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The Writers Afterlife is the story of Tom Chillo, a 44-year-old writer on the verge of fame, who suddenly dies of a stroke and finds himself transported to a place where all writers are sent after they die. After mingling with "The Eternals" - including Shakespeare, Wilde, Keats, and Tolstoy - he discovers that his true peers in this new world are all haunted by the same regret: they never achieved the fame they felt they deserved during their lifetime. There's still a chance, though. Every writer has the opportunity to return to earth for exactly one week and convince someone to set the wheels in motion to give their life's work widespread notoriety. The trick is to come up with the perfect plan the first time. Failure is not an option.
About the Author
Born and raised in New York City I have been writing poetry, plays, novels, movie and TV for all of my life. I got my master's degree in Comparative English Literature from Columbia University then went on to write plays in NYC's Off-Off-Broadway world. The first feature film I was hired to write, Vigilante, was named one of the best Indie movies of the 1980's by BAM just last year. My novels include The Third Miracle (Simon & Schuster) and I co-wrote the screenplay adaptation starring Ed Harris, directed by Agnieszka Holland and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. My other movies include The Marriage Fool for CBS TV Movies starring Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett and John Stamos. I have over twenty published plays produced around the world including Caravaggio; Machiavelli; One Shot, One Kill; Bird Brain; Gangster Apparel and The Vows of Penelope Corelli. My other novels include The Writers Afterlife, Baroque and Champagne and Cocaine coming out this May. I am always looking to communicate with readers and fellow writers.
