, ceremoniously walked the last 25 yards to the steps of the Capitol, a "nucular" explosion took place in a cargo container in Miami vaporizing all who were nearby. This novel explores the response and governance of Red America under the Whacker regime. [This work may be subdivided into two novellas, one called Red America and one called Blue America.] Read prologue and first scene.

. . . Everything Nice is a Plantation Era novel, set in Hawaii. It traces the lives of Lili's ancestors, including her grandfather, a sugar baron, and ends with her birth in the 1960's. As Lili's father was an illegitimate son of Horace Martin, he did not have all of the advantages he might otherwise have had. Instead he spent his life in complete and utter resentment of his father, while his only brother reaped the benefits. In the end with all things in life, the scenario went full circle, such that justice and irony prevail. Prologue

15-18 Months of primary attention. Please vote for the novel of your choice. Your input will influence which is finished next.

. . . . . Mostly Hawaiian Photos, Short Stories and Poems is a work of love for the islands of Hawaii. The photos are inspired by its natural beauty and depicts those portions of the islands that particularly "spoke" to me, when I resided there. The short stories are reminiscent of the people I met in Hawaii, their events and history. The poems are an outpouring from my heart, as pure and refreshing to me, as the many waterfalls and springs, which dot the islands. Read a short story &/or read a poem and see a photo.

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