(Genre: High-concept adult crime thriller fiction)
Luke “Fuzzy” Rose, an elderly Vietnam vet, presides over his family gun business empire in rural Arkansas. He spent decades building both the business and political relationships necessary to thrust gun sales upward. Now, with his brother, sons, grandsons, and nephews, the entire family enjoys power, respect, and financial security. It has become a dynasty which Fuzzy’s brother, Searcy, is secretly determined to take over, at any cost.
When Arkansas’ constitutional carry law goes into effect in the summer of 2013, the family is ecstatic. With the help of politicians, there is nothing the family cannot do to push their pro-gun agenda forward. This includes the panic agitated by a radical, political radio host who causes a fever-pitched reaction by otherwise regular folks to become gun-obsessed fanatics. After all, they must strike against anyone who wants to take away their guns, including their semi-automatics.
Although many in the local community only care about guns for hunting and protection and don’t care for assault weapons, they worry once the government crosses the threshold of dictating who can have what, their livelihoods and culture will die as well.
Catherine, Annabelle, and Levi are members who question the family’s overarching beliefs, especially that of mixing guns and God. When they develop friendly relationships with liberals, Jim Barton and his family next door, seething underlying issues of racial prejudice, bigotry, and adultery bubble to the surface and raise tensions. However, this doesn’t stop the younger adults from bonding and sharing ideas, even religious ones. Meanwhile, Searcy stalks, watches, and schemes.
The Rose’s battle with the Bartons complicates their preparations for business expansion and an anticipated civil war. While the women know more about the inner-workings of the family business than they admit, they also understand how to work the patriarchal system they live in.
The seasoned male members of the Rose family fear they are losing grip on their future because, as the younger generation of the Barton and Rose families develop relationships, the values and ideas of each rub off on the other. The struggle is no longer just to advance pro-gun legislation but also to preserve the family’s generations-old Southern heritage, morals, and value system.
When Fuzzy’s grandson, Levi, is brutally murdered, the entire community is slammed with the anxiety of the dissolution of its quiet neighborhoods, serene Christian values, and ability to hang on to its guns. All the while, the politicians in Little Rock… they know.
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(Genre: High-concept adult crime thriller fiction)
Vietnam vet Luke “Fuzzy” Rose presides comfortably over his family empire built on gun shows and gun sales. When Arkansas’ constitutional carry law goes into effect in the summer of 2013, the family is ecstatic.
With the help of politicians, there is nothing the family will not do to push their pro-gun agenda forward. This includes promoting the fear agitated by a radical political radio host that causes a fever-pitched reaction by otherwise regular folks to turn into gun-obsessed fanatics. After all, they must prepare for the perceived upcoming civil war. The battle with Fuzzy’s liberal neighbors, Jim Barton and his family, complicates preparations.
As the younger generation of the Barton and Rose families develop relationships, the values and ideals of each rub off on one another. The elders’ struggle is no longer just to advance pro-gun legislation but also to preserve the family’s cultural heritage and value system.
Politicians connected with the Rose family revel in their accomplishments and plans to eliminate all gun control laws in the State. All the while, interrogations regarding the dead body of Searcy’s son-in-law reveal secrets and flaws that could bring both families to their demise. Then, Fuzzy’s biggest fear is realized when Searcy forces him into a nursing home.
Rejection and alcohol make for bad bedfellows when it comes to keeping secrets. It almost causes a murderer to be revealed. As the Rose family takes measures to protect itself, toxicology results reveal that Fuzzy was being poisoned in a coup to overtake the organization. Collapse of the Rose family and its empire seems inevitable.
In the end, all paths lead to a secret, underground, limestone cave where the Rose family stockpiled massive amounts of guns and ammo. As Searcy joins his business associates and partners in the cave, the rest of the family, local authorities, FBI, and ATF descend upon them above ground.
Realizing the retribution is coming fast and furious, Searcy must find a quick escape. In the process, will another assassin get away?
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(Genre: Middle-grade children's animated fiction)
Willow, a tenacious young cottontail rabbit, finds companionship with a stubborn box turtle named Oliver after he saves her from leaping off a 200-foot cliff. She’s an Aries. He’s a Scorpio. She takes everything way too fast. He moves at a consistent and measured slow pace. Their friendship, though odd and diametrical, quickly sets a solid foundation for a kindred lifetime association.
