{"id":8200,"date":"2025-01-16T03:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=8200"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:40:42","slug":"books-books-and-more-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=8200","title":{"rendered":"Books, Books and More Books"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two Volumes on a Woman of Independent Means Published in 2024 and 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2024,\u00a0Flights of Fancy <\/em>launched. In 2025, I published its sequel, Gossamer Wings. <\/em>The two speak volumes about a woman of independent means.<\/p>\n

SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gossamer Wings<\/em>\u00a0takes up from\u00a0Flights of Fancy<\/em> in this Sage Anthony sequel as she frets out the Covid-19 pandemic, her fear mounting with the death toll. She hunkers down at her estate with her secretive Irish mother, Una Regan, a gossipy staff and champion beagle show dog named Banjo. He is to be the subject of kiddy books \u00a0Sage wants to pen, though she doesn\u2019t like kids and knows nothing about children\u2019s literature. This may be a mistake. In the thick of Covid-19, she hires a publishing assistant to handle book production details. Next, Sage endures the Zoom editorial-tongue lashings of a children\u2019s book specialist.<\/p>\n

The brooding Sage seems stuck in her own childhood. She yearns to know her biological father and gathers the courage (and saliva specimen) to find him via DNA. Her testy relationship with her mother boils over, and the revelation of a family secret sends Sage into a tailspin. Solitary walks and horseback rides on her estate constitute Sage\u2019s waking life. The possibility of an affair amuses.<\/p>\n

For Sage, it is time to trust no one while the estate\u2019s working stiffs \u2013\u2013 some inhabiting the world of Flights of Fancy<\/em>\u2013\u2013face their own battles:<\/p>\n

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  • Afghanistan combat veteran and kennel manager Ted Squire seems frozen in place by more than a pandemic lockdown. Sage is aloof to him, but Ted\u2019s girlfriend, dog handler Beryl Koveey, exposes what ties him to Sage, and it is not money.<\/li>\n
  • Russian army deserter Ivan Voronin runs Sage\u2019s estate until he is upstaged by a fellow Russian.<\/li>\n
  • Nicholai Dostoyevsky, a builder and former banker, knows how to read the dubious account books that Ivan keeps.<\/li>\n
  • Middle-aged farm stand owner Emma Muller ties her fortune to Ivan and lives with him in a cottages on the grounds but befriends the estate chef.<\/li>\n
  • Trevor Mandel is a buff, open-hearted Adonis. He envisions keeping Sage healthy, just as she indulges every fancy.<\/li>\n
  • Petite Croatian Petra Horvak, a Lonely Planet wanderer, lucks onto the estate with a hand from Ivan and another hand from Nicholai, although she detests Russians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Staff changes make for strange bedfellows, all waiting on life to change. Even a homeless man who wanders onto estate property will leave transformed. Driven by class biases and prejudice, as adrift in the world as refugees stumbling onto to foreign shores, they all dream of the freedom money buys. When Sage gets the all-clear to escape New York, she must choose between drowning in her family\u2019s drama or living a different life.<\/span><\/p>\n


    \n<\/span>Visit Apple Books, Kobu, Smashwords or Amazon to download my attractively priced eBooks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>

    Future Schmaltz Serial Quartet: A Sci-Fi Satire<\/h3>\"\"<\/div>
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    SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Future Schmaltz\u00a0is a sci-fi quartet, a serial tale reflecting American society’s\u00a0dark side. There is science. It is fiction;\u00a0a cautionary tale for people\u00a0who like to think\u00a0we’ll\u00a0survive catastrophe. Or, \u00a0they will.\u00a0This near-future fiction careens through decades, revealing a covert,\u00a0artificial-motherhood operation assigned to\u00a0badass college coeds. Join\u00a0their odyssey with super-breed kids\u00a0and bio-tech soldiers in\u00a0a global crisis as the luckiest\u00a0humans take cover\u00a0on Earth, in space and moon habitats and under the sea.<\/p>\n

