Category: Fiction and Poetry
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Dark Vampires, Twists, and a Heart-Breaking Love Story
TTC Books and More has reviewed Beside the Darker Shore, a vampire thriller and mm love story. “…oh wow! This is a fabulous vampire story. You have the darkness, they are evil, yet you can’t help fall for them. I was even rooting for Arturo to find what he was searching for . . .…
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When a Vampire Interrupts an Interview
Love Bytes Reviews posted an interview on my newly released novel Beside the Darker Shore. When asked to speak about my favorite character, the vampire Arturo de Rosa gladly took over. Read the Love Bytes Reviews Interview here! Available in ebook and print on Amazon and most online retailers. Universal Buy Link. Beside the Darker…
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Five-Star Review for Vampire Novel
The Paranormal Romance Guild gives a five-star review to Beside the Darker Shore, a vampire novel about love and lust, duty and responsibility, and what it means to be fallibly human. “The characters were wonderful, there were secrets, lies, betrayal and surprises. Reading this book was a view of what happens to an honest and…
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The Risks of Love: To Be or Not to Be a Vampire
Five-star-reviewed vampire novel explores the risks of love. What would you give to have all you desire? Beside the Darker Shore What might the ethical Governor David Gedden give up for one man’s exquisite beauty? It’s terrifying to consider when the man is a destructive blood prostitute and David is responsible for the state’s peaceful…
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Pause
Pause By Patricia J. Esposito What is there of your black earth, your white sun above the ferns and mango where he, brown and young, works for supper, what of his hot wax dripping, leaves dipped in streams to wrap the candles taking form, the humid road where he carts them along, what in the…
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Five-Star Review for Vampire Novel
Tom Olbert gives a five-star-review to the vampire novel Beside the Darker Shore. “Esposito has a vivid and delicious power of imagery reminiscent of Ray Bradbury; every dewdrop sliding off every blade of grass and the crackle of every autumn leaf resonates in a narrative that flows like sweet, dark wine. The story takes us from…
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Five-star review for vampire novel
Five-star review of Beside the Darker Shore Excerpt: “Beside the Darker Shore is different. It is not your usual vampire tale. There is no sex in the book, per se, but it is one of the most powerfully sensual books I have read. When humans offer their blood to vampires, the eroticism of the bloodletting has…
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Truth and Beauty, Beauty and Truth
What Makes Beauty? The ten most beautiful women. The ten most beautiful men. We jump to leaf through the lists, knowing that, amid the ten, there might be one on which we agree. Oh, the others might be appealing, might have features we appreciate, but are they the epitome of beauty? Sometimes only one, sometimes…
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In a Present Space and Time
We daydream when we’re driving, right, in that quiet space and time? Oh, the radio might be playing, and sometimes a song draws us in. Or sometimes the music is just a rhythm in the background of our thoughts. It’s a bit of space in the day when we’re not doing work and chores, attending…
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Vampire Novel Wins Reviewer’s Choice Award
I was very happy to hear that my vampire novel was chosen as Reviewer’s Choice for December at Two Lips Reviews, where the reviewer had this to say: “Beside the Darker Shore is different. It is not your usual vampire tale. There is no sex in the book, per se, but it is one of the…
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Does Beauty Make Us Vulnerable?
Do beauty and truth leave people vulnerable? Truth As Exposure The question of vulnerability came up in a story discussion once. Being vulnerable to truth I understood. We often have to face things in others, in life, in ourselves that are scary, that leave us open to having to trust or to move on, to…
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The Magic of Brothers
When I was a kid growing up on a dead-end street in Hillside, factories at the top, factories at the bottom, all playing fields to us, we had an ice-cream man who served soft ice cream along with the Good Humor bars. The most expensive item on the truck was a chocolate shake. The block…
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And the Character Says, Remember Me?
I woke this morning thinking about favorite fictional characters, whether in books or movies or TV or any other media. The characters that first popped into mind for me ranged from crushes to heroes to soulmates. I’m beginning my list, as they first came to mind, and might keep adding if I remember more. I’d…
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The Power of Image
Imagine Gandalf a minute. What do you see? The first image that pops in my mind is the pointed gray hat. Not any gray wizard’s hat, but a softened hat, slightly bent, worn at the edges, a sense of not only history in him but comfort, no need for embellishments or flash. A true hat,…
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Meet Arturo de Rosa, Vampire
Arturo de Rosa was born in the year 965, Cordoba, Spain. He currently resides in Potes, Spain, but is visiting Boston on the urging of his human blood prostitute, Stephen. In this scene he’s walking the street of the vampire community’s leader, envisioning Alec Marshall, whom he knew in those early years in Cordoba. Excerpt:…
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Using Reversals to Refresh a Story
Sometimes a story or a scene in a novel just isn’t working. Yet we can’t pin down why. Our brain, trained in the dos and don’ts of writing, can’t come up with a solution. That’s often when it helps to begin the scene over, write it fresh. But author Stuart Spencer, in The Playwright’s Guidebook,…