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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

Silvia moves through the world like a Peanut’s character dancing.  Frank moves from one side of the kitchen to the other like he is keeping beat to a Polka song.  Cosmo moves with a bounce in his step, his head bopping back and forth like a

The summer of my 5th year, my family and I would take my mom’s big gold Cadillac and head down the shore.  We would all huddle under the big yellow and green striped umbrella for hours while salty wet breezes cooled our overheated inland bodies.

I named this posting after the wonderful Simon and Garfunkel song.  My novel begins and ends in silence. This is a literary technique, sometimes referred to as Bookends or Framing Device, that I have always admired and wanted to use in my novel.

Avoiding stereotypes is key in creating dimensional characters. Although the characters in my Greco Family Trilogy books are Italian-American and from New Jersey, they are much different than the cast of Jersey Shore or The Sopranos. Like many