Novels & Screenplays
About the Novels
WHISTLE ME A WOMAN
Growing up in Mississippi I heard of Emmett Till’s murder and have always been haunted by it.
Summer, 1955. Spurned by blacks and whites, Delilah can pass for white and is desperate to escape the murderous lust of Mississippi racists. Based on the true story of Emmett “Bobo” Till, who comes to visit, whistles at a white woman and is murdered — Delilah’s life is put in great danger when she kills a man and runs for her life.
EVANGELINE, A TALE OF LOVE
English soldiers separate Evangeline on her wedding day from her beloved Gabriel and scatter the Acadians across colonial America. Searching for lost love, “Evangeline, a Tale of Love” is based on the worldwide best-seller “Evangeline,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s long narrative poem.
JORDAN WAS HERE
Goosewing Beach
Jordan Wilde and her college roommate Gin O’Malley burn their bras and demonstrate against Vietnam in the 1960’s. Gin wants marriage; Jordan wants a career. The girls switch dreams when Gin’s fiancée is killed by a bomb, and Jordan gets pregnant. Jordan marries Senator Ben Moore in a fairy tale wedding, but her dreams shatter in a nasty divorce. She fights against depression and falls in love with a married man. (A modern version of “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin)
Novels-In-Progress
REBA ROADHOUSE AND THE PALLBEARERS
Eight female pallbearers carry the body of journalist Reba Roadhouse, who refuses to “rest in peace” and talks to them from the dead.
THE WOMEN’S HOLY GROUND
Casket girls from a Paris convent for orphans and penniless noblewomen pack belongings in a trunk (casket) and set sail to find husbands in Dauphin Island, Alabama, capital of the New World in 1704. One virgin rebels, refuses her prearranged marriage and falls in love with a heathen, a wild Indian. First called Massacre Island due to skulls explorers find, the island’s Indian Mound is the opposite – it’s a sacred burial site, Ohola Houla Asha, the Women’s Holy Ground.
MOTHER, DAUGHTER AND HOLY GHOST
A mother, a daughter and a ghost. A husband mysteriously disappears deep sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and haunts the women he loved and left behind on a barrier island threatened by coastal erosion.
TRUE SIN
Developers try to build 200 houses on a sand spit on a barrier island, supposedly federally protected land, but political connections overrule rules.
THE HANGING STONE
An outcast because of her red hair, a young girl is spurned as a spawn of the devil in 5th century Ireland.
THE BRIDGE CLUB
Four women at a bridge table are each dealt a different hand in the game of life.
Screenplays
WHISTLE ME A WOMAN
Based on the true story of Emmett “Bobo” Till, who comes to visit, whistles at a white woman and is murdered — Delilah’s life is put in great danger when she kills a man and runs for her life. (Follows same plot as novel above)
JORDAN WAS HERE
Jordan Wilde and her college roommate Gin O’Malley burn their bras and demonstrate against Vietnam in the 1960’s. Gin wants marriage; Jordan wants a career. The girls switch dreams when Gin’s fiancée is killed by a bomb, and Jordan gets pregnant. Jordan marries Senator Ben Moore in a fairy tale wedding, but her dreams shatter in a nasty divorce. (Follows same plot as novel above)
Mint Julep at Sunset
EVANGELINE, A TALE OF LOVE
English soldiers separate Evangeline on her wedding day from her beloved Gabriel and scatter the Acadians across colonial America. (Follows same plot as novel above)
THE RATTLESNAKE QUEEN OF SWEETWATER, TEXAS
Kitten Bodette breaks her girlfriend out of a psych hospital, and they lead cops on a merry chase across Texas in a Cadillac convertible.
THE SEDUCTION OF DAVID
A body washes up on the seashore. David is not dead, just drunk.
NEW ORLEANS LADIES
Two single women go on a manhunt, party it up in the Big Easy to no avail and find true love in art and in nature, fighting to save sea turtles.
STRETCHPANTS
Women, their lives and loves.
PLAYS for children
The Bayou Queen and the Red Bean
The Voodoo Queen and the Swamp Monster
All indigenous to Louisiana with hurricanes, oysters, pirogues, pirates, voodoo and Cajun absurdities. As director of Louisiana’s Children’s Theatre, we brought live theatre to over 20,000 school children.