Joanna FitzPatrick's most recent novel THE DRUMMER'S WIDOW chronicles a woman facing life alone after her husband's death. Jules was a famous drummer who traveled all over the world; Marisa was his manager; they were inseparable; their partnership gave her life meaning. How could she go on without him? An element of art following life underlies the story of THE DRUMMER'S WIDOW. Joanna FitzPatrick was a screenwriter in Hollywood before working in the music industry. She worked with Bette Midler and managed The Manhattan Transfer before moving to New York to become the Managing Director of Gramavision Records, promoting jazz, blues and eclectic classical music. Her first husband was a famous lead guitarist of a '60s rock n' roll band, THE GRASS ROOTS. Seven years after her divorce she met her current husband of 33 years, a drummer and multiple myeloma cancer survivor. Infused with heart and a pitch-perfect attention to detail, THE DRUMMER'S WIDOW will change the way you look at life, love, and everything in between.FitzPatrick is also the author of KATHERINE MANSFIELD an historical novel of the famous writer's life (1888-1923). The only writer Virginia Woolf was ever jealous of.When not working on the sequel to THE DRUMMER'S WIDOW, FitzPatrick is working on her memoir, SHA LA LA, LIVE FOR TODAY about growing up in Hollywood, marrying and divorcing a rock star, and becoming a single mother in need of a paycheck. She divides her time between southern France and Carmel Valley, California where she wrote THE DRUMMER'S WIDOW.Visit her website, http://www. joannafitzpatrick.com, where she talks about summers spent in a remote village in southern France, and how that experience gave her the courage to move from Manhattan to the rural mountains above Carmel Valley, California.