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Unfaithful
MY NEW BOOK UNFAITHFUL IS NOW
ON SALE AT BARNES & NOBLE (bn.com)
This is how it came about. My very close friend, Mikey, Michael Catherine Merrill, were talking about our families, and how dysfunctional they were. Mikey, and I have been close friends for eight years. Several years ago, I persuaded her edit my books, which she did for the last two, “The Little Stream,” a fictional environmental story for young children, and “Should I Have Become a Furrier.? This book is about the career choices we make, for good or bad, using my choices, for the several career’s I have accumulated.
About a year ago she mentioned an actual occurrence in her family’s history. I was fascinated, and the more we discussed it, the more I saw the possibility of creating a fictionalized story, using that occurrence as the basis of the story. So, I started writing this story about a very dysfunctional family, with an underlying, secret love story. We experience it through the eyes of our protagonist Caroline Graham.
The story starts in the present, as Caroline Graham walks through the upper floors of her Manhattan, Upper East Side converted firehouse. These floors are her home, while the ground floor is divided into her very successful interior design business, her gym and spa, and a small garage for her 1961 red Jaguar.
It is an early Saturday morning. She is waiting for Cathy, her best friend of fifty-eight years, who is driving from Westchester County to pick her up, and then spend the weekend together in East Hampton.
When Cathy calls to tell her she is leaving, she also tells her of the strangest discovery, that involves both of their families. When Caroline asks what it is, Cathy says not on the phone, when she gets there.
Their families fifty-eight years together were constantly entwined in both joyful and tragic events. We experience those years, and events through Caroline’s reflections. Her father’s demeaning attitude toward the family. Always in conflict with her brother Stephen, but most damaging, the constant verbal abuse, and infidelity toward her mother June.
Although Caroline tries to mitigate these occurrences, it is Uncle Frank, Cathy’s uncle, a Jesuit Priest, who is always there to correct these situations, to offer comfort, and understanding, especially to June.
Even after her father dies, and her divorce from an unfaithful husband, Caroline still puts her personal life on hold, until after June dies. With her son as a young adult, she is now free to pursue a career as an interior designer.
It has been very rewarding writing, and designing this book. Of course, many of the events in the book were drawn from my life, and Mikey’s life. When we were proofing the book, some of those events created emotional responses, from both of us.
If you are interested in viewing the book on Barnes & Noble, it’s easier to search by using my name. I didn’t realize how many books had the word Unfaithful in their title.
CheshireKids Entertainment – cheshirekids.org
ON SALE AT BARNES & NOBLE (bn.com)
This is how it came about. My very close friend, Mikey, Michael Catherine Merrill, were talking about our families, and how dysfunctional they were. Mikey, and I have been close friends for eight years. Several years ago, I persuaded her edit my books, which she did for the last two, “The Little Stream,” a fictional environmental story for young children, and “Should I Have Become a Furrier.? This book is about the career choices we make, for good or bad, using my choices, for the several career’s I have accumulated.
About a year ago she mentioned an actual occurrence in her family’s history. I was fascinated, and the more we discussed it, the more I saw the possibility of creating a fictionalized story, using that occurrence as the basis of the story. So, I started writing this story about a very dysfunctional family, with an underlying, secret love story. We experience it through the eyes of our protagonist Caroline Graham.
The story starts in the present, as Caroline Graham walks through the upper floors of her Manhattan, Upper East Side converted firehouse. These floors are her home, while the ground floor is divided into her very successful interior design business, her gym and spa, and a small garage for her 1961 red Jaguar.
It is an early Saturday morning. She is waiting for Cathy, her best friend of fifty-eight years, who is driving from Westchester County to pick her up, and then spend the weekend together in East Hampton.
When Cathy calls to tell her she is leaving, she also tells her of the strangest discovery, that involves both of their families. When Caroline asks what it is, Cathy says not on the phone, when she gets there.
Their families fifty-eight years together were constantly entwined in both joyful and tragic events. We experience those years, and events through Caroline’s reflections. Her father’s demeaning attitude toward the family. Always in conflict with her brother Stephen, but most damaging, the constant verbal abuse, and infidelity toward her mother June.
