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Looking for “love”? You’ll find it in an exclusive anthology of romantic poetry and novel excerpts from authors across the genres. Turn the pages of ALL ABOUT LOVE—a Valentine’s Day Special Issue Magazine. Concept, design, and cover by Erika M Szabo—author, artist, graphic designer at Golden Box Books Publishing, where you’ll find this collection:


*Read and enjoy poetry and novel excerpts contributed by each author. Click and enter to open your heart to the possibilities:

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My author contribution is from Contemporary Women’s Fiction, 'An Enlightening Quiche.'

On the subject of LOVE in this week’s blog, I couldn’t resist sharing two of my favorite quotes from my all-time favorite book and film about doomed romance:

'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë – “My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”

'Casablanca' – “Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.”

Besides the invitation to read our romantic excerpts in ALL ABOUT LOVE, which hopefully will strike your fancy to acquire the book(s) from whence love springs eternal—comment by pasting your own favorite “love” quote from book or film.

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An Indie author who primarily writes in the genre of Contemporary Women’s fiction with an emphasis on fabricating “lit with grit,” the setting is just as important to me as creating fully-fleshed characters.

My author signature is that of incorporating my native state of Rhode Island as it fits into the parameters of my story via historic events, geographic entities, and regional culture. I’m fond of blurring the lines of demarcation between fact and fiction.

From 'Underlying Notes' (First Printing – 2007; Second Printing – 2009) regarding Artie Dufresne, my reporter for a local news station—there’s a fine line between fact and fiction:

Though the Pulitzer Prize thus far eluded gumshoe, he deserved recognition for denting the surface of corruption in the Ocean State. In the wake of the tragic Station nightclub fire of ’03 in West Warwick, Artie turned up the heat on club owners whose establishments were not in compliance with sprinkler and fire alarm provisions of the state fire codes. He cited several landlords in violation of the lead paint law. A prominent hotel in the capital city earned free publicity after Artie exposed its infestation with bed bugs…

You get the point!

From 'An Enlightening Quiche' (2016) which features an impoverished mill, one of my protagonists—historian, Lindsay Metcalfe, straddles the line between fact and fiction:

The township of Beauchemins, located along the Blackstone River, proved ideal for the development of industrial activity. Descendants of Alphonse Beauchemins who inherited large tracts of land which included water privileges, collectively sold their parcels in 1892 to a partnership who erected a mill by Beauchemins Falls for the purpose of manufacturing travel accessories, aptly named American Voyager Luggage Co., 1893. The construction of the Blackstone Canal and the advent of rail transportation spurred productivity to such an extent the mill required additional workers. An influx of primarily French-Canadians staffed the mill and took up residence in the newly completed brick village.


*Ever since I watched 'On the Waterfront' during my adolescence, nothing short of “realism” will suffice for books I read, or those I write: lit with grit!

The Naked Truth

An Indie author whose primary genre is Contemporary Women’s Fiction which I classify as “lit with grit,” I aspire to the treatise on the subject of mimesis cited in Aristotle’s Poetics. Simply put, human beings feel an urge to create literature that reflects and represents reality: Art imitates life.

Without elaborating on the story elements of character, plot, setting or dialogue as they pertain to art imitating life in my novels—I’m going to get “graphic”—as in autobio-graphic-al.

Graphic Details alluding to my fragrance obsession:

From 'Underlying Notes' (2008):

Carla: I don’t consider myself an addict any more than someone who fancies himself or herself a collector of fine art, wine, rare books, antiques, stamps, or comics. I view this pursuit as a noble enterprise to elevate my olfactory senses, satisfy momentary whims, relive memories, restore tranquility, or boost flagging energy. Above all, fragrance completes me.

Graphic Details incorporating the antiquated methods of bookbinding based on my college summer employment at a factory:

From 'An Enlightening Quiche' (2016):

Augusta: The antiquated method known as “folding” sustains the company’s longevity through the production and proliferation of leaflets whereby the folder creases each printed sheet into a trifold. Or, creases a printed sheet down the middle to create a booklet page called a “signature.” At the completion of a run, the signatures are arranged sequentially by the stitchers who feed the saddle-stitcher by piling up signatures until they’ve assembled a stapled booklet at the end of the mechanized cable line. The saddle-stitcher, by any other name, is Brulé Bookbinding’s Trojan workhorse!

Life, in all of its graphic glory, exposing the naked truth, enriches our artistic endeavors.

*What autobiographical details have you incorporated in the art from of writing?