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Diane Schochet
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Diane Schochet graduated from UCLA, majored in Theater Arts, has a real estate broker’s license, taught school (4thgrade, community college literature, English as a Second Language), directed, produced and acted in Community Theater productions, was a creative dramatics consultant for school districts, museums, and community theaters, took writing classes all over Southern California, including advanced novel workshops through the UCLA novel writing program, wrote two plays produced by a professional children’s theater group. Her non-fiction profiles include: weddings, chili cook offs, old hockey players, elephant keepers, and other kooky stuff have been published in periodicals such as Career, Porthole, Active Times and 4H. |
Cog Stone Dreams
A cog stone is a unique archeological artifact from 2,000-9,000 years ago found along the mouth of the Santa Ana River in southern California, and may have been used by long-ago human inhabitants to grind corn or beans. Cog Stone Dreams is a whimsical look at 9,000 years of history of Westbruk Wetlands history peopled by smugglers, wise grandmothers, ambitious explorers, more ambitious missionaries, a royal who pretends to be a commoner, rich people who live the high life, poor people who catch malaria, stunt men, thieves, priests, members of a fancy-smancy gun club, oil men (including one who communicates with dead people and grows cactus), a murderer and me. My name is Dessa Halom Lechmann. I write the syndicated Dear Dessa Dreams advice column for the Bulletin Gazette newspaper chain. In 1946, when I was ten I brought a dream inducing cog stone. If things don’t go well for me, I take the cog stone to bed and dream about the wetlands. Because my parents divorced, my mother was crazy, I broke up with Mr. Perfect to marry Mr. Not So Perfect, I’ve been real sick, and witnessed a murder, I’ve taken that dream inducing cog stone to bed a lot. So now I’m a real authority on the Westbruk Wetlands and you can ask me about anything you want to know. ISBN: 1-937781-8-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-937781-99-6 Add to shopping cart. $5.99
Praise for Diane Schochet:
“With her unique voice and the strong, fresh choices she makes, Diane Schochet is ready to take her place in the literary novel arena.” Kris Neri, award winning author and teacher in the UCLA novel writing program.
“How to express how I feel when I read her work. It’s a slap but a good one. Like a fresh, clean slap, Diane Schochet's writing wakes you up and makes you pay attention. Her characters are original and speak their minds, or at least think them. Interesting and provocative always.”
- Jessica Inclan, recipient of an Artist’s Fellowship for Literature from the California Arts Council, author, poet, teacher in the UCLA novel writing program.
“I liked reading Diane Schochet’s pages, the dream imagery, the story logic and the dialogue. She has a vivid sense of depicting a scene in real time even when it’s a period piece. Her characters were imaginative and the conflict between characters was clearly delineated.”
- Leslie Lehr, 1998 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Gold Medal for Best Novella, screen writer, novel writer and teacher in the UCLA novel writing program.
"Your writing is entirely captivating; you have the voice of a natural storyteller and I expect to see you have a very successful writing career."
- Patricia Kay, USA Today best selling author and writing instructor.
