books – R. J. Nello

“I kiss thy hand to bid adieu…”

Where do novelists get ideas? I can’t speak for others, but I assume everyone else has their own personal and

I have been away from here for a few days, I know. I’m working on that short story. If I’m

Yesterday, we were down in London: Back now here in Hertfordshire, I thought I’d start the week addressing that dreaded

Two things to remember in historical fiction writing are these: 1) Who is telling your story? 2) What could characters

Dad was well down in northeast Pennsylvania. He’s missing Mom as always, but there is nothing any of us can

As we know, the 4th of July is about celebrating the 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence from the British Empire.

Happy U.S. Independence . . . weekend! Future U.S. president John Adams, who had persuaded the younger and largely unknown

Due to what I have seen regularly “out there,” and with my brand new Conventions, as well as my first

I can’t remember off the top of my head the last time I did one, so it must have been

It’s a rainy, windy, ugly morning here just north of London… I am in the earliest stages of writing another