Author Description

<b>The author's screenplay adaptation of Christmas Karma won the 2016 Writers Guild of America West Diversity Award. Included in the <i>Prize-Winning Literary Fiction Series</i> from LaPuerta Books and Media</b> <p><i><b>Christmas Karma</b></i> is a touching and witty tale about the travails of a dysfunctional family around the holidays, narrated by an angel who has a wicked sense of humor. <p>Main character Willa Nawicki is bewildered by a series of curious karmic events that literally ring her doorbell during the frantic season, awakening years-old resentments and stimulating ever-more-intense personal confrontations. These bizarre visitations include a grizzled old man claiming to be her father, who has been missing for some thirty years but now says the title to the family home is in his name - <i>and now he wants the place back.</i> <p>As the angel observes, "The surest way to invoke the laughter of the universe is to make plans, particularly devious ones."