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I won the Dark Oak Mystery Contest sponsored by Oak Tree Press, which published my first novel, A Lesson in Murder, about homicides associated with a Philadelphia Quaker school. My second novel, Feast or Famine, a fictionalized memoir, centers on a traumatized man dealing with his Philadelphia Catholic Italian American upbringing in the 1960's and 1970's. My third novel, Out of the Picture and its sequel The Bigger Picture are mysteries for movie lovers. I have short stories in the Delaware Valley Mystery Authors collection entitled Death Knell V, South Philly Fiction, published by Don Ron Books, and the Schuylkill Valley Journal. I have been honored for my writing by Annual Art Affair, Hidden River Arts, the annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition (for two plays), The Philadelphia Writers’ Conference, the Montgomery County Community College’s Annual Writers’ Club Poetry and Fiction Contest, Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards, and the Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest. I also write a film analysis blog entitled “My Meaningful Movies” on Blogger.
Plays
A doctor possibly seesthe ghsot of his grandfather whjich questions his skeptical beliefs about religion.
A female occupational therapist struggles with whether she can be intimate with a demanding paraplegic ex-professional baseball player who she tutored in college despite her history of being date-raped.