It was late afternoon yesterday when I was watching the fine old movie "A Man for All Seasons", which is one of my personal favorites and I proclaimed many years ago as appropriate Sunday viewing.
One of the twins (I don't remember which) came to me and asked if I had really written a book called "Rachel and Her Knight in Shining Armor". I was a little perturbed at being interrupted during the latest showing of my favorite movie, so I recall blurting out "YES!" Happily, I was being honest!
I wrote this novella in 1998, during the Great Writing Year while I was working off-shore. I was putting together a collection of short stories at the request of Barbour Publishing and this was the "anchor" story of the collection. It is actually several stories wrapped inside a narrative of the life of a dancer. It was also the last story from my "sappy tear-jerker" phase. It is acclaimed, even by my wife that wrinkles her nose at my more current work, as my best so far, even eclipsing the far more popular "The Miracle of the Quilt" which is included in my "The Joys of Autism and Christian Ethos" short story collection.
If you are up for my traditional unlikely heroes and a story where all the girls' dreams come true, you would do no better than to spend a bit of your evening with my hidden treasure "Rachel and Her Knight in Shining Armor"!
As a bit of an aside, my plans for a graduate degree fell apart, as well as a plan to do a book on family power! This always happens to me whenever I put off work on Navigiary. I am not moving ahead stunningly, but more progress is being made and I am "a-ways" into it. Surely I will find things to say in this blog as the work progresses...
Monday, October 29, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
Other Titles by Jason Nemrow
Hello again!
I have a new writing project that (of course) will push back work on the next book of the Navigiary allegory, Prophecy, for a few months. It is a book based on numerous essays I have written over the years around the topic of family governance and the working title is The Power of Family. The basic premise of the argument is that the locus of power that touches each person first and most should be their immediate family, as opposed to constructs like "society" and "government". It should be a good subject and a fine "life's work", since I need to be about that.
In the meantime, I am going to highlight one of my other books that is already available on the Amazon Store, which is The Joys of Autism and Christian Ethos. This is a collection of short stories that I wrote between 1986 and 1998, which is led off by my most read story, "The Miracle of the Quilt". These were stories originally written for my family newsletter during the Christmas season. I had always hoped "The Miracle of the Quilt" would be the next "Christmas Box" back in the late eighties, but I am a lousy marketer and will likely be until the day I die!
If you love a sappy story, you will appreciate the stories in this collection!
I have a new writing project that (of course) will push back work on the next book of the Navigiary allegory, Prophecy, for a few months. It is a book based on numerous essays I have written over the years around the topic of family governance and the working title is The Power of Family. The basic premise of the argument is that the locus of power that touches each person first and most should be their immediate family, as opposed to constructs like "society" and "government". It should be a good subject and a fine "life's work", since I need to be about that.
In the meantime, I am going to highlight one of my other books that is already available on the Amazon Store, which is The Joys of Autism and Christian Ethos. This is a collection of short stories that I wrote between 1986 and 1998, which is led off by my most read story, "The Miracle of the Quilt". These were stories originally written for my family newsletter during the Christmas season. I had always hoped "The Miracle of the Quilt" would be the next "Christmas Box" back in the late eighties, but I am a lousy marketer and will likely be until the day I die!
If you love a sappy story, you will appreciate the stories in this collection!
Monday, May 21, 2012
'Escape' is Released!
I started this blog to advertise the first book in the Navigiary series: Escape. It is a Kindle e-book because it was easy to publish and I can just leave (basically ignore) it to find its own way. I have absolutely no interest in doing any "real" marketing on this. I write as an obsession, for better or worse, and if it takes off in any way at all, it will be because it people liked it, as opposed to a slick ad campaign.
Personally, I find Escape a nice, light, playful introduction to the world that the larger story is set. I am on a bit of a hiatus from writing the second book as I am pursuing long-delayed graduate studies, so if you like Escape, it may be a while until you see Prophecy.
Personally, I find Escape a nice, light, playful introduction to the world that the larger story is set. I am on a bit of a hiatus from writing the second book as I am pursuing long-delayed graduate studies, so if you like Escape, it may be a while until you see Prophecy.
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