From the daily archives: Monday, August 6, 2012
You’re right. That’s only some freshly washed bed sheets that had dried in the sun and just now have been taken down from the clothes line and dropped into a laundry basket. There’s nothing quite so white as freshly washed bed sheets hung out to dry in blindingly bright sunshine. And, silly us, when we looked at the basket we thought it resembled a basket filled from one of those big white cumulus clouds that build up in the sky in August. OK, it’s just laundry. We admit it. And it doesn’t really look like a cumulus cloud. We admit that, too. We like it anyway. And it does look like clouds to us. Sort of.
Gene Mirabelli writes most of the posts here, so we're very pleased to announce that his recent novel, Renato, the Painter, has won a first prize for Literary Fiction in the 2013 Independent Publisher (IP or "IPPY") Book awards.
The Awards program was created to highlight the year’s most distinguished books from independent publishers. Award winners are chosen by librarians and booksellers who are on the front lines, working everyday with patrons and customers. Some 125 books competed for the literary fiction Gold Medal. These books are examples of independent publishing at its finest.Publishers Weekly says "In prose as lusty and vigorous as Renato himself, Mirabelli captures the feeling of coming to terms - ready or not - with old age." For more about the writer and his book, turn to our contact page or to the author's web site.
