About
CHICAGO TO CORONADO™ is a Twitter romance/suspense soap opera written in 140 word soundbytes. The storyline follows a culturally-challenged Chicago to Coronado transplant – a former Prada-heeled agency CEO, noted feminist, Economic Club of Chicago member and Entrepreneur Magazine writer thrust into a world of Navy SEALs and flipflops. The book begins with her driving cross country in a 10 year old Saab. Her car dies in Omaha and she flies on Southwest Airlines to Coronado. When her car is repaired she flies back to Omaha and completes the drive with Matt Claymore, a stoic, jaded former Navy SEAL and her primary love interest. Eventually she settles in to Coronado, her new home. Her new neighbor on the Island is “Academy”, a promising recently BUD/s and SQL trained SEAL. A love triangle ensues.
On the surface, Coronado seems like Pleasantville. It rarely rains on the 7.4 square mile Island. Firemen still save cats, the Coronado Islander football team nearly always wins, only 4 registered sex offenders among the 24k city residents. But from the Hotel Del and the little flower lady perched in City Square…to the all-male Navy SEALS training grounds, the politics of a city represented by a Federal Lobbyist Firm, and the 2.2 mile long Bay Bridge ranked the 3rd deadliest suicide bridge in the U.S…Coronado is a quirky setting.
Many notable Chicago men before her fell in love with Coronado’s charm, but each met misfortune. HAMPTON STORY sold his Chicago business, Story & Clark Pianos, to his son and relocated to Coronado. He formed the Coronado Beach Company, built the Hotel Del in 1887, but later lost his assets. Chicago born LARRY LAWRENCE purchased the Hotel Del in 1963. Lawrence was one of the leading Advocates for the Bay Bridge, Ambassador to Switzerland, buried upon death in Arlington Cemetery and later disinterred because of falsified military records. FRANK BAUM was living in Chicago and travelling to Coronado while he was writing the Wizard of Oz books. Although he inspired Hollywood movie production in Coronado, he died bankrupt. What will happen to our heroine, @kirsteno?
