Word Association

Literature by Coachella Valley writers

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Audrey Peyton of Palm Desert has published Ashes (Xlibris), a science-fiction novel set in the mid-1950s about Earth’s last survivors. Peyton previously wrote a romantic suspense titled Like a Diamond in the Sky; a romantic suspense, science fiction novel titled Shalimar; and a biography of former MGM lion trainer Floyd Humeston titled Fagan & Floyd.

Ted Bacino of Palm Springs has published The Shakespeare Conspiracy (AuthorHouse), a historical novel that intertwines two conspiracy mysteries: How could William Shakespeare become England’s greatest playwright virtually overnight when he was an un-known actor who had never written anything before? And how could Christopher Marlowe, a known spy and the previous reigning playwright in England, be murdered and quickly buried in an unmarked grave days before he was to be tried for treason?