The Blue Kimono is a memoir on Shelley's journey through infertility and assisted reproduction.  It's a book about the meaning of life, love, and motherhood.  The book gets its title from a tiny outfit that the author buys at the Suitengu fertility shrine in Japan in the hopes that she would soon have someone to wear it.  Five years later, the blue kimono still collects dust in her closet. After undergoing six fertility treatments, she vows never to let another needle puncture her body again. Then one day while walking through a village in the Swiss Alps, she happens upon a small, unadorned church. She goes in and sits in one of the pews. From somewhere within a voice tells her that she cannot give up. What happens next is nothing short of a miracle.
     $11.99 + $5 for S&H
The ten stories that make up Evening in Missoula all take place on the same cold November evening in Missoula, Montana.  The characters, who range in nature from a grizzled Vietnam vet to a visiting Ivy League professor, prove to be inexplicably intertwined with one another.  Their lives intersect at points of crisis: In “Continuing Education” a middle-aged woman confronts the teacher who molested her twenty years prior, and in “The Wolf” a born-again Christian bus driver confronts his checkered past when an enigmatic passenger reminds him of a woman he once accosted.  In “Midnight” a young coed faces the painful prospect of leaving her high school sweetheart for the exotic older cowboy who wants to elope with her, and in “Going to Paris” a woman seeks to realize her deceased brother’s dreams of leaving Montana and starting a business in Paris.

                 $8.99 + $5 for S&H  
                           
                        
A.B.D. is the first in a series of mystery novels featuring Jan McCann, Quaker detective.  In A.B.D. Jan receives a phone call from her mentor, Hugo Diener.  He urges her to see him at once. By the time she reaches his office, he’s dead. An autopsy determines that he died of strychnine poisoning after eating a Mozartkugel, a chocolate that Jan herself has placed in his cubbyhole.  She soon realizes she’s been framed.  The next day, Jan narrowly escapes an attempt on her life.  She relies on non-violent Quaker principles and the loose worldwide fellowship of Friends in pursuit of the murderer.  Her investigation takes her from a Quaker meetinghouse to a jazz club in Nigeria, from a masquerade ball in Vienna to a slum in Kiev.  What she doesn’t realize is that the key to unlocking the mystery of the murderer’s identity can be found among the pages of her dissertation.

Coming soon!
FOX (screenplay): Suburban housewife Maggie Stone receives a mysterious visitor from the past: George Fox, founder of the Quakers.  A single-minded man with a strict adherence to truth and simplicity, he clashes with Maggie’s world of consumerism and deceit.  She initially rejects this oddly-dressed man, but his intrusion into her life sparks her curiosity.   She begins to visualize scenes from Fox’s life; his stint as itinerant preacher in the English countryside, his vision on Pendle Hill, and his courtship of Margaret Fell, the judge’s wife and proprietress of Swarthmoor Hall.  Scenes from 17th-century England are interspersed with scenes from Maggie’s life; the extravagant birthday party she throws for her six-year-old, her frequent trips to the spa, and her renovation of an already perfect McMansion.  At the same time, a string of robberies in Maggie’s upscale neighborhood has everyone on edge.  Is this stranger from the past really who he says he is?  
In progress
Light and Dark (screenplay): When Phoebe McMann’s family leaves on vacation without her, her staid existence as suburban housewife is turned upside down.  First, a down-and-out high school classmate insinuates herself back into Phoebe’s life, prodding Phoebe to take a ride on the wild side.  Then, a hunky electrician shows up to offer a welcome diversion from her unappreciative husband.  Next, a trio of con artists posing as the neighborhood Welcome Wagon barges into her home and wreaks havoc.  In the meantime, Phoebe’s controlling friend Sharon—suffering from infertility—conspires to kidnap her three children.  Amidst the chaos Phoebe discovers a long lost piece of herself—her talent as a painter—and what really matters in life.
Completed