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I have been writing professionally for over 50 years, including the writing that has allowed me to lead a comfortable middle class life: a career requiring significant expertise in the technical writing required for curriculum, assessment, and instructional design, and at the end of my career, creating the copy for a website used by Pennsylvania's schools for school improvement planning. During those same years and for the sheer joy of doing it, I have been writing novels, and when the spirit moves, sreenplay adaptations of those novels. As I near the end of my life, I am offering the final revisions of my novels for readers who enjoy and are inspired by character-driven works of Literary Fiction.
In the fifteen years prior to the turn of the Millennium, I approached the writing of novels and screenplays with the hope of making a living from that writing alone. I was aided in that effort by two important mentors: Peter Bart and Leslie Cox, my then partner's BFF who was Peter's wife, support that was lost when I divorced Leslie's BFF; nonetheless, I persevered. I focused on screenplays because Peter believed doing so would improve my story and character development (it did) and four screenplays were requested by studios to be read, but as you might suspect, were never optioned.
I also enrolled in the Creative Writing Master's Program at West Chester University, but near the turn of the Millennium with only three courses needed to complete the program and having turned fifty, I reached an inflection point in my life: move to Hollywood as a barista at Starbucks with hard copies of my screenplays behind the counter with the hope of discovery, or pursue my career in education.
I did choose the latter but I never stopped writing. And while I still dabble at screenwriting from time to time, I have spent the past twenty-five years doing what I love best: crafting literary fiction. It is only now that I am able and willing to share with satisfaction and pride some of the many titles I have self-published over the years but never seriously marketed because I am a writer and not a marketeer. I do not plan to take advantage of the many marketing strategies available for independently published authors, but will be sharing my website and hard copies of my work when the spirit and opportunity move me to do so.
If you have read this far, I hope you will consider giving my work a read. And if you enjoy the literary fiction written during the first half of the last century, which would make you a member of a small minority of people buying novels today, I am confident you will enjoy reading mine.
I am inspired by the characters that bubble up from my subconscious. I lose myself in imagining the lives that appear, and in due time, I begin to imagine plot lines and settings and begin to write. Like most writers of literary fiction, there is much that is seemingly magical and deeply and strangely psychological in what I experience during the writing process, but when I begin to put words "to paper" via my laptop, I relish both the art and technicality of writing. The most enjoyable part of my process comes after a novel has been completed. It is then that I explore the magic that can come from changing the genders and/or sexual preferences of characters until I arrive at characters with whom I feel deep empathy. That arrival creates novels that do feel truly magical to me, and I hope to readers willing to dive into them!
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