McNeal mesmerizes with new novel

FALLBROOK – Acclaimed author Tom McNeal, of Fallbrook and Coronado, will read from his new novel, “To Be Sung Underwater,” at the Wednesday, Sept. 14 Fallbrook’s Writers Read. The reading begins at 6 p.m. with open mic for poetry and prose at the Café des Artistes, 103 S. Main.

McNeal set his first adult novel“Goodnight, Nebraska,” in the town where he spent summers as a child. Then, with his wife Laura McNeal, he wrote four very well received young adult novels,“Crooked,” “Zipped,” “Crushed”and“The Decoding of Lana Morris.”

“To Be Sung Underwater,” a love story unlike any other, was rel...