Charmaine Gordon


Biography

Years of experience as an actor on daytime drama. Stage, spokesperson and commercials plus writing sketches for Air Force shows helped prepare me for the wonders of a writing career. Of course, I didn’t realize it at the time when immersed in the written words of others, that I was like a sponge, soaking up how to construct a scene, write dialogue, and paint the setting.

My writing effort came later when I wrote a two page story, sent it to son, Paul who commented, “Cool. Can you write ten pages?” Seemed impossible but the story poured from my fingers and seventy thousand words later, I typed The End.


I kissed my acting career goodbye, leaving on a high note with the lead in an Off Broadway play, “The Fourth Commandment” author Rich Knipe. It was great fun and time to move on. Movies like “Working Girl”, “Road to Wellsville” and having the pleasure of Anthony Hopkins company at lunch, working with Mike Nichols in “Regarding Henry” and singing outside with Harrison Ford, crying with Gene Wilder over loss on another set, When “Harry Met Sally” with the whole gang singing It Had to Be You. Lots of fond memories. My first job as stand-in leg model for Geraldine Ferraro in a Diet Pepsi commercial with Secret Service men guarding her and her daughters. A sweet time.

Books

Haven    by Charmaine Gordon
Price: $3.99 USD. 20750 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on August 10, 2011. Fiction.

Jimmy Costigan gets more than he expected when his sister Charlie asks him to make a delivery to Haven, where her best friend Shelley Jackson, a psychiatric social worker has their first case-a mother and three children held hostage. They escaped, but they learn the assailant is on the loose. Jimmy stays to help out. Just for a night. The family is in danger. And, Jimmy has his own secret...
Reconstructing Charlie    by Charmaine Gordon
Price: $4.99 USD. 55050 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on January 23, 2011. Fiction.

Charlie Costigan has a secret. Home life gone from bad to the worst when she protects her mother from another vicious attack by her drunken father. Midnight. Clothes thrown into an old suitcase, she races for the bus with a letter to an unknown aunt and uncle. "This is my daughter. Embrace her as if she were your own." Determined, Charlie begins again. Alone with her secret.
Now What?    by Charmaine Gordon
Price: $4.99 USD. 75740 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on July 16, 2010. Fiction.

I held his cooling hand and asked the two words spoken many times during our years together. “Now what?” This time there was no response. I was on my own for the first time. When my fingers touched his wedding ring, I slipped it off and held it in my fist. The gold band was warm. I clung to him. “Come back to me, dearest.” Sometimes what you wish for is more than you can live with.
Starting Over    by Charmaine Gordon
Price: $4.99 USD. 60300 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on March 6, 2010. Fiction.

Each morning, Emily Kendrick runs on the hard-packed sand of St. Augustine Beach to clear her mind and heal her heart. From the widow’s walk of the house perched high on the dunes, a man trains his binoculars on Emily…
To Be Continued    by Charmaine Gordon
Price: $4.99 USD. 74180 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on December 14, 2009. Fiction.

Elizabeth Malone wakes up the morning after an amazing night of passion with her husband of forty years to find a note: Dear Lizzie, it's not you, it's me. Abandoned by her husband, disappointed in daughter Susie's casual attitude Dad's having a mid-life crisis, Beth decides to re-establish herself as the winner she once was. When Frank Malone returns, he's in for a big surprise!

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