After our “road trip” odyssey, we’re settled in here for the week in Fernandina Beach. My Dad had been to Florida only once before, back in 1985, to settle my late grandmother’s estate (after she had died in Hudson, near Tampa). Now here for our holiday, he is thoroughly enjoying himself – which was our … More India: Something Huge Will Be Missing If I Ever Get There
Please pardon a very serious post, but I wish to address this in one “summation” and be done with it. You may know by now that one Amanda Knox of Seattle, Washington, has had a successful appeal in Italy’s highest court. Her murder conviction has been quashed. As no further appeal by the prosecution is … More An American Embarrassment Is “Concluded” Too
Hi from Florence, South Carolina this Palm Sunday. 🙂 We had twelve hours on the road yesterday. We had expected 10. The biggest trouble we encountered below Pennsylvania driving south on I-95 was outside of Washington, D.C. That’s been the case before, but this was the worst experience.
My Dad having now fully recovered from his heart failure back in August, and the implant surgery in December, we felt that after the tough, cold winter he and my Mum had spent in Pennsylvania, that they needed a holiday.
I hadn’t “planned” it this way, but as I began to write Passports, I found myself drawn to exploring those who don’t really have “intimate” sibling relationships. My younger main characters tend to be “only children,” have much older siblings, or are essentially estranged from them. In many ways, their friends come to serve as … More Sneak Peek: The Khoury Sisters
There seems to be an app for everything. But here’s one I’ve missed. Evidently it’s causing quite the stir in “authoring circles”: In assailing it, author Joanne Harris is quoted in the UK Independent newspaper even invoking so-called ISIS and its wholesale destruction of Sumerian antiquities: “No permission is sought, or granted,” Harris wrote. “There … More What “Clean Reader” Really Represents (To Me)
Hello once more! This is a ridiculously early post, New York time. It’s before 5:30 am. Ugh! It’s also called “jet lag.” Yes, yes, it’s great to be back in the Catskills for a bit: I wrote most of two novels here. Now you see why! 😉
A “sneak peek” into another chapter I finished drafting recently in Distances. James’s father, who runs the family’s Long Island construction company, has just come home from work. He found James’s mother, Joanne, sitting at the kitchen table. Joanne had spoken to James in Paris hours before. She’d rung their son at about two o’clock … More Sneak Peek: “A girl in the apartment”
Commenting on my “Marathon Man” post in which I’d shared an extended look at the rough draft of a scene, Naseer wrote: Interesting to note how Americans are when they meet each other in foreign climes, be it Paris or Kathmandu (Said with affection) Your writing adds a lot of colour. I get impression colour … More In So Many Words
R. J. Nello 