Novels/Books
Concrete Wings: One Man's Fifty-Year Journey to personal freedom
Concrete Wings: One Man's Fifty-Year Journey to personal freedom
Concrete Wings: One Man's Fifty-Year Journey to personal freedom
A naïve teen sent out of Cuba to retrieve smuggled family jewels on the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion comes of age in New York City at the height of the sexual revolution and earns his political and economic freedom. By a twist of fate, he begins to lose his liberty when his oppressive parents arrive and refuse to assimilate into American Society. Take the journey and discover why success isn’t always measured by what one becomes, but often by what one overcomes.
Five Star Readers' Favorite
Literary Classics Seal of Approval
Speak Up Radio Firebird Book Award
Women, Work and Triumph: Interviews with fascinating Women
Concrete Wings: One Man's Fifty-Year Journey to personal freedom
Concrete Wings: One Man's Fifty-Year Journey to personal freedom
26 skilled diverse women from 5 countries in 26 careers from A – Z with
1 goal - acceptance and respect
Take the journey and discover;
Why the CREATIVE ARTIST, President and major stockholder of a successful emporium was denied a credit card.
Why the DENTAL ASSISTANT, whose work for several years was excellent, was fired after revealing her love for another woman.
Why the top winning JOCKEY, the only woman to have ridden in all three triple crown races, rode under her initials to conceal her gender.
How the first, second-career female RABBI struggled for acceptance and respect from her community and peers as a 5000 + year tradition of male only Rabbis ended.
How the two-time Emmy Award-winning WRITER for the original Saturday Night Live Show succeeded despite being told “Chicks just aren’t funny.”
Five Star Readers' Favorite
Speak Up Radio Firebird Book Award
Soaring in Silence: One Woman's TriumpH Over Fear
Concrete Wings: One Man's Fifty-Year Journey to personal freedom
soaring in silence is Also available at barnes & Noble
A recently handicapped young married woman, who by her own resourcefulness and the wonders of the Internet, overcomes her struggle against the sexual advances of a dangerous retiree with a buried criminal past.
Five Star Readers' Favorite
soaring in silence is Also available at barnes & Noble
Women, Work and Triumph is Also available at barnes & noble
soaring in silence is Also available at barnes & Noble
concrete wings is Also available at barnes & noble
Women, Work and Triumph is Also available at barnes & noble
Women, Work and Triumph is Also available at barnes & noble
Women, Work and Triumph is Also available at barnes & noble
Women, Work and Triumph is Also available at barnes & noble
Women, Work and Triumph is Also available at barnes & noble
Screenplays
Concrete Wings
Coming of Age/Family Drama: A naive teen sent out of Cuba on the eve of the Bay of Pigs Invasion to retrieve smuggled family jewels, comes of age in New York at the height of the sexual revolution and earns his political and economic freedom. By a twist of fate, he begins to lose his freedom when his oppressive parents arrive and refuse to assimilate into American society.
WINNER BEST HISTORICAL PERIOD PIECE WORLDFEST-HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022
WINNER BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 8 & HALFILM AWARDS 2021
WINNER BEST ORIGINAL STORY HOLLYWOOD ON THE TIBER FILM AWARDS 2021
WINNER BEST FEATURE SCRIPT IN LATIN/HISPANIC CATEGORY ACCOLADE GLOBAL FILM COMPETITION 2021
WINNER BEST FEATURE SCRIPT WORLD FILM CARNIVAL - SINGAPORE 2021
FINALIST BEAUFORT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022
FINALIST EDIPLAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021
SEMI-FINALIST MIAMI SCREENPLAY AWARDS 2021
HONORABLE MENTION SHOCKFEST FILM FESTIVAL 2022
QUARTER-FINALIST SCRIPTOID FEATURE CHALLENGE 2011
QUARTER-FINALIST 2ND ANNUAL STORYPROS INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY CONTEST 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY AWARDS 2021
CONCRETE WINGS a 2017 Five Star Readers' Favorite Novel has also earned 2017 Literary Classic's Seal of Approval with a recommendation for school and home libraries, 2017 New York Book Festival's Honorable Mention, 2018 Florida Book Festival's Honorable Mention and 2021 Speak Up Radio Firebird Book Award,
RENT MONEY
Comedy: While working in the Radio & TV Barter Business, a self-sufficient virgin bookkeeper, aroused by a handsome neighbor, is stymied by society's changing rules as the sexual revolution engulfs Manhattan in 1965.
WINNER GOLDEN PALM AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY AT THE BEVERLY HILLS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012
FINALIST CHARLESTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012
FINALIST EMERGING SCREENWRITERS SCREENPLAY COMPETITION 2011
SEMI-FINALIST PARIS WOMEN FESTIVAL 2023
SEMI-FINALIST SCRIPTOID FEATURE CHALLENGE 2011
QUARTER-FINALIST 5th ANNUAL STORYPROS INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY CONTEST
OFFICIAL SELECTION SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY AWARDS 2021
While I Wait
A drama inspired by a true story: As the AIDS Virus spread in the 1980s, New Yorkers were gripped with fear, anxiety and ignorance. Being an Administrative Assistant to a prominent attorney with AIDS was easy; being his friend, well, that was hard.
WINNER SILVER AWARD FEATURE SCRIPT HOLLYWOOD GOLD AWARDS 2022
FINALIST RED MOVIE AWARDS 2022
FINALIST CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL 2022
SEMI-FINALIST PARIS WOMEN FESTIVAL 2023
SEMI-FINALIST LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY AWARDS - Diversity Initiative 2022
QUARTER-FINALIST VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN FILM FESTIVAL SCREENPLAY COMPETITION 2023
WILDSOUND FESTIVAL'S TOP 100 SCREENPLAYS OF THE YEAR ON THE DRAMA FESTIVAL SITE AND ONE OF THE BEST SCRIPTS TO READ FOR 2017
SECOND ROUND TOP 25% PAGE AWARDS 2012
HONORABLE MENTION PARIS FILM AWARDS 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION QUEER GLOBAL ARTS FEST 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION NEW YORK MOVIE AWARDS 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION NEW YORK SCRIPT AWARDS 2022
Misinformed Heart
Drama: A prescription addicted environmentalist on the brink of success and marriage is wrongly accused of murder as she struggles to overcome an incestuous past.
SEMI-FINALIST PARIS WOMEN FESTIVAL 2023
SEMI-FINALIST PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS 2022
HONORABLE MENTION NEW YORK SCRIPT AWARDS 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION SHOCKFEST FILM FESTIVAL 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION Wiki Screenplay Contest 2021
Unprotected witness Co-written with Jack Knight.
Drama/Thriller: In 1994, a young wife who relocates to AZ from NY for health reasons, is subjected to relentless sexual advances by a dangerous retiree with a hidden criminal past. In a battle for survival, by her own resourcefulness and the wonders of the Internet, she derails an impending attack, positions the bully to meet his destiny and triumphs in secret.
SEMI-FINALIST 4th ANNUAL STORYPROS AWARDS
ROUND TWO TOP 25% PAGE AWARDS 2011
SOARING IN SILENCE, the novel inspired by UNPROTECTED WITNESS written by Beverly Gandara earned the 2019 Five Star Readers' Favorite..
Turnaround (co-written with john han)
A family drama inspired by a compelling true story: A financier's Asian discipline and love of music, frees his Spanish stepson from the gut-wrenching effects of ADD to become an A student and a world-class musician.
SEMI-FINALIST 4th ANNUAL STORYPROS AWARD 2011
ROUND TWO (Top 25%) PAGE AWARDS 2011