Mark Nassutti

On October 30, 2010, my dear friend and fellow writing group member Tina Hoggatt gave me a nudge in the ribs to try NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month.  32 days later, I had a 50,000-word first draft of a novel based loosely on the lives of my paternal grandfather, Umberto, and his brother, Amedeo. [...]