by ladipaolo | Fri Feb 2024 | My Blog (c )
This is the third of Kazuo Ishiguro’s books I’ve read, and it left me with a blank space, whereas Klara and the Sun as well as The Remains of the Day both troubled me and filled me with indescribable sensations that still linger in me and reignite, in a flash, just...
by ladipaolo | Sat Nov 2023 | My Blog (c )
I am excited to reveal a new illustration I commissioned for Darkness Gains (and yes, it was after the book’s initial publication, so I am planning to update the paperback and Kindle versions with this new image). The illustration shows High Cleric Galadrin...
by ladipaolo | Fri Jan 2021 | My Blog (c )
How to provide a year-end update that will be satisfying to you, my readers, as well as to me? I am not sure, as I do not know you (except those of you who are also friends or family). At first, I thought, “Hmm, I don’t want to give a review of what I...
by ladipaolo | Tue Jan 2020 | My Blog (c )
You may wonder, sometimes, how an independent author creates their works. Do they do it all on their own? And if not, where do they find the help to help them bring their stories to life? If you’ve been following me for a while, you probably know some of the answers...
by ladipaolo | Mon Aug 2019 | My Blog (c )
Lusk’s Song (Insanity) was born as a single quatrain in Forebodings, where Lusk Methrim sang it during the testing of his healing abilities by the Lux Baiulae. Adam R. Watson so loved to sing those four lines for the audiobook that he asked if I would finish the...
