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J.D. Cortese

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J.D. Cortese is a scientist and educator by training, and a writer out of a passion for communication. He has written regularly for a widely-read scientific newspaper—The Scientist—and served as at-large editor for educational magazines and large publishing houses. Winner of awards for both science and teaching, he has received also the prestigious annual award of The Writers’ Workshop of Asheville for literary fiction.

After extensively pinning a world map, he and his itinerant wife have found a home in North Carolina’s Durham. His two children remain closer to New York, a city he misses as much as Buenos Aires, Shanghai, and Paris. All these places keep appearing in the dream worlds of his stories, as much in the now as in distant futures.
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J.D. Cortese My upcoming book has been with me for years and it had not one but two beginnings in my own life. One day in early 1978, I was in Buenos Aires and cro…moreMy upcoming book has been with me for years and it had not one but two beginnings in my own life. One day in early 1978, I was in Buenos Aires and crossing the downtown avenue that faces the Argentine National Congress, when I was almost run over by a light-blue Ford Falcon—not unlike those in this novel—that carried secret police with their guns out the windows and pointing to the streets. A few months later I would be there again, in that same corner, this time celebrating the country’s victory in the Soccer World Cup.

I have always wanted to come back to that insane moment of extremes and change something—anything—to avoid all the pain that military dictatorship inflicted on innocent Argentines. Over the years, and even from abroad, the story kept growing. While working on another book, I found out about the two meteorites— and yes, all the news and stories mentioned in the book about two, and then maybe one, meteorites hitting a mountain near Argentina just before the World Cup are not fiction. This fantastic event slowly added to the tale’s layers of time travel, beyond my original plan of writing a romantic Young Adult novel.

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ALL MY STORIES ARE ABOUT TIME

,What if we are not the result of a linear past? ,Are both our future and past fixed?One way or another, I find myself picking a pen (or pencil) and writing about time. And make drawings connected with time, some of which would end up being plans for new writing.I have subtitled my recent novel, ,Fences of The Light, as “A novel about time.” That came to be because time isn’t in the main title, an Read more of this blog post »
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