Diane Gaston: A Road Story?

I just added a new post to the "Chatting with" series on "Rosa is for Romance".

Diane Gaston: A Road Story?

"Ciao, Everyone

I am thrilled to be a guest on Rosa is for Romance. About ten years ago, shortly after I started writing, I visited Rome and Venice and I wanted to buy my writing friends Italian Romance novels as souvenirs. I looked in every bookstore I passed and I had almost given up when I found them at a newsstand at the train station. Little did I know that years later on those same newsstands would be selling The Mysterious Miss M, The Wagering Widow, A Reputable Rake, and Innocence and Impropriety. And soon The Vanishing Viscountess, I hope.

My husband is half-Italian and grew up close to his Italian grandparents. The family names are Pannuto and Cefola, both from Northern Italy. My mother in law, the first to be born in the USA, gets a big kick out of seeing my books in Italian. The family even has an Italian saint, Saint Gerardo, as an ancestor. One of my most prized possessions is a china cabinet that my husband´s great-grandmother brought over from Italy. It still has most of the original glass. My mother-in-law has most of the other Italian family treasures, some beautiful items that I am sure would look very familiar to you Italian readers. On my website you can see my husband in my wedding photo. He looks very Italian and that is good, because I think Italian men are handsome.

I began writing Romance because it was what I most loved to read. I´m glad that you all love Romance too. There is nothing like a love story with a happy ending!

I´m happy to be visiting with you.

Diane"

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/17854681/

Diane Gaston: A Road Story?

I just added a new post to the "Chatting with" series on "Rosa is for Romance".

Diane Gaston: A Road Story?

"Ciao, Everyone

I am thrilled to be a guest on Rosa is for Romance. About ten years ago, shortly after I started writing, I visited Rome and Venice and I wanted to buy my writing friends Italian Romance novels as souvenirs. I looked in every bookstore I passed and I had almost given up when I found them at a newsstand at the train station. Little did I know that years later on those same newsstands would be selling The Mysterious Miss M, The Wagering Widow, A Reputable Rake, and Innocence and Impropriety. And soon The Vanishing Viscountess, I hope.

My husband is half-Italian and grew up close to his Italian grandparents. The family names are Pannuto and Cefola, both from Northern Italy. My mother in law, the first to be born in the USA, gets a big kick out of seeing my books in Italian. The family even has an Italian saint, Saint Gerardo, as an ancestor. One of my most prized possessions is a china cabinet that my husband´s great-grandmother brought over from Italy. It still has most of the original glass. My mother-in-law has most of the other Italian family treasures, some beautiful items that I am sure would look very familiar to you Italian readers. On my website you can see my husband in my wedding photo. He looks very Italian and that is good, because I think Italian men are handsome.

I began writing Romance because it was what I most loved to read. I´m glad that you all love Romance too. There is nothing like a love story with a happy ending!

I´m happy to be visiting with you.

Diane"

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/17854681/

Moonlight Sonata For Two by Helen Louise Caroll

In a futurist world, centuries ahead than today, Sinjen is a pianist, a man who has made his fortune keeping alive the works of so many composers otherwise forgotten by the world. But even if he loves the music, he is tired of being always in front of the public and so he chooses to retire. On his last performance he meets Vincent, a mysterious man who lures him: Vincent is handsome and cultured, he seems to know so much of the past and Sinjen can't explain the force that draws him.

The story is very short, less than 40 pages, but mix well futuristic and paranormal elements. Both Sinjen than Vincent have artificial wings, an expensive accessories that in this futuristic world you can buy like you would with a new car or similar. Dark and light, Sinjen with white fluffy wings and Vincent with dark ones, but as contrast, Vincent as an angelical face and instead Sinjen is the brooding one.

The story spans only for a night, a shared dinner and a shocking revelation, something Vincent believes will draw Sinjen apart, and instead he doesn't realized that, in this future world, his secret is no more important: everything is changed, and maybe he lives too much in the past.

As in the previous book by Helen Louise Caroll, the story ends when I would like very much too see it continues. She is very good in creating interesting characters, with a good background that is a promising basis for a longer novel, but she chooses to limit it to a short story. So I can't say very much on it, rather than I hope to read in the future something longer by her.

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/MoonlightSonata.html

Amazon Kindle: Moonlight Sonata For Two
Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC (December 30, 2008)

Reading List: http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle

Moonlight Sonata For Two by Helen Louise Caroll

In a futurist world, centuries ahead than today, Sinjen is a pianist, a man who has made his fortune keeping alive the works of so many composers otherwise forgotten by the world. But even if he loves the music, he is tired of being always in front of the public and so he chooses to retire. On his last performance he meets Vincent, a mysterious man who lures him: Vincent is handsome and cultured, he seems to know so much of the past and Sinjen can't explain the force that draws him.

The story is very short, less than 40 pages, but mix well futuristic and paranormal elements. Both Sinjen than Vincent have artificial wings, an expensive accessories that in this futuristic world you can buy like you would with a new car or similar. Dark and light, Sinjen with white fluffy wings and Vincent with dark ones, but as contrast, Vincent as an angelical face and instead Sinjen is the brooding one.

The story spans only for a night, a shared dinner and a shocking revelation, something Vincent believes will draw Sinjen apart, and instead he doesn't realized that, in this future world, his secret is no more important: everything is changed, and maybe he lives too much in the past.

As in the previous book by Helen Louise Caroll, the story ends when I would like very much too see it continues. She is very good in creating interesting characters, with a good background that is a promising basis for a longer novel, but she chooses to limit it to a short story. So I can't say very much on it, rather than I hope to read in the future something longer by her.

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/MoonlightSonata.html

Amazon Kindle: Moonlight Sonata For Two

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle