Current Projects
Flame of Resistance, available for
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C’est fini! That’s ‘it is finished’ in French and describes my current project Flame of Resistance.
Flame is set in the middle of a WWII story, set in Normandy on the brink of D-Day. There’s a French Resistance worker, a prostitute, and a downed American pilot, dead-ringer for an archetypal German; there’s a bridge for which the Allies need critical intel for the coming invasion, there’s a Germans-only brothel located near the bridge, patronized by bridge personnel…and there’s a crazy-hatched scheme to infiltrate the brothel with the American pilot to get intel on the bridge. Spies, prostitutes, Germans, and Milice (the French equivalent of Gestapo) mix with calls of duty, crises of conscience, and bombs bursting in air for a story centered on the spearhead action of D-Day: Pegasus Bridge.
If you think this sounds like a contemporary retelling of the Rahab story, A., you’re right, B., you’re crazy to pick that up, and C., well, there isn’t a C, but I like to lay things out in threes.
Next up: a contemporary impressionistic quasi-retelling of the Jonah story. Working title: Jonah Girl. Yeah, a Jonah story with a girl protagonist. Weird, but key in on the words “quasi” and “impressionistic”, words of which I am fond: they let me stick to theme, and theme trumps plot any old day. Theme drives plot. Theme is the reason for plot to exist. Oh, don’t get me started, because I will open up a can of Theme in this room. Book should roll out a year or so after Flame of Resistance.