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Charlie is so funny at times like this morning when we sat down to Homeschool Charlie and I showed him the cover of the book and asked what he thought of it and why. Charlie said why is there concrete in a old Western town and that is all he said. Nothing about the picture which when I look I see a old mining cave. What do you see and why?
I went over the synopsis of the book with Charlie and he didn’t like knowing the girl was named Charlie and thought she should be a boy. Then he went upstairs and I sat down to read the book. David came and sat next to me and asked what I was doing. I let David know I was going to read some of the book and instead of being quite he kept asking me questions.
I turned the TV off and decided to read the first chapter to David thinking he would get bored and move on. That didn’t happen and before I knew what was going on I had read three chapter and David didn’t want me to stop reading. Throughout the story Charlie would pop in and ask what was happening as well.
It was nice to find a book that captured both of there attention and we have plans to finish reading the book as a family I finished the story on my own and I liked the elements of suspense and mystery. Charlie is someone I would like to meet. I like how the story showcases PTSD and its a murder mystery and would make a wonderful movie of the week. I can also see this book becoming a must read story for everyone.
About the Book:
High school gossip…a death glare from a rival girl? Charlie takes them in stride.
But her mother’s murder and her dad’s disappearance send her off the rails. Therapy sessions get her to college, where she spots her missing dad in a film and races to Los Angeles to find him.
A lead takes her to a low budget zombie movie production in the desert. The crew say her dad died, but Charlie keeps investigating. Could the aging film star or the creepy man who writes in Russian Cyrillic script help lead her to her father? Or will Charlie find another truth, one she doesn’t want to hear?
About the author: Arthur Coburn
Arthur Coburn grew up in New Jersey, went to Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, passed the Washington bar, exam spent two years in the U.S. Infantry as a first Lieutenant, and survived a three-year law career, before bailing out and landing a job for King Screen Productions, a filmmaking Division of the KING Broadcasting Company in Seattle. His first assignment there was to make a chart of all the proposals for peace in Vietnam. He progressed to directing commercials, industrials and documentaries; later to writing educational film scripts for the same company. When the division closed, he worked as a freelance writer – doing environmental impact statements, and as a freelance still photographer.
After he left the law, Arthur wrote dramatic educational film scripts, and won a local Emmy for a documentary, then moved to Hollywood, where he edited more than two dozen films, including Spiderman, A Simple Plan and The Cooler. He is a member of Sisters in Crime and MWA; and he goes to writing conferences. He has taken a screen writing class John Truby, studied with poet and novelist Jim Krusoe at Santa Monica College. He took a class with author Kris Neri in mystery writing, and two courses with novelist and short story writer Tod Goldberg at UCLA. He has written five novels: Murder in Concrete (to be published in 2024) Murder in Madrona (currently in revision); and several awaiting care and review: MaBoys Will Be Boys, Mostly (general fiction), Rough Cut (a thriller). He won the Novel Prize at the Southern California Writer’s Conference in June 2005 for Rough Cut. His short stories, Some CreatureI Care About, and Backswing, appeared in Sisters in Crime Anthologies: LAmarked for Murder and Ladies Night.
Arthur is a member of the Motion Picture Academy and the Foreign Film Committe for which watches dozens of domestic films and upward of fifty films from all over the world in order to vote for best foreign film.
He has traveled and worked in Morroco, Poland, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Canada and France, speaks serviceable French and Italian and watches the French and Italian channels on cable. He learned enough Polish to order tomato soup without rice and enough Swahili to order hot water for a for a show in a desert encampment. Arthur skis, road bikes, and has a pilots’ license. Plays a little classical guitar and can improvise on the piano and Hammond organ. He has a B2 and a Leslie speaker at home.
He worked as a film editor in Hollywood on more than two dozen features.
His current novel, Murder in Concrete, was picked up by The Wild Rose Press largely due to the sympathetic eye and efforts of his fabulous editor, Dianne Rich of TWFP. She saw the novel’s value from the start and guided him past various hurdles to bring it home.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
