My Abstract Expressionist Period #1, 1969
2025: Launch of Gossamer Wings, a sequel to Flights of Fancy
In this sequel to the 2024 Flights of Fancy, the setting is her estate in New York’s Hudson Valley. Sage is in a luxurious, if lonesome and restless 2020 pandemic lockdown with her cagey mother and staff, awaiting a vaccine for deadly Covid-19 and a chance to escape. Her mother and staff want out, too, ever bowing to Sage’s pandemic hygiene regimen and whims. The creative Sage now fancies herself a writer/illustrator of children’s books featuring her beagle’s adventures in France.
Sage is stuck in her own childhood. She yearns to know her biological father and gathers the courage (and saliva specimen) to find him via DNA. Her relationship with her disapproving mother boils over, and the revelation of her family's DNA threatens to send Sage into a tailspin. Horseback rides and solitary walks with her beagle constitute her waking life. She longs to return to her condo on the Mediterranean Sea in the South of France. For years, African migrants have stumbled ashore there, seeking work and finding shelter underwritten by a pitying Sage. Charity toward migrants aside, Sage is cut off from most humans. The estate’s working stiffs –– some who entered her world in Flights of Fancy––bear their own emotional scars. Staff changes make for strange bedfellows, all waiting for a vaccine and life to change. They all dream of the freedom money buys. But when Sage gets the all-clear to escape New York, she must choose between drowning in her family’s drama or living a dream.
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Sage Anthony is a mystery writer, achingly pigeonholed into a genre that bores her. Murder in medieval convents and abbeys are her stock and trade, but she cannot write gore anymore. After growing up in New York’s Hudson Valley minus a biological father, taunted by a homicide-detective stepfather and wary of Stepfather#2, Sage’s mind is rife with suspicion. Blunt trauma to her head makes her thirty-something life tortured, even though she lives in a loft apartment on the New Paltz, New York estate of a old billionaire who is obsessed with her––but then, so was his wife.
Her Irish-born mother is similarly guarded in her affairs, critical of Sage’s choices, and she fumes as a 21st century American patriot. Alas, her daughter is not tuned into incendiary politics. Sage's life proves the maxim, “What you think about expands.” Luck follows as Sage strikes it rich and does as she fancies at her own New Paltz estate and in France. France is where the book takes you more than once, the last trip capped by a February 2020 stopover in Milan for Fashion Week.
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