Author of Lucy's Last Honeymoon in Havana
When Lucille Ball goes to Castro's Cuba, it’s lights, camera, espionage… Hollywood, 1959. Lucille Ball’s life is not what it seems. Behind the laughs of the camera, her marriage to Desi Arnaz is falling apart. When upstart dictator Fidel Castro invites “America’s Sweethearts” to Cuba…
The first glimmer of this idea popped into my head 35 years ago, in 1983. Recently graduated from college, I was riding in a car on the way to a local writing conference, and one of the other passengers, a writer who had sold a television script, asked me what I was working on. I told her I hoped to … [Read More...] about Why a Novel Based on Lucille Ball?
As an author or co-author I’ve published several books on multimedia and Web software development. I began college at the University of Chicago as a biochemistry major, graduated in 1982 with a degree in English Literature, and immediately jumped into the software industry as a programmer/entrepreneur. All this finally made sense when in 1995 I combined my technical and story-telling skills to design, produce, and edit an interactive documentary about the Grand Canyon, which led me back to my creative roots. In my other profession, as an Internet Program Manager, I’ve worked on exciting projects at several brilliant companies: RealNetworks, Microsoft, HTC, Disney, Nintendo, and currently, Amazon.com. I live in Washington State, just outside of Seattle, with my cute wife, Nancy and our too-lazy-to-be-vicious Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Pumpkin Pie. We have six children, Micha, Kristen, Coby, Ryan, and Ariel, Raviv, and two grandchildren, Jensen and Iyar.