Although Caroline tries to mitigate these occurrences, it is Uncle Frank, Cathy’s uncle, a Jesuit Priest, who is always there to correct these situations, to offer comfort, and understanding, especially to June.
Even after her father dies, and her divorce from an unfaithful husband, Caroline still puts her personal life on hold, until after June dies. With her son as a young adult, she is now free to pursue a career as an interior designer.
It has been very rewarding writing, and designing this book. Of course, many of the events in the book were drawn from my life, and Mikey’s life. When we were proofing the book, some of those events created emotional responses, from both of us.
If you are interested in viewing the book on Barnes & Noble, it’s easier to search by using my name. I didn’t realize how many books had the word Unfaithful in their title.
CheshireKids Entertainment – cheshirekids.org
188 pages, Paperback
First published November 10, 2021
About the author
Gene Piotrowsky
9 booksThe Literary Titan Silver Book Award and Emmy winning Mr. Piotrowsky grew up in New York City where he started his career in advertising, and marketing. Over the next forty years, he has been an art director, writer, and photographer for publishing companies, advertising agencies, and corporations, in New York, and Los Angeles.
In the mid-eighties, he started his own advertising design agency, and television production company. His clients have included The Food Network, Ray Ban Sunglasses, Fortune Magazine, AT&T, New York Magazine, Grolier Publishing, Howell Book House, and Bantam Books. He has written, designed and produced television commercials, corporate and marketing videos, as well as designing books, and book covers.
Mr. Piotrowsky also has extensive credits in film, and network television in both production, and post production, which has earned him an Emmy for, “Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children’s Programming,” for the “CBS Festival of Lively Arts,” show “A Special Day in The Year of The Child,” and a Primetime Emmy Nomination for “Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design, and Title Sequences,” for the “PBS Visions Series,” feature film “The Gardener’s Son.”
He has been involved in network series, as post production supervisor, and second unit director, for NBC’s movie and series, “True Blue,” and ABC’s series, “Bellevue Emergency,” and as editor for the “Canned Film Festival,” a syndicated sitcom.
Mr. Piotrowsky is now operating his design, and publishing company CheshireKids Entertainment. He has written six books, his latest a novel, “UNFAITHFUL,” is now available on Barnes&Noble, bn.com. His five previous books, “Should I Have Become a Furrier,” “The Little Stream,” “Have I Become My Father,” “The Adventures of Murray the Misunderstood Moray Eel,” and “Images,” are available on his website, cheshirekids.org. In addition to his books, he has designed and published four other books written by his late partner.
In the mid-eighties, he started his own advertising design agency, and television production company. His clients have included The Food Network, Ray Ban Sunglasses, Fortune Magazine, AT&T, New York Magazine, Grolier Publishing, Howell Book House, and Bantam Books. He has written, designed and produced television commercials, corporate and marketing videos, as well as designing books, and book covers.
Mr. Piotrowsky also has extensive credits in film, and network television in both production, and post production, which has earned him an Emmy for, “Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children’s Programming,” for the “CBS Festival of Lively Arts,” show “A Special Day in The Year of The Child,” and a Primetime Emmy Nomination for “Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design, and Title Sequences,” for the “PBS Visions Series,” feature film “The Gardener’s Son.”
He has been involved in network series, as post production supervisor, and second unit director, for NBC’s movie and series, “True Blue,” and ABC’s series, “Bellevue Emergency,” and as editor for the “Canned Film Festival,” a syndicated sitcom.
Mr. Piotrowsky is now operating his design, and publishing company CheshireKids Entertainment. He has written six books, his latest a novel, “UNFAITHFUL,” is now available on Barnes&Noble, bn.com. His five previous books, “Should I Have Become a Furrier,” “The Little Stream,” “Have I Become My Father,” “The Adventures of Murray the Misunderstood Moray Eel,” and “Images,” are available on his website, cheshirekids.org. In addition to his books, he has designed and published four other books written by his late partner.
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