April Woo Being Developed For TV Series By CBS

Happy National Recovery Month. We're celebrating in Tampa on September 25, where Secret World of Recovery Will be shown at the David Straz Center of Performing Arts. www.DACCO.org, Reachoutrecovery.com

CBS has signed on for the April Woo series.

This is the news that April Woo fans have been waiting for, since. Well, ever since all the CSIs, The Bones and Monks and other wonderful series began. Wonderful novelist Amy Bloom is the show runner, developing the pilot now. All people can talk about is who will play April? Who will play April?

I have no idea. It's not up to me. All I can say is the series is set in Coney Island. I'm thrilled about that because all the deals that didn't work out included some doozies. Can we do it in London and have April be Indian? Can we do it in Seattle and have her be Japanese. Can we do it in Los Angeles and have her be half and half something? Well, no, no and no. So, she's Chinese, in Coney Island with the Russian mob, the strippers and Mafia. So great. I can't wait to see it.

I spent the summer filming The Silent Majority, Lindsey and my new feature documentary about prevention and recovery programs that are working. We filmed Drug-free youth in North Port; Teen Court in Sarasota County Florida and Nassau County New York at Hofstra Law School. We filmed Road Recovery, a New York based organization that uses music to help teens in recovery. Rock musicians mentor the Road Recovery band. Road Recovery teens composed and performed all the music for the film and will be featured at our Rock and Run our two day event in Sarasota on October 21 and 22nd where we will film the concert for the film.

I never thought I would produce a film like the Secret World of Recovery. I never thought I would be making films about young people finding new ways to help themselves and friends stay sober in a drinking and substance using world. I never thought I would sponsor a rock concert, never mind a sober rock concert.

All the bad things in my life that I never wanted to happen, happened, but all the good things that are happening now I never thought would happen, either. So, as this new fall season is upon us, on the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 we have a lot to remember. A lot to think and talk about. So many challenges face our country and communities. But even those among us who are living and suffering with the addiction of someone they love (or a bad habit of their own that they can't seem to break), we still have a lot to be grateful for and a lot we can do to help others and ourselves.

I am committed to educating people about addiction and recovery. There is a lot to do to highlight the programs that are working, and the tools that help people stay sober after their rehab is complete. Watch for our website Recoverme.com Watch for our news about our book All's Forgiven, A Mother and Daughter's Journey from Addiction to Recovery and Beyond.

And watch for a new April Woo novel. Who knows, she may return in print as well.