![]() ![]() ![]() I know the date because I made up a title page for it. In my files somewhere I have my first “novel” that I wrote when I was eight years old. It was a short step from reading to wanting to write books for myself. I was always a sit-around-and-daydream kind of kid. My mother was a voracious reader of romances and horror stories–Stephen King and Dean Koontz and Danielle Steele–and I was always drawn to books in that way. Here the author discusses his family, his habit of getting sidetracked by the love stories, and the thrill of finding his true subject. They’re ready to cut the trip short when a chance encounter with Clara, a beautiful socialite, and Max, her lover, opens the door to an intoxicating world of drama and desire. ![]() Set in the fall of 1957, Chip Cheek’s mesmerizing debut novel Cape May is the story of Henry and Effie, two young newlyweds from Georgia who arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the beach town deserted. ![]()
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