TITLE: A Scandal in Venice
RELEASE DATE: June 20, 2017
AUTHOR: Julian Padowicz
CATEGORIES: Humor/Romance/Adventure
PAGE COUNT: 258
ISBN: 978-1544887159
IMPRINT: Black Hawk
KEYWORDS: Humor, Sailing, Seniors, Romance, Dysfunction, Adventure, Suspense
ONE LINER:
There they go
again, insecure Kip and ditzy, creative, accident-prone Amanda putting their
dysfunctional marriage on the line in another romp.
SYNOPSIS:
Kip and Amanda,
sixty-ish protagonists from previous adventures, continue their humorously
dysfunctional relationship as Kip is asked to be a father figure to a troubled
fourteen-year-old and plans to spend a summer of male bonding under sail, while
Amanda decides to reconcile her husband with his memory of his overbearing,
non-nurturing, departed mother. Of course, neither plan works out as expected,
but their failures will put their marriage on the line.
AUTHOR BIO:
Julian Padowicz was seven years old, Jewish, and living in Warsaw,
Poland, when WWII began. After 6 months under Soviet occupation in southern
Poland, he and his mother made a daring trek over the Carpathian Mountains into
neutral Hungary. Arriving in America at the age of 9, Julian spent the next 13
years in boarding school and college, where his undiagnosed ADD and Dyslexia
caused him considerable grief.
Graduating from Colgate University in 1954 with a BA in English, he was
hired by Twentieth-Century Fox studios as editor of their company magazine,
“Action.”
From 1955 to 1959 he served in the Air Force as a navigator and intercept
instructor.
Following military service, he entered the documentary film profession,
first as a writer and eventually as director, cameraman, editor, and producer,
garnering numerous awards.
Upon retirement in 2000, Padowicz began writing a 4-part memoir of his
WWII experiences. The first book, Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939 was
published in 2006 by Academy Chicago and named “Book of the Year” by ForeWord
Magazine. It was followed by A Ship in the Harbor, Loves of Yulian, and
When the Diamonds Were Gone. A “young readers’” version of Mother and
Me, published by Scholastic Inc. was a best seller in the school field.
Feeling that much of what was interesting in his life was not publishable
as memoir, for fear of hurting people still living, Padowicz created the
fictional village of Venice on the Massachusetts coast and peopled it with
characters based on people he had known, including himself. Applying humor,
which he calls his “weapon of choice,” Padowicz has written several novels in
which these fictional characters go through many of the experiences he,
himself, has gone through. His hero, Kip, is a retired college professor,
married to his creative, but accident prone wife, the lovely Amanda, and trying
to lead a “normal” life, in a new community, among whacky neighbors and
whackier friends from his past.
Padowicz lives in a 100 plus-year-old house in Stamford, Connecticut with
his wife, Donna Carter. Their blended family includes 5 children, 9
grandchildren, and 2 great-grands.
AUTHOR LINKS: http://www.Julianpadowicz.com
BUY LINKS:
AMAZON US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y429YXV AMAZON UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06Y429YXV
AMAZON CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B06Y429YXV
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