Novels By Me

At the end of yesterday's post, I mentioned that I have also done my own writing. Yes, that is true so far I have written two complete novels or at least drafts that may never be published or available to the public to buy and check out from the local library to read.

I would like to take a little time to discuss the two novels that are complete (or at least complete in their current form) though and perhaps pique your interest.

The Zumba Class - is the first novel that I have completed and it is centered around a group of characters who have one thing in common, which is a Thursday night Zumba class. We have the instructor Cassidy who is young and an abusive relationship. We have three other women from the class Cindy, a white middle-aged divorcee, Tabitha an African American professor of Philosophy close to retirement, and Mary, the daughter of Mexican immigrants who is a chef and co-owns a restaurant and is quite promiscuous. There is also June, a Korean American who starts to date Cassidy and Ron a white gay middle-aged man who wants June. We follow the story as these women form a group with the idea of starting a kind of book club, but then turns into more drama between the women than anything else. Some of the things that happen are that Tabitha lets Cassidy stay with he since she left her abusive boyfriend and almost immediately after this Cassidy starts dating June. And June doesn't realize until he is in a relationship with Cassidy that Ron might want him and starts to question his own sexuality. This all leads to an event that will change all their lives!

Betty and Clark - the second novel that I have completed is about Betty, who is nearly seventy who lives by herself in a farm house in the hills of eastern Tennessee. She is a strong independent woman who has lived by herself for many years after her husband died in a freak accident on the farm. Clark is fresh out of high school and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his parents. His girlfriend of a couple of years who he was planning to spend his life with was killed in a car accident while he was driving just a short time before they were going to move into an apartment together. Clark's life is shattered and goes into a deep depression and even tries to kill himself. One day he decides he needs to get out of Dodge and takes some belongings, all his money, gets into his truck and starts driving. He got off the main interstate at some point and crashes his car in Betty's front yard during an ice storm. This is the start of a love story between a man and a woman with about a fifty year age difference that would have never been possible in any other set of circumstances. They eventually start their own booth at the local Farmer's Market and call their business "Betty and Clark" of course! This is a novel that will possibly challenge some views and lead to thinking about why a big difference in age between two people is not necessarily an issue or should be one in the first place.

I have also started a spy novel that is centered around the country of Belarus that I stopped when the war in Ukraine started because I feel like that is a big event that changes some things for the plot of that book. However, I was having fun writing it and think that I might try to get back to it because surely there are still people in Belarus fighting at least underground for a free and independent Belarus. I am thinking about giving it a go again this summer and see where it goes.

There is another novel that I have barely started earlier this year that is hardly worth mentioning because I haven't even gotten past the prologue. It centers around a woman finding one of her neighbors, an elderly gentleman, doing naked yoga behind a house that burnt down earlier in the year while she was walking her dog. The woman, her husband, or the elderly gentleman have no idea that the elderly gentleman is the woman's husband's father or what other connections they will find in their neighborhood with neighbors they hardly knew before events start to unfold. Please mind me on that description because I am still thinking or haven't thought through everything yet on this one.

I will keep you this blog updated about my writing.

To wrap this up, I hope that if my novels ever were to be published that this post might pique your interest enough to think about wanting to get a copy to read for yourself!