Tired of being neglected by her conservative suit-and-tie hubby, Julie finds herself drawn to a local yachtsman named Peter. 

In a Cinderella-esque twist, her wicked half-sisters are trying to take over her dead father's ranch at any cost.

~ Tired of Being Neglected
~ Larry O. Dean was born and raised in Flint, Michigan.

He attended the University of Michigan, where he won three Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing, an honor shared with fellow poets Robert Hayden, Jane Kenyon, and Frank O'Hara, among others; and Murray State University's low-residency MFA program. He is author of numerous chapbooks, including I Am Spam (2004), poems “inspired” by junk email; abbrev (2011), a short series of poems based on abbreviations and acronyms culled from popular culture as well as technical and business jargon; and About the Author (2011). A full-length collection, Brief Nudity, is forthcoming in 2013. His poetry has also been internationally translated and anthologized. In addition, he is a singer-songwriter, performing solo as well as with his current band, The Injured Parties; he has released many critically-acclaimed CD’s, including Fables in Slang (2001) with Post Office, Gentrification Is Theft (2002) with The Me Decade, and Fun with a Purpose (2009). Dean was a 2004 recipient of the Hands on Stanzas Gwendolyn Brooks Award, presented by the Poetry Center of Chicago. Contact him at larryodean.com.