Why I Wrote Saving Porterville

What can one person do? I wrote this book because drug addiction and cartels continue to kill our loved ones and friends.

As many of you know, I live in south Florida. However, I have relatives who reside in a small town and environs in Ohio. After many reports of deaths, i.e. young men being found dead behind the wheels of cars at stoplights, as well as under other conditions. Feeling helpless and concerned, I felt the least I could do was write about the crisis.

Along with much research, I chose to use a novel approach. Although the crisis continues to be worldwide, it is also a very personal thing in small towns and large cities. No one is immune to the tragedy.

The mute button seems to have been placed on many of us who yearn to speak out out on the matter, or the lack of intervention by world leaders. There is a deep need to empty our hearts and many of us believe it is good for the soul. Instead of thinking on a national level, perhaps the answer is healing one town or city at a time. The individual need not feel helpless in the fight on illegal drugs and the harm they do. A few good people can do amazing things when the heart is involved.

So, if you have a heavy heart about something you can’t change, expressing those feelings can help to relieve the tension, even if it is only telling it to the blank page in your composition book. Or, better still, send those powerful words to the people who have the power to change the world if they have the courage to do so.

I hope my readers will enjoy this novel that is based on facts, and also the delightful mid=life love story that should give hope and a few smiles is our present unsettling world.

Thanks for listening.