The newspapers are full of interesting, thought-provoking articles. Many of these articles are no more than a few lines in length and are most often to be found, in my experience, in the local press. Some of these articles have inspired novels, for example, the case of Pietro Maso in... Read more →
Lights over Bellano
08/25/2017
08/03/2017
The importance of theme.
The theme of a novel is the heart of the story and will have a universal human appeal. Your theme must not only appeal to the reader, it should animate and inspire you if you are to spend so much time working with it. Examples of themes in my own... Read more →
07/20/2017
Truth can be better than fiction! Lights over Bellano, the Pietro Maso case and accidental bombing
Sometimes, things happen in life that makes you think: What the hell? How on earth did that happen? It was such an incident that inspired me to write the book "Lights over Bellano." The "thing that happened" in this instance was the case of Pietro Maso. In 1991, and in... Read more →
06/28/2017
Thoughts and words
Where do authors get their ideas? What inspires them to spend all that time writing a novel that, perhaps, only a few people will read? These questions – and some suggested answers – will be my subject in this blog. I’ll share the source of many of my ideas and... Read more →
