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From December 23 to 27, the Kindle edition of Spell of Blindness will be available on Amazon for free. If you are unsure about purchasing it, this is a good opportunity to try it and see what it is all…
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Spell of Blindness is now available on Amazon
A day early! I know! I’m good with deadlines. You can find the Kindle edition of my book on Amazon here. And here is the book’s Goodreads page! Please forgive the too-many exclamation points. These are exciting times for me!…
My book news
This poor blog has been for so long neglected that I am feeling almost afraid to write now. What will I say? My first book, Spell of Blindness, is finished and will be released soon in e-book format. The title…
Mark of the Loon, by Molly Greene
Look at this beautiful cover. Isn’t it great? Old photographs, ancient keys, I had to read this story. I must confess that the cover was one of the first things that attracted me. What was most enjoyable for me in…
The Gillyflower, by Elizabeth Pulford
I don’t know what made me select this book. It might have been the promise of a good story involving past lives. Probably. Well, it was a good choice that is why I am trying to retrace my steps so…
Write from the Heart, by Heather Hummel
This was a very pleasant read. The story is heartfelt and full of emotion. At least that’s how it seemed to me, and part of the reason might be that this is a book about first time novelists and their…
You want to be taken seriously as a writer? Then be(have like) a man!
This article published on the website of the National Book Critics Circle is so disturbing that I have a hard time rereading it even if it was just to order my thoughts for a rebuttal. It makes me very upset and while…
Latest news (Ultima ora) by Ion Minulescu
The circus . . . A mundane incident– One acrobat, A deadly jump, And . . . The acrobat did not wake up . . . The orchestra brasses all stopped, The clowns in the arena screamed . . .…
To My Critics (Criticilor mei), by Mihai Eminescu
I published in WRITTEN a translation of Mihai Eminescu’s “Criticilor mei” (“To my critics). It is very intimidating to translate Eminescu. He’s a god of Romanian literature and his poetry technique is so perfect that a translation can only be…