Blurb From My First Book

"Arrested Development

Chapter One:

Everyone remembers where they were when Shane Murphy became an orphan. At 8:14 on the morning of Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, James and Janet Murphy boarded United Airlines flight 175 heading home to Los Angeles. Forty-nine minutes later, they would lose their lives on live TV as their plane struck the south tower of the World Trade Center.  Three thousand miles away, on the set of Days of Our Lives, Shane watch his parents die."

Keep in mind, this is a work in progress. But here is the opening to my new book.

Insomnia Induced Novels

While laying in bed, trying to sleep, I finally came up with my first novel. And it's title: "The Kid With Cancer". Be prepared to cry.

So, basically, this good kid-early 20's secretly goes to the doctor and finds out that the leukemia he had as a teenager has returned. In full force. The book opens with the doctor giving him the news that he's going to die. The book is about the last year of his life.

The opening sentence (which I'm not 100% sold on) is: "The one undeniable fact that everyone is denying is that I'm going to die."

The story behind the title is that, when he was a teenager and was first diagnosed with leukemia, he was known in his high school as "the kid with cancer". It went into remission by middle of senior year, he goes to prom, graduates, then goes to college. 

In college, he meets the love of his life, they love in together, and then he starts getting sick. He hides it the best that he can, but sneaks away and gets the fateful doctor's appointment.