Brilliant Ladies of the West Kill Book Club

It is with great humility that I thank the West Kill Book Club for its gracious hospitality and positive reception for my book, Inconceivable!  Imagine me with an all-female audience discussing pregnancy and self-esteem, ambivalence to breast-feeding and infanticide.  Thanks to everyone for their honest feedback and delicious cooking.

As a friendly reminder, you all promised to use the principle of 6-degrees-of-separation to move the book toward Barbra Streisand, who will play Althea, Tom Hanks, who will play Plexi, Steven Speilberg or anyone else involved in the movie business who wants to see the screenplay.

Inconceivable! In today's news...what some new mothers do...

DALLAS (Reuters) - A murder charge has been dropped against a Dallas-area hotel worker accused of killing a baby she gave birth to in an employee locker-room toilet by allowing it to drown, police said on Wednesday.

The charge was withdrawn against Luz Aurora Granados-Reyes, 25, after the Collin County Medical Examiner said he could not prove the baby girl, believed to be 30 to 32 weeks in gestation, was alive when she was delivered in the toilet.

The medical examiner ruled there was insufficient evidence to prove the baby was born alive. A specialist will conduct further tests but it is unlikely the medical examiner’s ruling will change, officials said.

Paramedics found Granados-Reyes sitting on a toilet with the umbilical cord still attached to her and the female infant submerged in water beneath her, the warrant said.

The woman "made no attempt to remove the infant, provide aid or call 911 for assistance," the warrant said.

Ah, this already happened on p. 112 of Inconceivable!

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Police are crediting a Pittsburgh TV news crew with saving the life of an overdose victim by calling 911 and performing CPR on him before emergency responders could arrive.

WPXI-TV (http://bit.ly/1QRyJwK ) says photographer Dave Clark was getting ready for a news segment with reporter Cara Sapida (sah-PY'-dah) on Wednesday in Washington, Pennsylvania, when Clark saw the man slumped over in a vehicle, not breathing.

Clark performed CPR while Sapida called 911.

Clark says he was thinking, "OK, if we can just keep a pulse going till the paramedics get here, we'll be cool."

Police Chief Chris Lupino says officers took over CPR when they arrived, and paramedics revived the man with the overdose antidote Narcan.

In the news today. But already on p. 124 of Inconceivable!

Boston headline

On June 25, a dog walker found the girl's body on the western shore of Deer Island in Winthrop, a peninsula in Boston Harbor opposite Logan Airport, the Massachusetts state police said. The girl was found with a fleece blanket and wrapped in a trash bag.

There were no signs of trauma, said Dave Procopio, director of media relations for the state police.

Stranded Woman Starts Forest Fire In Desperate Attempt To Get Help After Giving Birth In Woods « CBS San Francisco

Stranded Woman Starts Forest Fire In Desperate Attempt To Get Help After Giving Birth In Woods « CBS San Francisco

Convicted today. But already in "A Bumpy Ride", page 291. Its Inconceivable!

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit woman pleaded guilty Monday to killing two of her children and storing their bodies in a home freezer, telling a judge that she had no remorse for beating and suffocating them.

Mitchelle Blair, 36, has never challenged allegations that she killed her 13-year-old daughter and 9 year-old son. She pleaded guilty to first-degree murder without any deal with prosecutors — an extraordinary move — and said she would have accepted the death penalty if Michigan had it.

She was arrested in March, after deputies carrying out an eviction at her Detroit apartment found the bodies of her children in a deep freezer. She said she attacked the children months apart in 2012 and 2013.

Readers having fun!

In the past two days, two readers of Inconceivable! have stopped me on the street to tell me how much they enjoyed it.   One said, "I've never read a book like this - it is wonderful, happy and sad and complex and simple all at the same time."  The other asked where the non-fiction ends and the fiction begins.  Writing is 1/3 pleasure 1/3 pain and 1/3 perseverance - the compliments encourage me to persevere.

For the rest of you, download from Amazon, BN or ITunes, or order soft-cover print from me here. The book cover is a link to your preferred vendor and here is the site:

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