Summer 2007 It's never boring in our shop, but what a twelve months! A feature film, a new soap, a new novel for adults (yay) with a not-so-demure title, a new play, and other projects so top secret that if we told you about them we'd have to put you into solitary confinement (or worse), and a move from Salt Lake City back to Los Angeles. The soap is THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, and there's a reason it's been the highest-rated daytime drama for the last zillion years. We started writing scripts in the autumn of 2006, and returned to Los Angeles to be the Associate Head Writers of that show in June of 2007. Great writing, great acting, great stories…if you don't watch, it's addicting. It certainly has us addicted. The adult novel is TURN ME ON (NAL, July 3, 2007). In it, 20-something Annie gets rich overnight with her invention: the world's first talking vibrator. But Annie isn't as interested in the money as she is in the voice behind the invention. That voice belongs to a handsome and 30-ish middle school teacher named Charlie. Up for a McArthur-style genius grant, Charlie desperately does not want to be found. Check out www.turnmeoninc.com for all the lastest. Cherie's new play is REVIVING OPHELIA, adapted from Dr. Mary Pipher's seminal nonfiction work about teen girls. A teen-themed version of this play suitable for touring had its premiere in 2006 under the auspices of the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. A full-length, grittier version - that tells it how it really is for girls today - had its world premiere in May 2007 at the Babcock Theater in Salt Lake City. Both versions are published and licensed by Dramatic Publishing Company. The super-secret projects of the past twelve months? Forget it. We're not talking. Fabulous milestones marked in the Gottesfeld/Bennett household, too. Our son Igor celebrated his four-year anniversary in America on March 4th. Jeff had a milestone birthday marked by a cross-the-country-to-get-to-it surprise party in New York City last summer. Cherie has been made a feature author in a meet-the-author series from Prentice Hall, and is the winner of the 2007 Ann Flagg Multicultural Award from the American Alliance of Theater and Education. As usual, we answer all our email personally (no matter how long it takes -- we know that without our readers and viewers, we'd have no career). The email addresses are authorchik@aol.com for Cherie and jeffgottesfeld@yahoo.com for Jeff. Cherie & Jeff