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Richard Tillotson

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Hackensack, New Jersey, The United States

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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Richard Tilloton’s first novel, “Acts of God While on Vacation,” was a National Semi-Finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and was named best Hawai‘i fiction book of the year by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He is also a playwright, screenwriter, and a former Peace Corps volunteer, a time when he built water systems and latrines for Iban longhouses in Sarawak, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. He and his wife live in Honolulu and often travel to work and volunteer in Washington D.C.

He graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and earned two Masters degrees, one in English literature from the University of Washington in Seattle and a second in Educational Communications from the University of Hawaii, where he was an East-West Center ...more

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Richard: Loved the book! Where did you get the idea for "Acts of God While on Vacation"?

Richard Tillotson The last big hurricane that rolled through Hawai‘i was hurricane Iniki. It threatened the island of Oahu and devastated the island of Kauai. Our famil…moreThe last big hurricane that rolled through Hawai‘i was hurricane Iniki. It threatened the island of Oahu and devastated the island of Kauai. Our family was living in Manoa valley on Oahu at the time. The emergency sirens went off around 4:30 in the morning, and after we had made a dash to Safeway for bottled water and covered the windows with duct tape, there wasn’t much to do except sit around and wait to see if we were going to be blown away. I was doing a lot of work with the hotels in Waikiki at that time and found myself wondering how they were going to cope. I had also been doing some reading about shamans and shamanism and how that subject related to my Peace Corps experience in Borneo. And because my wife is a university professor, I’d recently had a chance to attend an academic conference with her. As I said, there wasn’t anything else to do except sit around and think, so all those things began to come together in my mind and mix it up with each other.(less)

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“Why were things funny? Was God laughing at us? Or was laughter the dispensation of God? Maybe laughter itself was Godlike. When we laugh, we rise above pain. We rise above indignity. We even rise above incredulity. We "get it." Maybe in the way God "gets it.”
― Richard Tillotson, Acts of God While on Vacation

tags: god, laughter

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“They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a word is worth a million pictures. A billion. As many as there are people who know the word. Each has their own picture, their own meaning of it, in their heads. It's theirs. It's unique. And yet they share it with everyone else. And every time they use a word, a single word, they contribute to the creation of the soul of us all.”
― Richard Tillotson, Acts of God While on Vacation

tags: language, pictures, words

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“The mockup of the poster in Lady Gloria's London flat was the same size as the ones plastered up in tube stations, and it nearly filled the space between the heavy damask drapes and her massive stereo speakers. The poster's design featured bold, red, Helvetica type printed on a gray background of random letters and nonsense words. The message was, "Illiterate? Can't read? Call this number: 944-READ."
"I believe your contribution could be more wisely employed, Lady Gloria," Glynis Mortimer said.”
― Richard Tillotson, Acts of God While on Vacation