Nina Munteanu

Have you ever wondered how an editor decides not to read your cherished tome past the second paragraph of the first page and has pegged you as a beginning writer? This used to really bug me… Well, as a published author and occasional mentor, I do from time to time read manuscripts (please don’t send [...]

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His Tag line reads: where the true and the real are often confused.
He calls himself Somerset Bob. “Because throughout my professional life, I’ve often found myself explaining to people that I’m ‘the other’ Bob Kingsley,” he says rather apologetically. “It’s about time that changed. I don’t want to be the other any more. I want [...]

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Well, it’s Friday again and time for my Friday Feature. First of all, a little sharing…Folks, my book, Darwin’s Paradox will be arriving at bookstores all over the world on November 15th, less than two weeks from now and I can tell you that I am unabashedly excited by it. Besides Amazon (e.g., in the [...]

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O Muses, O high genius, aid me now!O memory that engraved the things I saw,Here shall your worth be manifest to all!—Dante Alighieri, Canto II of the Inferno
As a published author of over a dozen short stories and three novels (with more coming!) I often get asked how and where I draw my inspiration from. [...]

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A comment to my previous post, Christ-Figure in Movies/Books—Grace or Redemption?, by the ever-thoughtful and provokative Modern Matriarch, got me thinking again. Said our Matriarch: “I would argue that the ‘christ-figure’ iconography is not always intended by the writer, but is the result of western reader response. As Joseph Campbell pointed out, the archetypes exist [...]

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