Thanks for starting this thread, matsya. Have you been working on anything new?
My new book, There Are No Tropes in San Tropez, is being published at Frontier Publishing. They're running a chapter a month and chapter 1 just went live. There will be 10 chapters total.
Here's the introduction:
There Are No Tropes in San Tropez is a story about a woman named Lucy. She is middle-aged and works a desk job in computers. The one thing she wants more than anything else is a child. But because of her handicap she is unable to have one.
Lucy visits a fortune teller named Lady Rene. Lady Rene tells Lucy she can help her have a child, "but first, my dear, you must do something for me." That something leads a nice, average woman to do some out-of-character, possibly illegal, things. As for Lady Rene, she might have magical powers, and she might be mentally ill.
This is also a story about a young man named Snoz. He is consumed with winning back Emily, his lost love. Emily is bright and determined, a gallery director in New Orleans. Snoz is listless and has artistic aspirations that he denies. His meditations on instinct, biological drives, and the concept of memory factor significantly within.
Meanwhile, they have a mutual friend named Elio who is dying.
The story moves from a fairy tale to a workplace to the cramped, narrow streets of the French Quarter, which run not on the blood of vampires and the victims of voodoo, but on just what everything else does: money.
Nurture tempts us from our glories
As Nature lights our way;
'Cause unlike in the stories,
There are no tropes in San Tropez. |
