Non-Fiction
He’s History was inspired by my own experience of being dumped in my 50s for a younger woman after 18 years of marriage.
I was lucky enough to have a recently divorced girlfriend to scrape me off the floor, drag me out to get my hair colored, and teach me the basics of Divorce 101.Now I have become the savvy girlfriend who survived the divorce from hell and has become an expert on what older women need to know about divorce.
In this book I share what I’ve learned, in a chatty, humorous style, plus include information gleaned from interviews with many top experts in the field.
“A Doctor’s Guide to Weight Loss Surgery; How to make the decision that could save your life.” explains how the severity of obesity is graded and who is a candidate for weight loss surgery.
Fiction
The last thing zaftig middle-aged journalist, Rhoda Ginsburg, expected when she signed up for JDate was to fall in love with a vampire.
But when she meets drop-dead gorgeous Sheldon, a Hasidic vampire, she falls hard. She rationalizes that he may not be alive, but at least he’s Jewish.
She learns that back in the nineteenth century Sheldon was a rabbi who was turned into a vampire by Count Dracula, an anti-Semite who got his kicks from turning Orthodox Jews into vampires because then they’d have to drink blood, which isn’t kosher.
Soon after she meets Sheldon, she discovers her beloved mother, Fanny, is terminally ill, so she comes up with the crackpot idea of getting Sheldon to turn Fanny and her friends, known as “the goils,” into vampires. Once she becomes a vampire, Fanny tires of her boring life in Century Village, Florida, and, seeking thrills, she goes clubbing and disappears into the nightlife of South Beach in Miami. When Fanny and her goil posse “go rogue” and start preying on the young, Rhoda and Sheldon must track them down to keep them from killing again.
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Norma is a foster care caseworker in her mid thirties who works for the New York State Juvenile Authority.
Her office is in the New York State Office Building on125th Street in Harlem. It’s the late 70s, long before Harlem’s renaissance (Bill Clinton now has an office in the State Office Building) and 125th Street is filthy and dangerous,populated by derelicts and addicts and lined with crumbling abandoned buildings and deserted storefronts.
Norma’s job is supervising foster homes in the north Bronx. Her life is turned upside down when Leslie Powers, the only foster child on her caseload who has beaten the odds to graduate high school with honors and get a college scholarship, is found dead of an overdose in an alley in Harlem. The police have written off her death as just another black junkie who OD’d. However Norma and Ella Gaines, Leslie’s foster mom,refuse to accept that verdict.Ella Gaines, Norma’s sidekick, is also her role model, a feisty, outspoken force of nature who knows everyone who is anyone in the social service bureaucracy and wields political power within the Juvenile Authority establishment.
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