Rebels have been at it since fall of 2019, across a long winter followed immediately by the COVID period. Rebs have met by Zoom, kept their projects moving forward, and critiqued each other’s work.
• Chris has been working with a script writer on a screenplay of his novel Jane’s Baby. Several of his novels are now are now available in audio and he is working on a sequel to his crime-cleaning novel Hiding Among the Dead. He is also pitching his new novel that involves the gun issue and an art heist.
• Dave completed a short story, “Fleeting Sky” and finished a first draft of his novel F-land, set in Philadelphia and Western Pa. and featuring a Catholic priest dealing with the drug scourge, economic issues, and other church topics.
• John published a letter in Mystery magazine and has been working with the Neshaminy literary journal. He has continued to work on his novel Refugees as well as his crime novel set in Bucks County in 1943.
• Jackie has has continued to develop the outline of her novel set at the Jersey shore and involving a family and a missing child in the 1950s. Meanwhile she has been finishing and submitting short stories for submission to literary journals.
• Martha has queried her salty novel, Killing Tides, set in Sarasota, Florida and has been working on outlining and drafting the initial sections of a sequel to that novel. She is also in early stages of a new novel project set in a preparatory boarding school.
• Russ has completed his novel set on the Delaware Bay and Sussex County, Del. during WWII. He has also excerpted and adapted a chapter of his novel set in Native America and submitted it as a short story for publication. He finished another revision of his “harlots club” novel and has been querying several of his completed novels. Additionally, he is working with an established co-writer/producer on a detailed treatment for a movie or mini-series in anticipation of moving this concept to screenplay form.
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