Writer's Blog
Why I love the Public Library
ALL SIX COPIES ARE IN USE! Thanks to my readers ~~ As a writer and reader, I depend…
September 3, 2021
- Highlights, Writer's Blog
Authors Answer Personal Questions!
I love reading about writers’ inspirations. When asked about mine, I dredged up memories I thought had disappeared forever.…
September 3, 2021 - Highlights, Writer's Blog
“LIBERATA” is coming May 2022 ~ (Italian Love Cake in translation)
Éditions Anne Carrière will publish my novel ITALIAN LOVE CAKE, in French, Spring 2022, in print and audiobook. When Éditions…
August 7, 2021 - Writer's Blog
A Lasting Gift: Remembering My Friend Kim Chernin
https://lithub.com/a-lasting-gift-remembering-my-friend-kim-chernin/ A Lasting Gift: Remembering My Friend Kim Chernin
May 7, 2021 - Writer's Blog
Glamour in the Pines
The old Slape mansion (in need of a refurb) on the lake in my New Jersey hometown, was the…
March 18, 2021 - Writer's Blog
Glamour in the Pines
Heading to a wedding. From left: my grandmother, Anna Renzi, Aunt Helen, and Mom, all in white. Who said…
February 25, 2021 - Writer's Blog
In the Shadow of Vesuvius
As the story goes, my Neapolitan great grandfather, Carmine Rodio, was bullied mercilessly at school, and soon became a…
February 16, 2021 - Writer's Blog
Novel Inspiration
Writing ITALIAN LOVE CAKE, I felt compelled to recreate the life of an Italian-American woman in the 1930s. Often…
February 15, 2021 - Beautiful Italians, Writer's Blog
All Things ITALIAN, plus Clothes
Why I love clothes… Clothes “emote” and boy, so do Italians. Gaga’s National Anthem was a departure at the…
January 21, 2021 - Writer's Blog
RIP Kim Chernin, novelist, memoirist, poet
For lovers of memoir, there is no better than In My Mother’s House (1983), by the glorious Kim Chernin, who…
January 3, 2021
