Other Books by Cliff Keller

My new novel, Sunny Side Up! has been available at Amazon.com in paperback and ePub since March 19th. Sales and the critical response have been gratifying—many sincere thanks to those of you who have purchased, read and let me know that they enjoyed the book—but, so far, readers have left only two reviews at the Amazon website. Since my greatest fear each time I do this is that someone very articulate will buy the book, read it, hate it, then post a well-written scathing review, I am always comforted after several positive reviews appear.

The average review-rating for my Three Prophets Series and Sunny Side Up! is 4.9 stars—thanks again. (Link to my author page at Amazon.)

Fortunately, Sunny Side Up’s two lonely reviews are both 5-stars. “You get a great story, laugh out loud lines from characters you may, like me, recognize, and unusual but real family dynamics,” says one.

“Many observations were laugh-out-loud funny and I really felt like I was transported back to the 50’s. Sunny Side Up! is light reading with full-bodied content!” says the other.

Additional reviews (especially if you enjoyed reading it) would be both helpful and appreciated.

Shortly after World War II, a 130-person production crew from Warner Brothers Pictures arrived in Naples, Florida, having arrived to shoot Everglades action scenes for their feature-length thriller, Distant Drums, and, in so doing, increased the sleepy fishing village’s population by nearly ten per cent. I arrived in Naples as a Yankee child two years later. Though the Warner stars and film crew unit had vanished, the place was still abuzz.

You see, Gary Cooper, the “world’s most handsome man,” had walked among the natives and, they were certain, things would never be the same.

Twenty-five years afterward, I returned to nearby Fort Myers, Florida after living and working in Texas. Having never quite forgotten the fuss that the Naples citizenry (read, women) had made in Naples decades earlier, I drove to Naples and began to research Hollywood’s momentous visitation. After discovering in microfiche archives an odd but intriguing coincidence concerning two female Warner extras—they were, apparently, sisters—I was inspired to write a novel about two fictional sisters I very well may have known.

Sunny Side Up! to be released in March of this year, is the resulting lighthearted, retro-romance based on those fleeting days in Naples during which Hollywood actors, administrators and technicians haunted its restaurants, bars and environs, set in the imaginary town of Vireo, Florida.

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