Grandmas Goulash

Lance Duquette is the perpetual male lead of Sharpville’s small town theater productions. Onstage and off, females vie to be his leading lady, seemingly blinded to Lance’s love-them-and-leave-them attitude. Backstage, Jimmy Hopkins helps with props and dreams of capturing the attention of makeup artist and wannabe playwright, Melody Light. Just as romance starts to bloom, Lance focuses his attentions on Melody. Deranged with jealousy, Jimmy threatens to make this play, Lance’s last. When Duquette’s body is discovered backstage before the final performance, all eyes turn towards Jimmy. Only Melody believes that he is innocent. She writes her first play,  Backstage , a reenactment of the events surrounding the crime, in an attempt to exonerate Jimmy Can Melody’s creative ploy save Jimmy? Watch drama unfold backstage, while  Backstage  unfolds on stage, and learn what happens in a chilling and unscripted final act. Book Blurb Friday is hosted by Lisa Ricard Claro, who

For years, Windy Bay had been home to fishing and boating enthusiasts. Now it harbored a thief. Locals and tourists had been victimized, but none could identify the stealthy perpetrator. When police are stumped, Detective Sam McAllister is summoned. After two months, McAllister’s sterling reputation begins to tarnish. Despite his best efforts, he has found just one common link. All the victims recall the presence of a black dog. The town explodes in laughter, when McAllister points his finger at the canine. Sam renews his efforts, determined to find the person behind the dog. Was it the sultry Melanie Evans? Why would a self-professed dog hater have a stash of Chewy Bonz and Bacon Tidbits? Could it be Ed Jenkins, proprietor of the suddenly-successful hardware store? Follow Sam’s hilarious search, as he chases a bevy of unlikely suspects. And finds himself falling for a dog named Butler. Book Blurb Friday  is hosted by Lisa Ricard Claro, who posts a weekl

Book Blurb Friday, hosted by Lisa Ricard Claro of  Writing In The Buff , is just a couple weeks shy of its first birthday. Time has not diminished my enthusiasm for this wonderful meme, and it has provided me with a wealth of story ideas and an abundance of reading pleasure. That pleasure is sometimes accompanied by the frustration of unfinished stories, but I’m far too hooked too give it up. This blurb is dedicated to Lisa, who promotes “the naked truth” in writing. Hope you enjoy it, Lisa. Thanks for a wonderful year of blurbs. Mandy Hawkins was barely twelve, when she caught the eye of a wealthy businessman, who was passing through the small shantytown. Before the day was over, her father was hiding a wad of cash in the plot behind their shack and Mandy was the bride of a fifty-year-old man.   Lisa Auburn is a freelance writer, struggling for recognition. Searching for inspiration, she decides to record her great-grandmother’s story. Mandy recalls  he