Maggie's Farm is the tale of a woman, the exercise of power and a case of mistaken identity that ends with the death of a young gay man.

I've written the first chapter.  Click here to read it. 

I like this story.  For starters, the protagonist, Maggie of the title, drives a hopped up Datsun 240Z.  And races it on weekends.  And wins more often than she loses.  Maggie loves to compete and hates to lose.  No wonder I like her so much.

Another thing...there is plenty of sex in this story, too.  You can read the first page of the first chapter for some middle-aged auto-eroticism.  I like the idea that a woman supposedly past her prime is prepared to take matters into her own hands if necessary.  Bad pun intended.

But that's hardly the end of the sexy stuff.  With a gay man in the cast of characters it's a pretty safe bet there will be some homosexual nooky.  I've never written about gay sex before.  Field research is out of the question.  Interesting challenge...

And you'll have fun guessing which characters are up to the same-sex hijinks.

As usual, women and their relationship to power - political, sexual, social and romantic - will be a prominent theme.  There is a contradiction central to any discussion of women and power in modern society. 

Women, particularly feminists, say they have none - or at least, far less than men.  Women are the victims of patriarchy.  Men oppress women at all levels of society and particularly within marital relationships.  That men have more power is a given in popular culture. Unquestioned, undisputed and absolutely untrue.

Men, on the other hand, know just how powerful women really are. 

That contradiction - women are powerless vs. women are all powerful - is central to Maggie's Farm.  It showed up in Rensby, too.  And probably will in most of my writing.  Keep an eye out for it in this novel.