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Click it and play this QuickQuiz now and test your knowledge!The link takes you to Facebook but if you don't want to log in there, click the link on the game box here in the right top corner. It'll take you directly to the quiz which is on the www.fReado.com site with lots of giveaways, including free books, a Kindle and more.
The quiz will make you discover that some very famous people were impacted by genetic inheritance, perhaps some you never suspected like Jane Fonda or Queen Victoria.
If you're wondering why I picked heredity as a subject for the quiz, that's easy! It's something I've always been fascinated with: the issue of nature vs. nurture. Are we born as a clean slate and therefore become the product of our education and experience (nurture) or have we inherited family traits that determine who we are and how we act (nature)?
Anyone who's read my Fear of the Past Trilogy knows that's what the book is really about: the weight of heredity and whether one can shake it off and become free from the past.
We all have seen our parents or grandparents in our children. Don't you wonder sometimes who you really look like? If you look like someone in your family who was a happy, successful person, good for you! But suppose you realize you look like a family member who notoriously messed up his life, who had a tendency to love the wrong woman or sink in depression and alcoholism...or worse, committed suicide?
How would you feel then? In Fear of the Past, Tony Bellomo, a young Italo-American suffering from burnout undertakes a unique journey into self discovery: he falls in a Time Trap in Sicily (his deceased father's home) and meets the ghosts of his ancestors waiting for Judgment Day. You'd think this is a marvelous opportunity for Tony to learn more about which forebears he looks like and discover who he really is. Most of us can't go back 900 years like Tony... But this very knowledge will torment Tony in the worst possible way.
Here's the place where he found the ghosts of his ancestors roaming about: the Circolo di Conversazione, a "conversation club". It actually exists in Ragusa (but I've set it in Syracuse instead for reasons apparent to anyone reading the book). Such clubs existed all over Sicily in the 19th century; the Ragusa club is the one that inspired me to write the book...
Here it is from the outside, just down from the famous St. George Church in the centre of old Ragusa:
And inside:
With red velvet curtains, gilded mirrors and chandeliers, it's a perfect place for ghosts and a marvelous opportunity for Tony to learn about himself... but a scary one. He discovers he shares everything - both looks and emotions - with a certain Francis Leckie, an English adventurer who settled in Sicily in the 1800s (he really did exist, the town of Floridia has a street with his name).
Francis Leckie was an attractive dare-devil and an innovative entrepreneur, but alas he failed in his life: he went bankrupt and the woman he loved, the beautiful Duchess of Floridia, left him for another...
When Tony meets the Duchess (a real historical character too) she mistakes him at first for her English lover since they look so much alike. Can love work between them?
But the story unfolds on another, deeper level. Tony worries that his resemblance to the Englishman marks him out as a failure. Can he avoid making the same mistakes?
The real question is: can Tony play the cards heredity has bestowed on him in a different way? Or is he condemned to repeat the mistakes of the past?
Do you know anyone who's the prisoner of his family heredity? Are we all condemned to repeat the past or is there a way to escape it? Tony, by the last page of the last book has found his way...Find out how he did it and be prepared for surprises: this novel takes you to many unpredictable places and situations!
Available as ebooks:
Book 1 of Fear of the Past trilogy at:AmazonBarnes & NobleiBookstoreSony Store
Book 2 of Fear of the Past at:AmazonBarnes & NobleiBookstoreSony Store
Book 3 of Fear of the Past at: AmazonBarnes & NobleiBookstoreSony Store
For those who prefer their books printed, it will be available end February on Amazon (all 3 books in one volume - 520 pages)
Related articlesEpigenetics: A Turning Point in our Understanding of Heredity (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
Click it and play this QuickQuiz now and test your knowledge!The link takes you to Facebook but if you don't want to log in there, click the link on the game box here in the right top corner. It'll take you directly to the quiz which is on the www.fReado.com site with lots of giveaways, including free books, a Kindle and more.
The quiz will make you discover that some very famous people were impacted by genetic inheritance, perhaps some you never suspected like Jane Fonda or Queen Victoria.
If you're wondering why I picked heredity as a subject for the quiz, that's easy! It's something I've always been fascinated with: the issue of nature vs. nurture. Are we born as a clean slate and therefore become the product of our education and experience (nurture) or have we inherited family traits that determine who we are and how we act (nature)?
Anyone who's read my Fear of the Past Trilogy knows that's what the book is really about: the weight of heredity and whether one can shake it off and become free from the past.
We all have seen our parents or grandparents in our children. Don't you wonder sometimes who you really look like? If you look like someone in your family who was a happy, successful person, good for you! But suppose you realize you look like a family member who notoriously messed up his life, who had a tendency to love the wrong woman or sink in depression and alcoholism...or worse, committed suicide?
How would you feel then? In Fear of the Past, Tony Bellomo, a young Italo-American suffering from burnout undertakes a unique journey into self discovery: he falls in a Time Trap in Sicily (his deceased father's home) and meets the ghosts of his ancestors waiting for Judgment Day. You'd think this is a marvelous opportunity for Tony to learn more about which forebears he looks like and discover who he really is. Most of us can't go back 900 years like Tony... But this very knowledge will torment Tony in the worst possible way.
Here's the place where he found the ghosts of his ancestors roaming about: the Circolo di Conversazione, a "conversation club". It actually exists in Ragusa (but I've set it in Syracuse instead for reasons apparent to anyone reading the book). Such clubs existed all over Sicily in the 19th century; the Ragusa club is the one that inspired me to write the book...
Here it is from the outside, just down from the famous St. George Church in the centre of old Ragusa:
And inside:
With red velvet curtains, gilded mirrors and chandeliers, it's a perfect place for ghosts and a marvelous opportunity for Tony to learn about himself... but a scary one. He discovers he shares everything - both looks and emotions - with a certain Francis Leckie, an English adventurer who settled in Sicily in the 1800s (he really did exist, the town of Floridia has a street with his name).
Francis Leckie was an attractive dare-devil and an innovative entrepreneur, but alas he failed in his life: he went bankrupt and the woman he loved, the beautiful Duchess of Floridia, left him for another...
When Tony meets the Duchess (a real historical character too) she mistakes him at first for her English lover since they look so much alike. Can love work between them?
But the story unfolds on another, deeper level. Tony worries that his resemblance to the Englishman marks him out as a failure. Can he avoid making the same mistakes?
The real question is: can Tony play the cards heredity has bestowed on him in a different way? Or is he condemned to repeat the mistakes of the past?
Do you know anyone who's the prisoner of his family heredity? Are we all condemned to repeat the past or is there a way to escape it? Tony, by the last page of the last book has found his way...Find out how he did it and be prepared for surprises: this novel takes you to many unpredictable places and situations!
Available as ebooks:Book 1 of Fear of the Past trilogy at:AmazonBarnes & NobleiBookstoreSony Store
Book 2 of Fear of the Past at:AmazonBarnes & NobleiBookstoreSony Store
Book 3 of Fear of the Past at: AmazonBarnes & NobleiBookstoreSony StoreFor those who prefer their books printed, it will be available end February on Amazon (all 3 books in one volume - 520 pages)
Related articlesEpigenetics: A Turning Point in our Understanding of Heredity (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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