Mud Season

<p data-sleek-node-id=70ea26><strong>A riotous exploration of ambition passion and greed. -Christopher Smith theater critic <em>The Orange County Register</em></strong></p><p data-sleek-node-id=70ea26><strong>A raucous satire of our times that is also an affecting study of family bonds and an acerbic tribute to the flawed glorious once-mighty dinosaur that was daily journalism. -Ana Menendez critically acclaimed author of <em>In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd </em>and<em> The Apartment</em></strong></p><p data-sleek-node-id=70ea26><em>Mud Season</em> tells the story of Woody Hackworth a disgraced newspaper reporter and wannabe novelist. Resentful bored and looking for a way to get back at his ex-employer Woody makes a fateful decision: to write an environmental thriller and post chapters online as he goes.</p><p data-sleek-node-id=70ea26>His novel-in-progress gains traction in the gossipy snow-belt city of Icarus New York but not for reasons Woody wanted. His readers believe Woody is using his fiction to expose his in-laws and their successful family-owned construction business.</p><p data-sleek-node-id=70ea26>With each new post Woody's domestic discord grows but how can he stop now? He's almost famous.</p><p data-sleek-node-id=70ea26><em>Mud Season</em> merrily wallows in the classic conflict between ambition and family digs into the murky perils of online notoriety and slings a comic-tragic elegy to the daily newspaper.</p><p data-sleek-node-id=70ea26></p>