My latest romantic suspense novel, The Lair, will be released June 16th. It’s set in Verona, Italy, in the glamorous world of elite hospitality. Several of the characters, including the heroine, are co-owners of a five-star luxury hotel company that caters to the world’s richest clientele. Yet the crime at the heart of the story is anything but high class. I’m talking about human trafficking, which is a fancy term for modern-day slavery for the purposes of forced sex or labor. My ... VIEW POST
Get Your Alligator On … and Put Your Readers on Edge
Our annual summer bocce league is almost underway. Over two dozen teams, made up of four players each (plus alternates), meet at a local park to play bocce every Wednesday evening. Over the course of three months we battle it out to see who will be crowned the League champions and get to take home the so-cheesy-they’re-cool gold medals. It’s tons of fun. This year, with a slightly different group of team members, we decided a new team name was in order. Normally teams call themselves some ... VIEW POST
How Reliable are Memories?
I remember you ... sort of The past is a province in a fairy tale, suspended in the midst of pain, beauty and freedom. It is a universe of mirrors and an infinitely arbitrary, yet exciting, itinerary of metamorphosis. Journalist Cesare ... VIEW POST
The Genre of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Everybody wants to know what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and because they do, it’s being covered nonstop by the news media. Now, even the coverage itself is becoming news. As talking heads ruminate over what might have happened to the ill-fated aircraft, the theories grow more and more surreal, from burning tires to stowaways to circumstances straight out of a “Twilight Zone” episode. One pundit (can’t remember which channel) was asked recently why people are so ... VIEW POST
