Jul 2, 2006 | Essential Posts - Publishing
The title has given me fits, far moreso than the actual story. The original title for the first book was ‘Il Veltro.’ Italian for The Greyhound, it has several other, wonderful, connotations. Firstly, it is the title used for the hero of the prophecy in the first...
Jul 1, 2006 | Essential Posts
Not happy with how the novel was progressing, I fought halfway through a bad version before I realized I wasn’t writing the story I wanted to tell. More research, more false starts. Finally I took a deep breath and settled in to read Dante’s Divine Comedy, something I...
Jun 30, 2006 | Essential Posts - Shakespeare
The production of R&J that I directed came and went as shows do. Throughout the following year, however, I was unable to leave the idea of the origin of the feud behind. The play was done, but my research continued. I’d waded shin-deep into the history of Verona;...
Jun 28, 2006 | Books - Essential Posts - The Novel - Writing
Early in 1999 I was directing Romeo & Juliet at the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre (a great space that to my everlasting regret has since become a church). It was my fourth or fifth encounter with the play, but my first as director. Getting ready to direct Shakespeare...
Jun 27, 2006 | Books - Essential Posts - Shakespeare - The Novel
I always hated Shakespeare. They made me read him. In junior high, it was Julius Caesar. In high school, first it was Romeo & Juliet, which was cool only because we wasted a week watching the movie – the Zefferelli, not the DeCaprio version. The next year it was...
