I continue to query agents for Doheny Drive: Three Boys and The Girl. The novel centers on four 6th-grade neighbors, three boys and a girl, who meet in the cul-de-sac of Doheny Drive in 1972. They remain connected by unyielding friendship, coming-of-age, mischief, romances, tragedy, illness, failure, and redemption. There’s a lot going on within […]
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Lots going on! 1. Doheny Drive: Three Boys and The Girl is finished! Two more read-throughs led to a few edits. If even two words in a sentence are improved after rereading five chapters, I believe it’s worth the time spent. I hope readers find it an engaging, touching, beautiful generational saga of friendship, love lost and rediscovered, redemption, and triumph. 2. I wrote the first chapter of
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I have completed another full edit of Doheny Drive: Three Boys and The Girl. I added 5000 words along with creative introductions that capture the essence of each surprising chapter. It is a generational story of friendship, unyielding love, tragedy, trials, and redemption. No one has made it through without tearing up. I hope it
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Hallelujah! My novel, Doheny Drive: Three Boys and The Girl, is completed! C’est fini! ¡Esta terminado! È finitu! This is the story of four best friends whose interconnected journey begins in 1972 and passes through decades of enduring camaraderie, loves lost and rediscovered, and the inevitable trials and tribulations of lives worth living. Ultimately, it is a love
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Season’s Greetings and Merry Christmas! My wife and I are preparing for glorious visits with our three children, their spouses, and our wonderful granddaughter, Princess Charlotte! It will be beyond challenging to get much writing done over the next week, which means I’ll have to hit it hard upon our return from Sedona, Arizona, where
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Blackstone Country Club invited me to be the guest speaker for their Ladies Luncheon, and I was privileged to interact with thirty-five classy and interesting women at the event. I read two very different chapters from my memoir, Stand Up – one that triggered stronger emotions than I anticipated and one that had the audience
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