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April 30, 2018
April 5, 2018
New Giveaway for From the Midst of Wickedness
A new Giveaway for five autographed copies of From the Midst of Wickedness runs from April 5th to May 5th.
Thanks for your support!
Thanks for your support!
March 2, 2018
To My Goodreads Friends and Followers
Enjoy!
A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
A question mark walks into a bar?
A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
A synonym strolls into a tavern.
At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
A dyslexic walks into a bra.
A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television getting drunk and smoking cigars.
A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.
A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
A question mark walks into a bar?
A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
A synonym strolls into a tavern.
At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
A dyslexic walks into a bra.
A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television getting drunk and smoking cigars.
A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.
February 10, 2018
New Giveaway for Danced By the Light of the Moon
A new Giveaway has been launched for my first novel, Danced By the Light of the Moon, the story of a group of 30 year olds on a Caribbean charter sailing vacation who are caught on a perilous journey when sea, storm, derelict boats, a shady charter company and a tour leader who deserts them conspire to do them in.
Hope you enter the Giveaway and may you enjoy this adventure!
Nelson
Hope you enter the Giveaway and may you enjoy this adventure!
Nelson
January 30, 2018
You're Invited!
Book Signing and Reception.
5pm March 22nd
Vero Beach Book Center
Vero Beach, Florida
5pm March 22nd
Vero Beach Book Center
Vero Beach, Florida
January 25, 2018
New Giveaway for From the Midst of Wickedness
Please follow and let others know of the new Giveaway for From the Midst of Wickedness which begins on January 28th through February 28th.
Thanks so much for your interest!
Thanks so much for your interest!
January 14, 2018
Book Club Presentation
On January 8th I was pleased and honored to share an evening with the Laurel Oak Book Club in Sarasota, Florida and engage in a lively
discussion about From the Midst of Wickedness. Thanks!
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discussion about From the Midst of Wickedness. Thanks!
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January 2, 2018
Happy New Year!
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December 23, 2017
Thanks!!!!
To everyone who entered the Goodreads Giveaway for From the Midst of Wickedness,
Thanks for your interest and support. I'm delighted to be able to provide ten new readers with the novel and hope all others will consider reading it.
My best wishes for your holidays!
Nelson Cover
Thanks for your interest and support. I'm delighted to be able to provide ten new readers with the novel and hope all others will consider reading it.
My best wishes for your holidays!
Nelson Cover
October 29, 2017
Character Development
Many of those whom I’ve talked to about From the Midst of Wickedness are most interested in character development. In particular they want to know whether any of characters are taken from people in real life.
The process is a bit more complicated than that.
Some characters are complete inventions. For instance, Jean-Claude Gilbert, Mark Berger’s Captain, is not only a complete invention but he was a also a character along with Mark Berger in my first book, Danced By the Light of the Moon. In this case, I liked Jean-Claude and Berger so much that I brought them over to FTMOW by making Berger a Board of Trustees member of the university.
On the other hand, Sessions University President, Bryan Q. Fitz-Hugh, is an amalgam of number of non-profit leaders including a dean of students, a university president, two think tank CEOs mixed in with some spices of Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey. The important thing is that Fitz-Hugh became a completely separate, integrated and unique personality and not in any way an imitation. He stands on his own.
The process is a bit more complicated than that.
Some characters are complete inventions. For instance, Jean-Claude Gilbert, Mark Berger’s Captain, is not only a complete invention but he was a also a character along with Mark Berger in my first book, Danced By the Light of the Moon. In this case, I liked Jean-Claude and Berger so much that I brought them over to FTMOW by making Berger a Board of Trustees member of the university.
On the other hand, Sessions University President, Bryan Q. Fitz-Hugh, is an amalgam of number of non-profit leaders including a dean of students, a university president, two think tank CEOs mixed in with some spices of Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey. The important thing is that Fitz-Hugh became a completely separate, integrated and unique personality and not in any way an imitation. He stands on his own.