Willow is on a quest to retrieve her magic cape from the farmer’s shed. She believes it gives her superhero abilities. Oliver’s main mission is to recover the last existing photo of his family that the wind carried off across the canyon.
When the handicapped farmer’s leaking crop runoff threatens all of Varner Woods and Juju Canyon, Willow and Oliver forge an army of animals to track down the source and save their woodlands. First, they must fend off a devious red-headed woodpecker, make a treacherous trek down a mountain, survive a swim in a toxic river, and overcome their ideological differences.
During this epic animated journey, Willow and Oliver not only learn more about themselves and their inner strength but also the vigor of their friendships with all of the animals who live in Varner Woods and Juju Canyon. They find that the power does not rest in either Willow’s magic cape or Oliver’s Polaroid camera, but instead, it is inside each of them. Soon, Willow and Oliver’s trust blossoms into romantic love.
As each animal of Varner Woods and Juju Canyon plays their role in the environmental cleanup, they make the needed runoff repairs and save their beloved ecosystems. However, in the end, the over-arching question is whether or not Willow and Oliver’s contrasting personalities will render them forever-friends or something more.
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(Genre: Middle-grade children's live-action fiction)
Since the untimely death of her mother in childbirth, Desiree, a tenacious young tomboy in Monticello, Missouri (1864), thrives on the love and security of her father, Robert, and uncle, Marshall Greenberry. She has no idea of her strength and stamina until a terrible fight with Sadie, her aunt, sets her off on a wilderness journey to track down her father who is on a business trip to St. Louis with Greenberry.
Alone, but seemingly unafraid, Desiree forges onward with her horse, Blossom. Along the way, she runs across three young boys, Tom, Huck, and Joe, who are on a pirate adventure on a wooden river raft. After she teaches the boys a few clever backwoods techniques gleaned from Greenberry, they soon welcome her into their gang.
When Desiree becomes separated from her new friends, she meets Noah, an escaped freed slave who is hiding from illegal slave runners attempting to recapture him. Noah’s mission is to travel north, be reunited with his wife and baby girl, and not be returned to his former slave master in Mississippi.
The slave runners pursue Noah relentlessly. When they do finally catch Noah and steal Blossom, Desiree’s deep-burning strength blazes forth. She vows to set him free and get her horse back. The boys join in, and the adventure turns into a heroic storm of events.
Quietly, Desiree and Huck fall in puppy love. The other boys notice and poke fun at them, but the moment is dampened by the raft’s nighttime collision with a riverboat. Luckily, the raft isn’t badly damaged, so the hunt continues.
They track the runners to the St. Louis fairgrounds where a farm equipment sale is about to take place. The rescue erupts with wild antics, bobby-traps, and a loose circus monkey. When Greenberry, Robert, and his girlfriend, Missouri, show up at the fairgrounds to purchase farm equipment, they join in the fight to liberate Noah. Tom, Huck, and Joe agree that they can never let it be known that they were ‘running with a girl.’
Desiree bonds with Missouri and goes shopping with her. The young girl is adorned with frilly dresses, hair bows, and brand new girls’ shoes. When she sees her reflection in a store window, she smiles, stunned.
Later, Robert and Missouri marry in a Monticello church that sits near the Mississippi River. Among the guests are Noah, his wife, and their baby girl. Everyone tries to congratulate Desiree on a new mom, but before they can do so, she flies out the door and into the meadow where she meets Huck. They race toward the river where Tom and Joe shout to them from the raft. Will Desiree’s coming of age change her mind, or will she jump on the ship and join her fellow pirates?
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(Genre: Middle-grade children's animated fiction)
El Capitán, a super-smooth Chihuahua, is surrendered to an animal shelter in Detroit after his beloved human family loses their home and is forced to move away without him. Other dogs in the building, Longitude and Cujo, try to make him feel welcome and cheer him up.
The Garcia family enters the shelter with Toby, their clumsy Cocker Spaniel. They want to adopt another dog. Destiny is in the cards as Toby slams into El Capitán’s kennel as he tries to impress a female poodle. Young Annie Garcia takes it as a sign that she has found her dog. They adopt him and take him home.
