About the Book
“Madcap Serenade” is a wild musical coming-of-age journey about plunging into a romantic Italian adventure that’s being described as “‘Sleepless in Seattle’ by way of John Hughes!”
Eli, a precocious 16-year-old social misfit living on Long Island in August 1979, cons his way into a professional boys’ choir’s Italian and Vatican tour so he can discover his missing father’s legacy. But when he meets his dream girl, Jane, and finds himself connected to an intricate murder plot involving a legendary drug, he must decide if singing for the Pope is worth losing his family and first love.
Jane, a rebellious 16-year-old American girl, is desperate to get back in favor with her school friends after accidentally calling a narc on them. When she is sent to a Roman convent for smuggling erotic novels, she realizes she must grow up fast if she’s going to escape the nuns, solve her family’s mystery involving a mythical drug, keep clear of the authorities, and declare her love for Eli.
About the Author
Dan Kopcow's rom-com novel, "Madcap Serenade," published in July 2024 by Black Rose Writing, has already won the 2024 Firebird Book Award for Best Romantic Comedy and is a finalist for the 2024 Maxy Award in the Literary and Humor category. Kopcow's sci-fi noir detective novel, “Prior Futures,” published in December 2021 by Black Rose Writing, won a 2022 Independent Press Award for Science Fiction Distinguished Favorite and was a Science Fiction Best Thriller of 2021 Finalist at BestThriller.com. Kopcow's fiction short story collection, “Worst. Date. Ever.,” was published by Regal House Publishing in March 2020 and was named one of 2020’s top 100 novels by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). The anthology, "Thank You, Death Robot," which included his short story, The Cobbler Cherry, won an Independent Publishing Award for best science-fiction and fantasy and was voted a Chicago Tribune Top Ten Fiction book. Kopcow has had dozens of other short stories published in several magazines and anthologies.