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For HUMOR
BRONZE MEDAL / Foreward Review Indiefab Book of the Year / 2014

A Novel for Adults

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Other Books

By Russ Woody

 
Son of a Bitch 
Saga of a Family

 

​                obert has pretty much managed to avoid his family ever since he finished college. But when one of his parents dies, he finds himself being sucked back into the dark abyss that is his family. He remains a victim of their particular insanity, until he falls in love with a woman who has a story of her own, and a different perspective.  Then he realizes he has options. 

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For HUMOR

BRONZE MEDAL WINNER / eLit Book Awards / 2014

 

TWT

A Memoir

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                 hen he was diagnosed with ALS,  Woody's life was coming to a close — but it was also just beginning. 

 

After he moved to Los Angeles a few blocks from his son and his son's family, his life changed dramatically: He became friends Russ's friends, many of whom are gay — an entirely new experience for him.  He became buddies with Ted Danson, spent Thanksgiving with Marsha Mason, had dinner with Shirley MacLaine, became an extra on J.A.G. and was the subject of an episode of Becker. But, most important, he was able to spend time with his two young grandsons, Henry and Joe. This book was written for them. 

 
TUESDAYS WITH TED
 
An uplifting, heartbreaking, occasionally funny story about an old man with ALS, a sitcom, its star and just enough time for a son to say goodbye. 

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An episode of
Becker was based on 
WOODY and ALS

Ted Danson talks about Woody. 
The story behind 

Tuesdays with Ted

(2 Minutes)

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All the kids who considered him their Grampa

Hattie Winston

Woody in New Mexico with Marsha Mason 

And Shirley MacLaine

The Wheel of 
Nuldoid
 

                   nspired by The Hobbit, The Wheel of Nuldoid is a fantasy about three humans who must travel to a strange spherical city at the center of the earth called Nuldoid. There a society of short, quarrelsome creatures live and operate the failing machinery that rotates the earth.

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Awarded

For HUMOR

SILVER MEDAL WINNER / Benjamine Franklin Awards / 2010

For FANTASY

BRONZE MEDAL WINNER / Independent Publishers Book Awards / 2010

For YOUNG ADULT FICTION

FINALIST / Foreward Magazine Book of the Year / 2010

Nuldoid

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