At the house, Toby, stumbling over sprinklers and falling into hedges, guides El Capitán through a tour of the home. In the backyard, a family of squirrels comes out to inspect the newcomer. Toby warns El Capitán about those crazy Nutters.
El Capitán weirdly begins to feel at ease, but his appetite is still lacking. The human family notices and tries to get him to eat. Toby also tries to comfort him, but El Capitán explains that he doesn’t even know what is wrong. The next morning, the two dogs awaken cuddled together.
Alfred Garcia, the father, notifies his wife, Nancy, that he thinks El Capitán is not happy and needs to be returned to the shelter. Nancy disagrees. Annie disagrees. Her brother, John, wants a big dog instead. Toby is upset. El Capitán is stunned and feels lost. The squirrels are mad. They make a plan with all the other neighborhood animals to save their new friend.
As the family piles into the car with Toby and El Capitán to make the return, Annie begs her father to give the Chihuahua more time. Then, Toby along with the squirrels and other neighborhood animals race to a slapstick rescue. They pummel the car with acorns, flail themselves across the windshield, and shoot it with the water hose.
Annie stresses to her father that the animals also want him to give El Capitán a chance. Alfred agrees. The neighborhood animals party all night in celebration.
The next morning, Toby and El Capitán feel good, like brothers. Bella Nutter, donning dark sunglasses, gives El Capitán a gift she made from acorns. Accidentally, Toby destroys the gift, sending acorns high into the air. Bella chases after him. El Capitán sighs. Maybe he is finally home.
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(Genre: High-concept adult comedy fiction)
At the rideshare parking lot at XNA in Bentonville, Arkansas, Olivia “Olli” Danoff, a lesbian boxer, develops a familial relationship with the other drivers, including the most obnoxious of the bunch: Danny Studebaker.
Danny is a short, rough-and-tumble character who struggles to maintain power over all the other drivers. Olli tries to stand between him and the others when he throws a fit. Yet, when he goes off on Reverend Will Scott, she snaps and starts toward him until Doobie Foster stops her. She returns to her car and begins to dial up her partner, Sophia, when Lisa Cooly pops in the passenger door. Lisa urges Olli to slug Danny right in the kisser, but Olli calms her down.
About this time, Doobie taps on Olli’s window and notifies her that elderly Theo Moore is in trouble. He texted Doobie: “Follow my ride.” Now, Doobie is frantic. Together, they follow Theo’s ride to an old abandoned house where they find their friend fallen through the floorboards and a man in black threatening them with a gun. After being chased off, they rush to gather a posse to come back and save Theo.
Later, Olli and Doobie return to the old house with Danny, Lisa, and Reverend Will in Danny’s big double-cab truck. As they sneak through the house looking for Theo, Danny spots him through a window, relaxing in a rocking chair on the back porch and having a cordial conversation with someone unseen.
They carefully file out onto the porch, eyeing Theo with curiosity. Theo has a Band-Aid on his head as he chats with the now non-threatening man in black. Olli questions what the hell is going on.
Theo appears ashamed and apologizes. His wife, Billie Jean, digs cosplay and loves the Matrix. She forced Theo to set the whole thing up in exchange for sex, provided he had it all videotaped.
Theo’s friends admonish him, but he reminds them that he has to live with his wife. He had no choice. Danny makes cracks at him until Ollie gets up in his face. Danny runs away.
The next day, at the rideshare lot, Theo brings gifts as peace offerings to his friends. Meanwhile, Reverend Will and Danny try to trick each other to eat and drink each other’s laced food and drinks. Danny laughs heartily as he watches Reverend Will race into the port-a-potty.
Then he mistakenly takes a swig of the drink Reverend Will left in his truck. Within minutes, he wobbles from his truck like he’s drunk and slurs his words.
PING! Danny’s phone goes off, but he can’t find the “accept” button.
PING! The rider goes to Reverend Will who is still on the potty.
PING! The ride goes to Theo who accepts the ride and drives off into the sunset.
