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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Story of How a Love Story Became a Book.....NEW RELEASE


I was having dinner at Bucky’s at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear when I saw an older distinguished man sipping a martini and staring through the back window at the horizon of the Gulf of Mexico as the sun set.  And I knew him—not his name or the name of the woman he was missing and privately toasting with his small sips of that martini.  But I knew him, and the concentration of his memories filled the space around him and drew me to him, like a love song.  Like the great old love songs, I grew up singing.  Those songs fit his story.

When I got home, I wrote this story that happened to me when I saw a man whose name came with the sunset and the martini and the black grand piano he kept eyeing longingly:  Franklin Lovejoy.  
So, in a way this story is autobiographical.  

 LOVEJOY was inspired by a real-life sighting of a man who had been deeply in love and as it turns out with more than one woman.  It’s part of the mystery of writing that stories come this way from chance encounters or in this case, a chance sighting.  This is Lovejoy’s story—and mine, in a way. I hope it will be one you enjoy too