In Book 1, Freudian Slip, Mike Melone, the protagonist, is forced to break away from his native stomping ground. Due to his lighthearted mindset, a rash mistake entraps a young and inexperienced Mike Melone in amorous intrigue, turning his life upside down and compelling him to leave his country. While starting over, Mike remains burdened by the recollections of the past that pose metamorphic obstacles painful to overcome: a strong attachment to Domenti, his grandfather who raised and mentored him, a lustful affair with obsessive elite mistress Helen Harold who insidiously conspired to possess him, and a sincere affinity with his disabled staunch friend Tina Spalding who covertly cherished her zestful love with him. He faces the challenge of starting from scratch and braves consequential adventurous twists and turns.
In Book 2, On the Other Side of the Fence, a clean canvas begins to fill with collages of colorful portraits of a flamboyant stripper, Ingrid Berg, and an amicable gay limo driver, GG (Greg Gordon), whose exceptional fidelity fosters Mike’s headway from the ground up and his penetration of Diane Macalister’s multimillion-dollar empire. When Mike, an already established entertainer, by a twist of fate, comes across a best-selling book that mirrors his 15-year-old story, his life is reversed to a quest to find the author, Tina Spalding. However, the wheel of fortune does not stop on the happy end and keeps spinning, landing the wedge on puzzles Mike and Tina have to pay a price to solve and leave bygones behind.
YOU MADE MY DAY (romantic drama/adventure) is a duology that covers two milestone decades of the past century – from the late 1970s to the 2000s. It symbolically juxtaposes the tough wave of changes with the hero’s controversial journey, urging him to reconsider his moral and spiritual values to survive. The book meticulously researches the relationships that erratically pulsate as the plot develops on the background of two culturally diverse platforms, two politically confronting locations, and two socially alienated societies. It is predominantly for the young adult reader. It depicts the Baby Boomer epoch, a generation that crossed the millennium timeline staying free from the smothering artificial intelligence and gadget mania, and loyal to the values of the 20th century. On the other hand, the elderly reader also would scarcely deny a chance to share a sensation from a nostalgic time-travel, as the style and tone of the book offer.
What can you expect sitting by a fireplace that anxiously throws blazing tips of flames like already-forgotten questions up the chimney and entices you to find answers for them? You stare at glowing logs that exhale heat and regretfully wait for them to expire soon, turning their crackling hurricane into a subtly hissing breeze that will blow the ashes away along with the memories of the past. An unbidden question begins to pierce you through – when… how long is left to have your old bones warmed and house gladdened with love and joy?
It WAS the spirit of the ’70s through ’80s – the cream of times that turned us into witnesses of the rapidly changing world, colorful pages of which are still prone to scroll in our memories like flipping the channels with a remote control; you keep on pressing the buttons and deeper you travel in time that was so precious to you.
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