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(Genre: High-concept family comedy fiction)
As a result of an economic crash, Alan Bennington loses his job as a college English professor in Santa Monica, California. His wife, Joanne, loses her job as a college theatre professor and picks up a part-time job at a local grocery store. Then, they lose their house. Together with their children, Eric and Jessica, they find refuge in an old RV that becomes their new safe-haven.
After the kids go off to school, Joanne confesses her fears to her husband. Frustrated, she asks what the plan is; what are they going to do? Alan calms her, reminding her they are lucky to have a little money in savings. Others didn’t. His advice is to laugh at it because it will change just as it always does. He thinks he can land work as a screenwriter. His friend connected him to an agent. Joanne scoffs. He begs for her to give him a chance. She reluctantly agrees.
Eric is invited by his friends to a party. They want to pick him up at his home. He declines because he is embarrassed about his family’s situation. He doesn’t want his friends to know they’re living in an old RV.
At the middle school, Jessica sits alone, waiting for Eric. When her teacher joins her, Jessica scams and sells her a pretty-wrapped bundle of stale cookies to make money. After Eric arrives, they take off together toward the grocery store where Joanne works.
Alan meets his family at the store, so they can go for tacos and walk home together. The kids bicker and prod each other until Joanne begs them to stop. When they come across a homeless couple cuddling in a cardboard box, they quietly stare, then move on.
They give a homeless man some pocket change and Jessica’s stale cookies. At the taco stand, Alan orders extra food and allows the kids to give it to the hungry homeless. Then, they eat their tacos and walk home.
Once they arrive at the RV, they sit outside at the picnic table, looking at the stars. Jessica is excited that she helped a few hungry people. Eric is more cautious about giving things away. Alan reminds them they are blessed, and even more so because he got a phone call. He accepted a job to go on the road and write a story. Of course, he has to assure the family that they will return to California one day.
With all the stress, the family is glad to take a road trip. After his family enters the RV, Alan dusts off a wooden plaque that says “Bennington Place” and hangs it on the RV. Will he be able to keep his promise?
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(Genre: Adult dark-comedy/tragicomedy fiction)
Margaret, the sinister wife of Richard, an elderly congressman, coaxes him to fly back to D.C. early so she may pursue her sexual fantasies of bedding down with her sexy upstairs neighbor, Henry.
Problems arise when Henry rejects Margaret’s advances and refuses to repair her broken door. He admits that he hears her having sex with her other door guy when Richard is out of town and vows that he will not be ‘that guy.’ When Henry’s girlfriend, Ellie, comes to the scene, Margaret’s jealousy detonates and shatters the harmony of the whole apartment building. She warns that Henry did not notify the new landlord Ellie moved in and vows to make him pay dearly.
Later, as Margaret and Richard are about to leave for the airport, a pickup truck barrels into the driveway and almost runs over Richard. A man named Bolingbroke gets out, stating he is there to repair the door. Margaret demands that he return later, but the handyman is adamant about staying and working on the door until she returns, alone. He didn’t receive a phone call but asserts he’s psychic and knew the door needed “fixing.”
Suddenly, another handyman named Juan shows up with tools in his hands. He insists that Margaret called him, but she denies it. Nevertheless, she puts him right to work cutting down the Bougainvillea from around Henry’s upper window. When Margaret and Richard finally leave for the airport, Henry rushes out to stop Juan from cutting down his beautiful plants. Bolingbroke comments that Margaret has the authority because Richard recently purchased the building. He also slips that he plans to take it all when Richard dies.
Henry admonishes Bolingbroke and defends Richard as the crusty conspirator brags about his method, servicing lonely women, making a ton of cash, and that Margaret put the door guy in her will. Juan tries to interrupt, but the men pay him no mind. When Margaret returns, she is gleeful. She tells them Richard died at the airport of a heart attack. Pleased with herself, she dances, steps on a long-handled cutter which flies up and hits her in the head. She falls dead. Bolingbroke gloats about his good luck right before his truck runs over him. He falls dead.
Weeks later, a new owner sits outside the apartment building, sipping a margarita. Beautiful landscaping surrounds him. Henry steps outside and expresses his content that the new owner bought the building. The man corrects him. He didn’t buy it. He is the door guy.
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