Note from the author -
All my books deal with ¨love¨ between a man and woman, whereas I try to inject as much humor as possible to lighten up what is actually a very serious topic. In eight of my books, I tried to put two very unlikely lovers together so “love” has to work its way into their respective hearts so it can come out victorious at the end. But as in real life, “love” even “true love” can’t always do it alone and therefore in my stories I provide “love” with two sisters, “Destiny” and “Truth.¨ I see them as a “trio” that travel around the world putting two people in need of “love” together, then they go on to their next mission.
Within my books, I also make brief mention or reference to characters of my other books creating some kind of link. This crossing of characters from one book to the other is in order that maybe someday I will have the opportunity to write a final book in which all my couples for some reason have a reunion.
Another oddity in my books is that all my main ladies names start with “J” as it is the tenth letter of the alphabet and my girls have to be tens.
One of my books, the seventh actually, is my own “love” story concerning a lady I met in Costa Rica and fell in love with never thinking I would ever “love” a woman again. That book doesn’t have an ending yet, at least not an ending I like but I will need to finish it one way or another soon.
The stories take place in various places where I have lived. They represent extremely different worlds such as is often the case with my characters, and they include a rural Arizona, hippy-ville San Francisco and Costa Rica.
Because of my financial limitations, all I basically have been able to do is to write the raw stories down. Thanks to Ede Phillips, who edited ¨A Baboon in the Elevator,¨ it is now published and available online (click here). I hope to roll out the rest of these love stories as they get proofread, edited and polished up with some adjectives, adverbs and upgraded vocabulary. There is no doubt that my grammar could be vastly improved upon by a pro.
Finally, I ask myself, “why, at this stage in my life, have I have become so fascinated about writing about love? I believe I’m trying to undo my failures of abusing and disrespecting “love” when I had it within my grasp. When I think back at my three marriages that honored me with eight children, seven of my own and one little boy that I cared for, son of my second wife, I realize that I had “love,” yet I didn’t cherish it and I let it slip through the cracks. I want my readers, especially my children, to understand the importance of “love” in their life and not to lose it when they find it.
All my book take place during contemporary times, in other words, during the years I was writing them (2005-present). I make small references in each book so the reader can ID the time it is occurring. Also, I am somewhat vague in my specific physical description of my “lovers” as I want my readers, as they get involved in the story, to be able to picture them as they want not as I mandate them to look like.
The titles and main theme of my books are as follows:
BOOK 1: A BABOON IN THE ELEVATOR
This is story of “hate at first sight” between two people. As they start taking revenge against each other they simultaneously fall in love. Setting: San Francisco.
BOOK 2: POOR MAN, RICH MAN, MY MAN
A story of how money affects a man-woman relationship when one (she) is extremely rich and the other (he) is fearful of having a rich woman in his life. Here the issue of whether a rich person can love as deeply as a poor person is highlighted. Setting: rural Arizona
BOOK 3: BAD COP, GOOD COP, MY COP
A story of how “love” copes with two sets of moral standards where one (he) is portrayed as a common thief (in reality is an undercover cop himself) and the other (she) is a young beautiful policewoman and needs to deal with the fact that she had fallen in love with what she dislikes the most: a criminal. Setting: the Bay Area, South Bay and Sacramento
BOOK 4: BAD NEIGHBOR, GOOD NEIGHBOR, MY NEIGHBOR
Here we see “love” pitted against a very rude and greedy man, not by nature but by a past hurt with an overly generous woman that is giving away her life’s earning to whomever. Love calls on his sister, “Truth,¨ at the end to bring these two extremes together. Setting: San Francisco and Costa Rica.
BOOK 5: SAD MAN, HAAPY MAN, MY MAN
In this book, we find a young man carrying a “monkey on his back.” He is negative about everything in life and believes he got a raw deal from his father. On the other hand, she is just the opposite, finding something positive about everything in life although she herself had a must darker past than him. Setting: San Francisco
BOOK 6: MY LADY´S LORDSHIP
This book takes place in a rural town in Arizona an addresses a very arrogant man who tries to run the town as his private kingdom since his factory employs over 25% of the town and controls the town’s economy. He finds himself matched up with a young woman from San Francisco who moves there thanks to sister ¨Destiny.¨ She enters his domain but while falling in love with him, has to tame him. Setting: Arizona
BOOK 7: DESTINY AT TORTILLA FLATS
This is my true story of returning to the country where I was born and falling in love with a lady. If I follow the formula of all my other books, I could only ask within this story, “Is it possible for a lady to fall in love with a tramp?” Walt Disney thought so.
