A Friendly Interview

Back on the cyberwaves for a podcast interview talking about  my new  novel, Friendship Fog. Click here to lend an ear. Thanks to the folks at WritersBone.com! Also go to PeterHalseySherwood.net for more info.

Friendship Fog is an urban fairy tale for anyone who has ever been in love ... or searched for it desperately. From a Fourth of July celebration in 1976 introducing four young lives in Friendship, Maine to modern day Manhattan, this charming cocktail infused with arresting humor spans the decades in a singular, fanciful exploration of the heart and mind—and ultimately, friendship. Clifford Bowles is now the ultra-fabulous mogul who helms the Divine Living omni-media empire while in the midst of a lonely midlife crisis. However, his boozy best friend Van Dillon is a prominent theatrical agent, whom fate has recently delivered into the paws of a hunky veterinarian. Orlanda DeCardinier, a ridiculous psychic career coach, has a bigger hand in all of the business than even she realizes as the estranged Laura Trelawny, a frazzled psychiatrist, re-emerges to reveal a most disquieting secret that affects them all.

I hope you do enjoy Friendship Fog! 

Friendship Fog - VIDEO TRAILER!

The one-minute video trailer for my new novel Friendship Fog is now available for your own private screening. Download the ebook or find it in hardcover and paperback at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iTunes. Video trailers for my Murdery Delicious series here as well. Do enjoy!

Friendship Fog is an urban fairy tale for anyone who has ever been in love ... or searched for it desperately. From a Fourth of July celebration in 1976 introducing four young lives in Friendship, Maine to modern day Manhattan, this charming cocktail infused with arresting humor spans the decades in a singular, fanciful exploration of the heart and mind—and ultimately, friendship. Clifford Bowles is now the ultra-fabulous mogul who helms the Divine Living omni-media empire while in the midst of a lonely midlife crisis. However, his boozy best friend Van Dillon is a prominent theatrical agent, whom fate has recently delivered into the paws of a hunky veterinarian. Orlanda DeCardinier, a ridiculous psychic career coach, has a bigger hand in all of the business than even she realizes as the estranged Laura Trelawny, a frazzled psychiatrist, re-emerges to reveal a most disquieting secret that affects them all. 

Friendship Fog - NOW AVAILABLE!

As you consider your family for the holidays, also remember all of  your...friends! #FriendshipFog!

My new novel, #Friendship Fog, NOW READY FOR PURCHASE!

Download the ebook or find it in hardcover and paperback at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iTunes.

Do enjoy!

Forever grateful,

Peter

Shouldn't You Just...? Buy My Book!

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Friendship Fog is an urban fairy tale for anyone who has ever been in love ... or searched for it desperately. From a Fourth of July celebration in 1976 introducing four young lives in Friendship, Maine to modern day Manhattan, this charming cocktail infused with arresting humor spans the decades in a singular, fanciful exploration of the heart and mind—and ultimately, friendship. Clifford Bowles is now the ultra-fabulous mogul who helms the Divine Living omni-media empire while in the midst of a lonely midlife crisis. However, his boozy best friend Van Dillon is a prominent theatrical agent, whom fate has recently delivered into the paws of a hunky veterinarian. Orlanda DeCardinier, a ridiculous psychic career coach, has a bigger hand in all of the business than even she realizes as the estranged Laura Trelawny, a frazzled psychiatrist, re-emerges to reveal a most disquieting secret that affects them all. 

Do enjoy!

Shouldn't You Just...? Part Three!

Part Three...a SNEAK PEEK into my soon approaching, new novel Friendship Fog, laced with seasonal menus to feed the heart and mind! Here, our hero Clifford Bowles, the ultra-fabulous mogul who helms the Divine Living omni-media empire, offers a few words pulled from his monthly column. 

SHOULDN’T YOU JUST…?
by Clifford Bowles

Mr. Bowles offers his advice on furnishing the home.

• string shimmering white Christmas icicle lights about your kitchen year round?
• wrap a faux white mink throw over yourself as you tuck into bed?
• seek out antique lady head vases and fill them with rosy pink peonies?
• give crystal or Wedgwood as a housewarming gift or birthday present to start a dear friend’s collection?
• utilize Japanese black lacquered trays by filling them with persimmons for centerpieces?
• or enliven your table with leafy kumquats still on their branches and also consider miniature apples?

