Waiting & Writing

Waiting on some good news from my agent and working on LAUREL AVENUE, my new book. Just when I thought I'd have a productive day of writing I get a call inviting me to go kayaking. Love kayaking but it is very hot outside. I've made a deal with myself that if I get a chapter finished I'll go but then I might get sidetracked and watch Michael Jackson's funeral.

Photo: Maxwell, Cubby & Ricky in a limo on the way to a Madonna concert.

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY

Today's a day to celebrate with friends and family. Turn off your computer and go to the beach, have a barbeque and watch the fireworks.

The Story of SOUTH BEACH STAR

SOUTH BEACH STAR is a fictional account of a nightlife writer's adventures in wonderland and is filled with a cast of interesting characters reminiscent of Holly Golightly of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and Little Kiwi from Ethan Mordden's BUDDIES. Imagine THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA but the main character gets a job as a nightlife reporter and suddenly finds himself fighting to survive in a BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY world while partying with the crew from CELBUTANTES.

Boy George & Cubby

There was always a party.
1. Jung, Joey Arias & Sherry Vine
2. Queen Latifah & Elaine Lancaster at Warsaw
3. Boy George & Cubby

George Plimpton & Me

Like writer George Plimpton, my life has been filled with lots of interesting situations in a variety of locations. Before landing in South Beach, I had adventures (also without Peter Pan) in the cities of Los Angeles (3 times), San Francisco, New York (twice), Richmond (that's in Virginia), and Roanoke (also in Virginia. There are several more books in the works inspired by those ventures including LAUREL AVENUE (a Hollywood tale filled with gossip, the struggle for fame, a faux kidnapping, comedians, writers, would-be-actors, nosy neighbors and one bubbly blonde sitcom star), BORN UNDER A STAR (a university student leaves school in Virginia for a magical adventure in San Francisco, a city he has never visited where he knows no one, however, he finds friends, a purpose, and a new life), and FINDING YOUR SPOTLIGHT (a young New York actor discovers a friend in his sixty-eight-year-old landlady who was once a Ziegfeld girl and traveled the world before she settled for a life in the basement apartment of her Upper West Side brownstone). Photo: Cubby & writer George Plimpton