Books

Downsizing

I have this novel categorized as Suspense/Thriller but it may end up in comic fiction with my others. I hope you'll give it a try. It was based on my experiences in corporate America, and if the downsizing scenes ring true, you just may find yourself rooting for the murderer.

Fitting in

Gina Pioricci is growing up fat, holy, and smart, and feels more like she's living in Italy than America. As she tries to lose weight, her next-door neighbor uses her diet as comedy material, her uncles make bets against her, and her parents keep her in the kitchen preparing food. Her family is certain she will become a nun, but she wants to do more with her life than pray for lottery numbers.

FAT CAMP

Sara Lee Jacobs has been overweight her entire lonely life. Peggy Jenkins-Hall sacrificed her hard-earned figure to her third and final child. Both women are obsessed with their weight and enroll in an exclusive diet program called Sunrise, which touts an incredible success rate. They soon understand why. Instead of the usual starvation and aerobic exercise, they are coupled with gorgeous men in a Paradise-like setting where they receive undivided attention and plenty of TLC.

State of Disgrace

Released as an ebook and written with humor and affection for my Catholic school upbringing, this novel is about one woman's struggle to find a steady job and a man she can love.

Mother

MOTHER received some wonderful reviews and is a favorite for book club discussion. The story focuses on two women from different generations who have lost their mothers and help each other heal.

Jitters (now an ebook on Amazon.com and Smashwords.com)

If I hadn’t chosen an alternative route with my first book JITTERS (rejected from agents/editors alike in two separate decades) I would never have sold the project to Lifetime. Believe me when I tell you this book couldn’t have been any more rejected, and yet it managed to get some decent reviews as well as a TV movie deal for Lifetime. When I originally shopped it to publishers, no one bought into the idea that a woman could be commitment phobic. (Written in 1980.)

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