Shouldn't You Just...? Part Two!

Part Two...a SNEAK PEEK into my soon approaching, new novel Friendship Fog, laced with seasonal menus to feed the heart and mind! Here, our hero Clifford Bowles, the ultra-fabulous mogul who helms the Divine Living omni-media empire, offers a few words pulled from his monthly column. 

SHOULDN’T YOU JUST…?
by Clifford Bowles

Mr. Bowles offers his sartorial advice and consul on the finer points of one’s appearance.

• Wear a whistle?
• Wear a monocle to complement your evening attire?
• Splash cool water on your face more often? It tightens the pores.
• Sport black velvet riding pants as an antidote to an ordinary day?
• Consider your jacket as a handy satchel, filling the pockets with necessities such as cigarettes, breath mints, and a comb?
• Forego all manner of Pride wear?
• Stop tinting your lashes?
• Stitch a wide leather belt with your name and telephone number on it?
• Think of sunglasses as a headband to keep the hair off the face for those of you with longer locks?
• Have delicious patches of fabric sewn on to your favorite old cashmere sweater with the elbows blown out?

Clifford Bowles' Designs for Entertaining - A September Supper

In which our hero of Friendship Fog, Mr. Bowles, suggests a mindful menu deliciously designed to delight, from his new, best-selling book on entertaining!

Clifford Bowles’ Designs for Entertaining

A September Supper

Serves four

Raspberry Lambic

Endive with roasted chestnuts, gorgonzola, and fig jam with drizzled balsamic honey

Salad of cubed golden beets, corn, and basil with red vinegar dressing

Chicken pot pie in buttercup squash

Latticed McIntosh apple strudel swirl

Spiked cinnamon coffee

As our sunburns fade and summer slips away, we say goodbye to our seasonal friends and leave our vacation vista behind—whether it be a rental cottage by the lake, campground, or family summer place—and prepare to face the fall. Autumn is when seeds are planted like secrets in the ground not yet frozen, where they grow, mature, and develop just beneath the surface, waiting patiently until spring to deliver wondrous surprises. Now that we’ve returned from the shore, so to speak, redolent of salt air, cookouts, and clambakes, I suggest getting back to your roots (and tubers) and setting down to your hometown favorites. For me, it’s the splendors of an autumn in New Hampshire. I’ve created an intimate fall menu perfect to share among four dear old friends. Based on fruits of the season, I’ve incorporated the chestnuts we used to pluck off the trees and roast as children, buttercup squash, and included my Nana’s recipe for latticed McIntosh apple strudel. Trips to the nearby McIntosh orchard when I was a child shine in my memory like the apples. If you are lucky enough to have the weather for it, plan your gathering out of doors with the changing leaves as a backdrop. Perhaps you may just want to clink a glass to the change of the seasons and drink up the last of summer as you and your closest close up your summer home.

Yours,

Clifford Bowles

Shouldn't You Just ... ?

A SNEAK PEEK into my soon approaching, new novel Friendship Fog, laced with seasonal menus to feed the heart and mind! Here, our hero Clifford Bowles, the ultra-fabulous mogul who helms the Divine Living omni-media empire, offers a few words pulled from his monthly column. 

SHOULDN’T YOU JUST … ?
by Clifford Bowles

Mr. Bowles offers his advice on modern etiquette.

• Sneeze more privately in public to avoid too much of a fuss?
• Talk more conservatively on your cellular phone in public? The conversation does not involve two cans and a string. Yes, the person on the other end of the line can hear you. We all can hear you.
• Use note cards for thank yous? Rather than a mere email, a phone call is preferable the next day too as a thank you for a dinner or cocktail party. Take the extra time as your host did for entertaining you.
• Rein in your Vuitton wheelie bag when traveling? It needn’t be more than a foot behind you. Statistics show that most tripping accidents in airports and railway stations occur because of an unduly extended suitcase on wheels.
• Discourage your pets from soaking others’ garbage with their urine streams? If only to lessen the work of the sanitation engineer?