The Fiddler: artwork that inspired the family saga, “The Bird that Sang in Color”

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I chose to use this image as the cover of my book because I believed that more than any other picture in the sketchbook, it most closely captured the true essence of my brother. He was a simple person, but not in the sense that he wasn’t

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Olive Branches Don’t Grow on Trees: The First of the Greco Family Books

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Drawing on her own background, Grace Mattioli has created a warring but loveable Italian-American family, who just can’t seem to get along. While they all have their individual problems, youngest daughter, Silvia Greco, hopes that she can bring

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Tips for Writing Fiction: The Use of Humor in Serious Fiction

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All of my favorite writers have one thing in common: Their use of humor.  Flannery O’Connor’s use of black humor adds greatly to adds to the characterization and the setting in her stories. Another one of my writers is Nathanael West

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