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Book: Playing Charlie Cool (Trager Family Secrets Book 3) by Laurie Boris
categories: Book, Contemporary Fiction, Gay Fiction, LGBT, Romance, Family Secrets, Sweet Romance, New York Stories, Entertainment, Relationships, Family Drama, Divorce, Politics, Literary FictionLaurie Boris

"Very sweet story that was smartly written and kept me rooting for Charlie and Josh through the very end. Looking forward to more." - Amazon reviewer
Playing Charlie Cool is a contemporary novel about Charlie Trager, a producer on a top-rated daytime television talk show. He's always been lucky—he has a great job, supportive family and friends, and finally, he's in love. But that's where his good luck might have run out. Falling for Charlie has given Joshua Goldberg, heir to a New York political dynasty, the courage to come out in public—and to his wife. Now Joshua is struggling with an election and a spiteful ex threatening custody of his children if Charlie is in the picture. The ever-resourceful Charlie has a plan to save their relationship, but is he too late?
Although I'm normally comfortable writing from the point of view of a passel of characters who are not me, male and female, I felt a little sensitive when I started writing Playing Charlie Cool. I know what it's like to fall in love with a man, but I don't pretend to know what it's like to be a gay man. Just as I don't pretend to understand the experiences, thoughts, and emotions of, well, anyone who isn't me. But I've always felt that if I approach a character with empathy and sensitivity, getting to know this person, I could create an authentic voice—a human, an individual, and not a stereotype. I'm fortunate to have grown up in an open-minded, liberal family, and the sexual orientation of the people in my life just became another fact about them: blue eyes, hates broccoli, has a closet full of Chuck Taylors, attracted to men. Still, those same liberal roots heightened my sensitivity about approaching this project. Was I being respectful? Did I even have a right to do this?
So I asked Charlie: "Dude. I'm almost old enough to be your mother. And, yeah, there's that other thing. Do you really trust me on this?"
He said, "Hell, yeah." Actually, he used a word you can't say on television. That was enough to get me started.
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