Craig L. DeLue
Stories about how people understand themselves, and what it costs to keep going.
Novels, memoir, a screenplay, and the lyrics that became Saber Jets. The books live here. The songs live at SaberJets.com.
Featured book
The Hidden Heartache
Sacramento, 1965. A gentle father ties his three-year-old son to a rollaway bed on vacation — not out of cruelty, but because it is the only way to keep him safe through the night. Craig L. DeLue was a boy no one could contain. The verdict of the era was unanimous: bad child, worse parents. His mother refused to accept it.
This is a memoir of severe ADHD before the world had a name for it, and an honest field report for every parent still searching for their own answer.
Also on the shelf
Other works
Brian Nine
A teenage genius and his fearless friend are thrown across an interstellar corridor. The lesson waiting on the other side: you can’t live if you can’t die.
View the novel ScreenplayBetween Friends
Two lifelong best friends join a discreet dating site and arrange a blind rendezvous — with each other.
View the screenplay NonfictionSong Book I
Ten original songs, the lyrics, and the stories behind them. The written companion to the first Saber Jets songbook.
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Songs and songbooks
The music lives at SaberJets.com
Saber Jets is a lyric-driven virtual band. Craig writes the words and shapes the stories; the songs themselves — and the full lyric archive — are on the band site. Song Book I, the written companion, is out now.