The Author

A former resident of South Jersey, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the author now resides in Orlando, Florida. He has previously written five novels, which can be found on his author page at Amazon.com.

Just to the Right of Disneyland

This is a story of the birth of a new theme park in Southern California called SkyRoads.

The designers and investors begin with the best of intentions. They want to balance ideas like “It’s a small world after all” with ideas like “In America we speak English.” But big construction projects seldom go exactly as planned or budgeted. Some of the good intentions are met with centuries-old hostility, and the designers and investors are left bickering over what kind of park to build. Do they compromise and accommodate? In the age of Trump, compromise was considered weakness. Should they plow ahead and present concepts that modern cultures need to hear? Or should they act reasonably?

Leith, one of the lead designers, is a workaholic who is content in a loving, stable marriage that doesn’t require much maintenance. Until he realizes that’s just the theme-park version of marriage.

Just to the Right of Disneyland is soon to be published. Check back for updates.

Transmedia Storytelling

This form of fiction can utilize multiple media platforms to tell a unified story from different observation points, like eBooks, websites, games, and social media. In addition to the eNovel and print editions of Just to the Right of Disneyland, an Instagram account identified with the name of the central character, Leith A. Hamilton, has been created. It adds to the story told in the novel with additional images, videos, and accompanying texts. Photos establish how the central characters, Leith and Courtney, look, the house they live in, and the studio where Leith is a theme-park designer. 

Concept sketches from the book