Carter Rossi moves to Cape Charles, Virginia, for the same reasons as many of the town’s residents—to find solitude and reboot his life. Carter quickly discovers an eclectic mix of new arrivals and historic families. Despite political and cultural differences, the groups coexist in harmony. Carter meets the mysterious and beautiful Rose Portman, a parapsychologist who is attempting to find out why Cape Charles is a hotbed for paranormal activity. Could it be the asteroid strike? She is on a quest to discover whether one of the town’s resident apparitions is her long-lost great aunt, who died mysteriously around 1920. Rose and Carter’s journey is sometimes hilarious, sensual, and spiritually insightful, bending the edges of imagination and reality.
The reviews are in…
"Woo-Woo gives me just what I want: a little haunting in my travels. It's a true you-think-you're-there experience. As a writer, I'm jealous. As a reader, I'm delighted."
New York Times Bestselling Author Diane Carey, Star Trek Series
"Joe Coccaro employs the same quality prose as Richard Russo in telling the story of Carter Rossi's adventures. This is a really great story, and more than that it is a world you are reluctant to leave when you turn the last page."
Amazon Bestselling Author William Hazelgrove, Author of The Pitcher
"Woo-Woo is a comedy of manners, a la Oscar Wilde, where the damaged main character tries to fit into a strange new world with an arcane and wacky social structure."
Bestselling Author Joe Jackson, the Mina Hohenberg Darden Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University
Joe Coccaro has been writing and editing professionally since graduating from Syracuse University, where he earned a master's degree from the prestigious S.I. Newhouse School of Communications. In his more than thirty years as a professional journalist, Joe has won scores of state, regional, and national awards as both a writer and editor. He has worked for major newspapers in New York State, New Jersey, and Virginia. For the past six years, Joe has been a book editor and book writer, currently serving as executive editor and vice president of Koehler Books. Joe has edited more than 200 works of fiction and nonfiction, dozens of which have won literary awards. He has ghostwritten several titles and coauthored three books. Woo-Woo is Joe's first novel published under his name.
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