    Book I’s\u00a0story unfolds on Earth, introducing a breeder unit known as the Swans, their dutiful Battery Boys\u00a0and the bigwigs who organized this\u00a0mother of a mission.<\/p>\n

    Book II’s action takes place on a wheeled satellite where the wealthy live a cut above, religions vie for social dominance, daily news is palatable, and the lifestyle is boogie. Remnants of hate threaten to rise up and wound the innocent and unsuspecting.<\/p>\n

    Book III delves into the lives of cranky breeder-vets and old soldiers sent to\u00a0a habitat on the moon, a missionary on a lunar mission to save them\u00a0and an old-time journalist in search of a scandal.<\/p>\n

    In Book IV, the story turns to events in American Express lodgings located underground in Virginia where key characters reunite. Clones created on the wheeled\u00a0satellite join the\u00a0super-breed teens who patrol the New York Safe Sector and set out\u00a0to clear the air. In space, a new journey awaits indomitable characters who once braved hell on Earth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>

    The Monks of Malibu: Contemporary Novel About Waylaid Buddhist Monk and His Ties to a Movie Mogul Called, “The Monk”<\/h3>\"\"<\/div>
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    SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The Monks of Malibu is the story of a young Buddhist monk, Lobsang, waylaid in Los Angeles on his journey beyond a Himalayan cave and of a movie industry gent known for his wisdom as, “The Monk.” Inextricably linked with these vastly different men are the orphaned teen of a wealthy family, Binh Cunningham. He pursues the girl of his dreams, ingenue Lacey Zamani, mocked by her teen gamer brother Zachary and deemed no prize by Lacey’s realtor mother, Donatella, and father, Davit, a cosmetic surgeon to the rich in Paris and to war-torn refugees in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

    Such lives intersect as a story of hope and despair unfolds for Binh while he delivers dinners for a Malibu restaurant and waits to turn 21 to collect his inheritance. Fast-paced and unpredictable, the scenes move from a Pacific Palisades meditation garden to a Calabasas mansion and north along the Pacific Coast Highway to the Decker Canyon estate where a composer creates movie scores and fends off a woman director and his equestrian wife rides over mountainous terrain. Forays to France complete the saga. This 381-page story started as an idea on a flight to L.A.and became a book spanning five years.<\/p>\n

    Note:<\/strong> The Buddhists monks 2026 walk for peace from Texas to Washington D.C., captured their imprint on American society and reflects the impression left by the wandering monk of Malibu.<\/p>\n

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    Two 2025 Reviews<\/h3>\"\"<\/div>

    Summer 2025 Author Interview<\/h3>
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    July 27, 2025 Instagram Post<\/p><\/div><\/div>

    New Sequel in 2025<\/h3>\"\"<\/div>

    2024 Novel<\/h3>\"\"<\/div>
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    Charms on My Keyring say it all<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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    Fiction Favorites of the Decade<\/h4>\n
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    • The Correspondent by Virginia Evans<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Table for Two<\/em> by Amor Towles<\/li>\n
    • Long Island<\/em>\u00a0 by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn<\/li>\n
    • Tom Lake<\/em> by Ann Patchett<\/li>\n
    • The Sun Sets in Singapore<\/em> by Kehinde Fadipe<\/li>\n
    • Here One Moment<\/em> by Liane Moriarty<\/li>\n
    • Resurrection Walk<\/em> by Michael Connelly<\/li>\n
    • The Rabbit Hutch<\/em> by Tess Gunty<\/li>\n
    • The Latecomer<\/em> by Jean Hanff Korelitz<\/li>\n
    • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow<\/em> by Gabrielle Zevin<\/li>\n
    • Mouth to Mouth<\/em> by Antoine Wilson<\/li>\n
    • The Great Reclamation<\/em> by Rachel Heng<\/li>\n
    • The Librarianist<\/em> by Patrick deWitt<\/li>\n
    • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo<\/em> by Taylor Jenkins Reid<\/li>\n
    • Truly Madly Guilty<\/em> by Liane Moriarty<\/li>\n
    • Hello Beautiful<\/em> by Ann Napolitano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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