Three Chords

Sixteen years after abandoning her family, a troubled woman is forced to come to grips with her own childhood trauma before she can reconcile with her son.

That’s called a log line, and it’s used to generate interest in a book, movie, or screenplay. Unfortunately, and by necessity, it’s also rather vague and makes the person forced to write it (yours truly) sound like a salesman. The problem in describing a book, however, is to not give away the entire story in doing so, so let me just leave you with a list of the themes I tried to explore while writing it. The love of music, abandonment, incest, family dynamics, dog fighting, commercial fishing, loss, spirituality, ecology, reconciliation, self destruction, and, as much as I hate to admit it, hope. Enough said.

Leisure Daze, my second novel, will be out later this year. A brief synopsis follows.

Two retirees stumble upon a bale of marijuana while out fishing in the Gulf Stream and figure, what the hell, what’s the harm in keeping it? They soon regret that decision, as their fellow retirement community residents and a Columbian drug cartel that’s using their little marina to smuggle cocaine take notice. Do I need to add here that it’s nowhere near as dire a story as Three Chords?

If you don’t want to leave home, you can order or preorder these books at the most wonderful publishing house in the world, RoseHeartBooks.com, as well as the usual online vendors.