Television is a form of mass theater that is sent invisibly into homes and viewed on an object that looks something like a window and is hung on a wall; whilst Twitter is best characterized to you I think as appearing on interactive television we call “the internet” and it much resembles the graffiti one sees scrawled by angry mobs anonymously on walls in Paris and in Rome. … More “Hello to you in 1801”
A mere seven years ago, in early 2012, most of you had never heard of me and I knew of almost NONE of you (who did not know me already in real life). … More Twenty Years On
Don’t groan. I know you find that all rather obscure history stuff. But I find it fascinating, okay.
And you never know when you might find it useful knowledge…
… More A Plaque On The Wall… For A Writer
I thought once again about how learning history is, yes, about broadly knowing “big events”; but more important is drilling down to contextualize them and seeking better to understand those lives lived before ours. … More “What is happening at home?”
My mother never knew any of my books even existed because I was certain she would have been unhappy with them; I didn’t see the point of creating trouble and my uncle had agreed with me on that… … More After The Conclusion: “Maya” And Others
I admit I adore some of those “who” I write, and my hope is that over the course of a book that a reader comes to do so as well. … More The Ongoing “Discoveries”
How DO I write? This way: I write cover to cover in a style that I enjoy reading… … More How “Should” I Write?
Sometimes I write a comment and afterwards I think… that should not be “buried” among other comments. … More At The End Of The Day
My cousin in New Jersey, prompted I gather from all of our exchanges about her daughter’s writings, emailed me that she had the other day bought ALL of my novels. … More Into The Secret Diary
R. J. Nello 