Abby Fouchet has always dreamed of performing on Broadway. She never imagined this desire would land her in the center of a different kind of dramatic production featuring murder and corruption. Johnny Gerard has been performing for years on Broadway and television. But shortly after meeting Abby, he finds himself plunged into a real-life script more dangerous than anything he's encountered as "Gregory Noble- Supercop" on his award-winning soap opera, Endless Time. First someone runs down Johnny's roommate in a bizarre hit-and-run accident. Then shots are fired at Johnny and Abby in Central Park. They agree it's hard to start a lasting romance or make any grand career moves with this kind of activity in the background. Fight - or Flight? The couple decides to get to the bottom of what seems to be the classic Manhattan mixture of Mob and Murder on Broadway.
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Flo Fitzpatrick holds degrees in Dance and Theatre Arts, and has worked as a choreographer, performer, teacher and voice-over artist. A major foot injury kept her housebound behind a computer , so she combined her love of crazy characters in theatre with her love of writing and created Ghost of a Chance (August 2004). Her next novel, Hot Stuff (April 2005) featured Bollywood movies, Irish charmers and one beautiful linguist involved in a plot to secure a mysterious statue. Sweet Dreams is Ms. Fitzpatrick's third novel to date.
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Flo Fitzpatrick was born in Washington D.C., then became a world traveler while still in diapers. An Army brat, Flo lived in Virginia, Georgia and a castle in France, all before she hit five.
Her first authored work (age four) was science-fiction piece, "The Bug on the Wall." It consisted of two sentences. "There was a bug. It was on the wall."
When she was eight, she went full-tilt boogie and wrote three chapters for what was intended to be a complete novel entitled, "The Skinner Family Goes to Ireland." The plot consisted of the Skinner family heading to Ireland to visit their Aunt Donna who lived on a potato farm and owned a swimming pool. Flo's older brothers, twins, were somewhat skeptical that the Skinners would make it to Ireland via train from New York City across the Atlantic. Her next book (age nine) was more realistic. "The Mystery of the Greenhouse" was written while she was living in El Paso, so the greenhouse setting might have been a buffer against all the tumbleweeds. Sadly, this masterpiece was lost somewhere in transition and travel over the years.
Flo earned a B.F. A. in Dance and an M.A. in Theatre, then spent her years after college shuttling back and forth from Texas to New York performing, teaching and choreographing. During her career in theatre, Flo has played nice ladies (Nellie-South Pacific), not-so-nice ladies (Lily St. Regis-Annie) and dead ladies who weren't very ladylike (three murdered hookers in melodrama Jack the Ripper) The last, she claims, was tough. She spent the first ten minutes of the show "dead", lying on the floor trying not to breathe - or wince from paper wads thrown by enthusiastic audiences. One of her favorite theatrical experiences was playing a variety of characters (bag ladies and Cyndi Lauper-styled tourists) for the Japanese language show NY-Go! which aired on Manhattan cable stations.
Flo returned to writing when a major foot injury kept her home and hobbling. Her second novel with Kensington, Hot Stuff, was the recipient of the Four and Half Star Gold review from RT Reviews and nominated for Best Romantic Suspense of 2005. It's currently under option for film.
She also teaches Dance and Theatre at a parochial school, does a little 'singin' and actin' when possible, and is a Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant.
Her latest home project is teaching manners to two-year old, fifty-pound rescue-mutt "Princess Amneris" (Amy) who thinks jumping on stomach (Flo's) and nose-licking (Flo's) at five a.m. is regal behavior. Flo sighs, "It's a process."
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Delightful!,
By Kristina Cook (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sweet Dreams (Paperback)
Flo Fitzpatrick's previous two releases, Ghost of a Chance and Hot Stuff, were absolutely delightful reads, and Sweet Dreams is no exception! Wonderfully written, charming, and a little zany--I highly recommend it!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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If you love visiting backstage with someone who has really been there--read Flo Fitzpatrick! With her light and vivid style she makes you feel that you're a member of the cast. If you enjoyed Ghost of a Chance and Hot Stuff--you're sure to love Sweet Dreams.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Fitzpatrick is a zany delight,
This review is from: Sweet Dreams (Hardcover)
This is my third Flo Fitzpatrick novel in the last year, and I must say this writer continues to delight me. I utterly adored Ghost of a Chance, Kensington Zebra Debut Romance, August 2004. This was followed but the wacky delight, Hot Stuff, Kensington, April 2005. Both were great "fun" reads for me and firmly fixed this author as a talent on the rise. Now with Sweet Dreams, her first hardback release from Hilliard & Harris Publishers, December 2005, she keeps making me smile. Fitzpatrick's bio makes it clear she is taking a lemon and making lemonade and I for one hopes she continues to do so. A foot injury sidelined her dancing career, so she took that love of the arts and poured it into her books. As a former ballerina, I appreciate Fitzpatrick's ability to carry to reader to the backstage preparations, the frantic madness, the egos...the smell of grease paint!
In Sweet Dreams, Abby Foutchet is a dreamer. Her one dream is to perform on Broadway. Only in following her heart's desire, she failed to foresee dreams often could turn out to be nightmares. She gets that break on the Great White Way, but in a real life drama of murder, mayhem and corruption. But little stuff like that would never keep a good lass down and certainly not our Abby. Johnny Gerard is a long-time performer on Broadway and television, a heartthrob to the masses. Only our lad isn't prepared for Abby's "road production" of Murder by Decree! hehehe. He slowly comes to see both he and Abby was up to their necks in Who Dun Its? His roommate was run down in a hit-and-run accident. The reader immediately ponders if the real target was Johnny. In short time, that question is answered, as someone starts shooting at Johnny and Abby. To save their careers they have to play Nick and Nora and find out just what is at the bottom of the real-life script of Murder She Wrote. Once again, Fitzpatrick, delivers on all levels and leaves this reader eager for more of her charming stories.
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