On an art college trip, I turned on the hotel TV - and there it was. Amanda and Sam’s wedding on Another World. Larger-than-life characters, wanna-live settings, all playing out with the raw intimacy of a stage play. I was hooked.
Maybe you raced home from school to catch Guiding Light - or stayed home when you definitely shouldn’t to watch Sunset Beach.
Romance, tangled family trees, mystery - daytime drama has always thrived on excess. But my novel? It plays with the boundaries, the tension, the desire that was always just out of reach. It’s not just a soap opera - it’s what happens when the heat rises between the lines.
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Why not subscribe for free to my blog. In my latest post on my writing, I take a deep-dive into the character of Debbie, who wore a lot of uniforms over the years. But only one ever followed her. However the uniform was never the story.
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"Oh, maybe I shouldn't have said that."
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
Thad Luckinbill as J.T. Hellstrom
Mitzi Kapture-Donahue as Anita Hodges
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