About
I've been writing novels a long time and now I think - if you pressed me - that they're getting good. I've worked as a copywriter, a psychologist, an English professor and a proofreader.
I don't have time for hobbies because writing consumes me. If I had a hobby, it would be writing ... so I could escape from the daily grind of writing.
Description
<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
Story Behind The Book
What is it like to be a young actress starting on your career and yet uncertain what kind of person you want to be ... ?
Reviews
<p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">"We are proud to announce that ACTRESS by Keith Dixon is a B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree. This tells a reader that this book is well worth their time and money!" (IndieB.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree)</span></p>
<p>"<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">This is excellent contemporary fiction, an engrossing story about an actress searching for what she really wants in her life set against the background of a tooth and claws competition for the lead role in a film." - Tahlia Newland, Awesome Indie Awards.</span></p>
