Here we go, swinging into action with another old favorite about to be released on the waiting public.  A few months back I wrote a quick blog looking back at my first novella, not really long enough to be called a full book, and then not a few days after putting that out into the web I found a very nice audition to perform the audio-book waiting in my in-box.  Having at that time already started down the path to bringing my book Where I'm Bound I Can't Tell to audio life I certainly got excited.  The real problem for me was, and still is, I'm still not in that arena of authors with cash to throw around on vanity projects.  So my excitement shot up several more levels when Mister Charlie James, like Mister Witkop before him, agreed to work for pittance in exchange for a cut of any possible sales down the line.  Men like these two help make dreams come true.
I've delved into the plot before, a bunch of former friends and colleagues from professional theaters in the hotbeds like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles descend on a small community theater in Denver to attempt staging an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey with a budget of zero dollars and zero cents.  It brings out the most insane aspects of very quirky people.
Amid the characters, their foibles and strengths, and the rapid fire dialogue there are smaller side adventures nestled into the main story, many of which drawn from my own time working backstage, and to my everlasting embarrassment occasion on stage, in theaters.  The stories from that time of my life are like a gift which just keeps giving, bringing a smile to my face when I think of them, and occasionally drumming up life lessons learned the hardest way possible.  Theater gave me focus, ambition, and a dream which in many ways I still pursue to this day, all of which are why I dedicated the novella to my high school theater teacher Mr. Frank Earley, the man who helped a directionless kid with a lot of energy finally start working towards something in life instead of just drifting through. 
First and foremost Stage-Door is a comedy, and Charlie James' performance captures the high intensity, verbally dexterous, pop-culture laden, humor with panache and speed.  It makes Stage-Door fly past, but you'll be chuckling the whole way through.  I'm signing off with a customary picture-link to the novella's page on Amazon for those of you who may want to give the old-fashioned text version a try, and the link to the audio version will appear on the page as soon as it comes out.  I do hope you'll come have an adventure with me in the world of theater.