Sat, 19 May 2012 08:26:26 -0500WeeblyMon, 05 Mar 2012 10:17:46 -0500http://stancutlerauthor.com/1/post/2012/03/attention-agents-publishers-and-media-executives.htmlBoth LOW LIGHT and THE HOMEFRONT have been adapted for the screen, LOW LIGHT as a feature film and THE HOMEFRONT as the pilot episode of  a TV detective drama.
]]>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:10:47 -0500http://stancutlerauthor.com/1/post/2012/02/attention-publishers-and-agents.html     The summer of 1944 was a fulcrum season in history.  American soldiers were dying by the thousand trying to wrest the hedgerows of Normandy from the Wehrmacht. On the other side of the world, Marines  on a remote island called Saipan were trying to dislodge suicidal Japanese. Everything was rationed. Manpower shortages were the norm. People thought about little else beside the war.
     
     In The HOMEFRONT, readers watch the events of 1944 through the eyes of a man with a unique viewpoint. Levitan wants to be part of the action but is prohibited because of his politics and physical condition.
     
     After that summer, the balance of world power would shift permanently to the United States of America. The obsolescence of the battleship, and its replacement by American aircraft carriers was at the heart of the shift.
    
     The idea that the world was going to be different if America won the war was particularly important to American Jews,  who were at once concerned about the fate of their relatives in Europe and aware that old empires were withering, perhaps allowing a new world order in which Jews might regain control of their national destiny for the first time since the sack of Jerusalem by Rome. 
   
     THE HOMEFRONT's characters are  challenged to deal with these  cultural and political changes in deeply personal ways. 

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