Ask the Author: Robert Masello
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Robert Masello
I was inspired, many years ago really, by reading the unfinished autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. I loved that book, and decided to take up the challenge and finish it myself. It just took me a few decades to get around to it. Thanks for reading the book! You might also enjoy my new one, "The Night Crossing" -- another mix of history and mystery.
Robert Masello
B&N can order it for you, but the best way is simply to order it through Amazon. An independent bookstore can also order it. Thanks so much for your interest and determination! (The hardcover is beautiful, btw, and check out the cover BENEATH the removable jacket. Very classy. (I just noticed this question was posted weeks ago. Please forgive me for the delay in responding.)
Robert Masello
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Robert Masello
Please forgive me if I never got around to answering this question. I never check up on these sites. I'm a dinosaur. Anyway, thanks for your comment on the Einstein book -- and that would have been a very god idea -- but I've moved on to other stories and characters. "The Jekyll Revelation" came out over a year ago, and "The Night Crossing" comes out in September - both with entirely new casts of characters. I like creating new stuff from scratch.
Robert Masello
I wish I could tell you where I first heard it. I know I didn't read it. I used to write a lot of travel articles, and I think it was one of my fellow travel writers, a female, who first used it. Sorry to be of so little help. Its origins may now be lost in the mists of history.
Robert Masello
That's a good question -- right at this second, I am waiting to hear back from my editor, who received the revised draft of my upcoming novel about a week ago. In a writer's life, this is a tricky time - you want to keep working, but you don't quite know on what. I know I'll hear back in another week or two (at most) about the current manuscript, so I'm reluctant to start in on something altogether new that I would then have to drop when the editor gets back to me with her next round of notes. Unlike some writers, I'm incapable of keeping more than one big idea in my head at one time. I have to focus entirely on one subject, which used to drive my wife (oops, ex-wife) crazy. In a novelist, monomania isn't such a bad thing.
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