Drawing Breath: A Serial Novel (literary fiction)
Sixteen-year-old Caitlin Kelly wants to be an abstract painter, and she wants to learn from her crush-worthy upstairs neighbor, Daniel Benedetto. An artist in his mid-thirties, Daniel suffers from cystic fibrosis, a chronic and often debilitating disease that usually kills by age twenty. Although he’s on borrowed time, with a sister who frets over his every move, he longs to live as normal a life as he can. And if Caitlin’s mother agrees, that may include taking the girl on as a private student. Whether that’s a generous act of mentoring or a recipe for disaster remains to be seen.
This novel, told in five monthly installments, is available for:
Kindle on Amazon.com Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4
Nook at B&N.com Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3
Self-published, 2011
The Joke’s on Me (contemporary fiction)
When a mudslide plummets her hopes, her home, and her entire collection of impractical footwear into the Pacific, former actress and stand-up comic Frankie Goldberg takes the only possession she has left – a cherry red Corvette convertible – and drives east to her family’s bed and breakfast in Woodstock, New York. This begins a journey into the family she left behind, the family she joked about in her act. But the joke’s on Frankie. While she was doing impressions of her slightly menopausal Jewish mother and her sister the serial divorcee, her family was slowly leaving her. And maybe that joke is just too new to be funny. Travel along with fearless Frankie as she puzzles through that eternal dilemma of coming back home to find that nothing is where you left it.
From 4RV Publishing, also available at Amazon.com, B&N.com, or order from your favorite bookstore. Or, for a limited time, you can purchase signed copies directly from me for $20.00.
