New Year, New Site
The champagne and streamers are a fading memory. Time for the new and improved NicolaTrwst.com.
WELCOME to my new website. An update was long overdue and so I finally got to it (well, my elf did).
I will be using this site to introduce you to my books, offer you short stories, and introduce you to some fine artists and writers.
As my bio suggests, I’m eclectic in almost everything I do that’s why my new blog is titled: Myths, Munchies, and Madness. Three of my favorite things.
I hope you will enjoy it, come back often, and feel free to share.
I hope all your dreams come true in 2012!
Nicola
Stop your Wine-ing
I’ve just read about prisoners making wine out of fruit cocktail and stale bread. As gross as that sounds, it got me thinking about the origin of wine. Was wine an accident of old grapes and bread. Did a house servant of yesteryear noticed the chickens staggering around and singing off-key after devouring last night’s table scraps? Did that servant then think, hey, I’d like to do that? Continue reading
Bayou Nights
Bayou Nights is a novel of vengeance, carried out in the terrifying environment of corrupt politics, social injustice, and the exotic eroticism of Voodoo. Set in the months prior to Hurricane Katrina, Claire Rivet, a Baton Rouge Assistant District Attorney, attempts to connect the rape and murder of a young woman to the similar attack on her when she was ten. She is certain the same person is responsible and she lives only to bring her attacker to justice. In the Louisiana bayou, her quest is dangerously compromised by Mamma Anna, a voodoo priestess who lures Claire into a dark Voodoo practice, magie noire, reserved for those willing to give up everything for revenge. When the lines between justice and revenge start to blur, Claire struggles to choose the right path, not knowing that Mamma Anna hasn’t left her one.
The Finger
The short story “The Finger” illustrates the anguish of Italian immigrants gathered to bury an old friend when an unconceivable accident occurs…
The Finger was selected by the San Francisco Writers Conference for inclusion in their 2006 anthology: Building Bridges from Writers to Readers. The anthology, compiled and edited by Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen, can be found at lulu.com Read this Short Story →