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...
by ladipaolo | Mon May 2019 | Science in Fiction
Foreword: You might wonder, and rightly so, why this topic is in any way related to my fiction. But it is, although in a very indirect manner. Still, the topic is most important, and because I am a biologist, I wished to discuss it when I heard about Impossible...
by ladipaolo | Thu Jun 2018 | My Blog (c )
I frequently tell one of my kids that words have power. I tell him because he tends to use words many may find objectionable, and he uses them because he thinks words are just words. But then, why use them, I ask him? Even if only to color his speech, the fact that...
