About me, Douglas Rickard
On an Amsterdam art college trip, I turned on the hotel room TV to...
Amanda and Sam's wedding on "Another World". It was my first glimpse of an American daytime soap opera - the larger-than-life characters in wanna-live places, broadcast with the simplicity of a stage play.
I don't know whether readers of my novel will remember 'stories' like "Guiding Light" playing when they got in from school - or whether they used to stay home when they shouldn't, to catch "Sunset Beach".
Within the bestseller pages of authors like Jackie Collins and Louise Bagshawe...
the intertwined daytime drama tropes of romance, tangled family trees and mystery have long been shared. I'm hopeful readers of my novel will enjoy something different that is a story somewhere between both.