Works in Progress
Works in Progress
Laughter In the Kitchen: Sweet Recipes & Stories by Cynthia Neale & Artist, Maggie Martin.
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Laughter in the kitchen is what we’re all waiting for! Honestly, at this time in our world, I think we’ll take laughter anywhere…And in the kitchen, where food can burn, explode, stick, boil over, drop, stink, spill, and not taste good, there is always hope for culinary magic and laughter. The kitchen is a place of experimentation, transformation, and a place of nurture. It’s the heart of the home and is an apt metaphor for life. Our lives get stirred, heated, and baked! We come out loving and laughing, or not. Laughter in the Kitchen will be full of my delicious dessert recipes derived from baking from scratch. It will also contain funny stories about mishaps in the kitchen that will tickle your funny bone and maybe make you laugh out loud. The illustrations are whimsically created by my friend, Maggie M. Martin, artist extraordinaire, who has laughed with me until we had to run to the bathroom. Get ready for this extraordinary cookbook soon to be published by Bedazzled Ink Publishing!
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The Irish Dresser Series, Screenplay
Logline: In turbulent, racist, and gang-mired 19th-Century New York, a young, plucky, visionary Irish woman who survived the Great Famine, achieves a hard-won identity as an Irish-American. Loving an Irish rebel, helping escaped slaves, and overcoming rape and loss, this gritty character is no pig-headed Bridie, and could be any woman, any immigrant, at any time in America.
See My Screenplay page for more information.
Logline: In turbulent, racist, and gang-mired 19th-Century New York, a young, plucky, visionary Irish woman who survived the Great Famine, achieves a hard-won identity as an Irish-American. Loving an Irish rebel, helping escaped slaves, and overcoming rape and loss, this gritty character is no pig-headed Bridie, and could be any woman, any immigrant, at any time in America.
See My Screenplay page for more information.
The Blue Vega – Screenplay
Based on a short story about a small town in upstate New York, this screenplay expands on a single mother’s life and dreams to sing and raise her six children in the 1960s.
See My Screenplay page for more information.
Based on a short story about a small town in upstate New York, this screenplay expands on a single mother’s life and dreams to sing and raise her six children in the 1960s.
See My Screenplay page for more information.
Tea on the Rocks, A Basket of Sumptuous Charm
I had a Victorian tea catering business many years ago called Miss Havisham’s Victorian Teas. One summer, while sitting on rocks overlooking the ocean in Maine, I became ravenous for scones and tea, but there were none to be had for miles around. Later, I was inspired to create a new business to cater to those who, like me, yearn for tea and scones, served with elegance and grace, no matter where you are. Tea on the Rocks, A Basket of Sumptuous Charm, coming to rocky shore near you is a dream, but not yet in progress.
Nevertheless, at our antique home, I have a dance room and often have quartet practices, Irish ceili dances, and readings where I serve tea and delicious tea fare.
I had a Victorian tea catering business many years ago called Miss Havisham’s Victorian Teas. One summer, while sitting on rocks overlooking the ocean in Maine, I became ravenous for scones and tea, but there were none to be had for miles around. Later, I was inspired to create a new business to cater to those who, like me, yearn for tea and scones, served with elegance and grace, no matter where you are. Tea on the Rocks, A Basket of Sumptuous Charm, coming to rocky shore near you is a dream, but not yet in progress.
Nevertheless, at our antique home, I have a dance room and often have quartet practices, Irish ceili dances, and readings where I serve tea and delicious tea fare.
Diamond Juba
In the early spring of 2005, I was at a Barnes and Noble book event hosting New England authors. Alongside me sat the robust and spirited Haywood Fennell, Sr., author of Coota and the Magic Quilt. As we connected, my mind began swirling with possibilities. Haywood is also a playwright and has written two theater productions, “From Gospel to Hip-Hop and All in Between” and “Harlem Renaissance Revisited with a Boston Flavor.” I shared with him about the scene in my sequel, Hope in New York City, where Norah and Irish immigrants dance with African-Americans at Pete Williams Dance Hall. We laughed and felt that his character, Coota, and my character, Norah, were meeting that very day! I pulled the scene from my novel, Hope in New York City, and wrote the musical play, Diamond Juba, with Haywood’s encouragement. Two young children (black and white) in New York of the 1850s meet Jack Diamond, the famous Irish jig dancer and Master Juba (William Henry Lane), the famous ham and bone dancer and all of them collide into dance in the midst of racial sharpness and honesty. It’s time to see this play produced, as we unfortunately still struggle with racial harmony and injustice.
In the early spring of 2005, I was at a Barnes and Noble book event hosting New England authors. Alongside me sat the robust and spirited Haywood Fennell, Sr., author of Coota and the Magic Quilt. As we connected, my mind began swirling with possibilities. Haywood is also a playwright and has written two theater productions, “From Gospel to Hip-Hop and All in Between” and “Harlem Renaissance Revisited with a Boston Flavor.” I shared with him about the scene in my sequel, Hope in New York City, where Norah and Irish immigrants dance with African-Americans at Pete Williams Dance Hall. We laughed and felt that his character, Coota, and my character, Norah, were meeting that very day! I pulled the scene from my novel, Hope in New York City, and wrote the musical play, Diamond Juba, with Haywood’s encouragement. Two young children (black and white) in New York of the 1850s meet Jack Diamond, the famous Irish jig dancer and Master Juba (William Henry Lane), the famous ham and bone dancer and all of them collide into dance in the midst of racial sharpness and honesty. It’s time to see this play produced, as we unfortunately still struggle with racial harmony and injustice.