a month of mornings vol 1

The Old American Artist A Love Story Copyright © 2012 FelipeAdan Lerma Submitted to Library of Congress Cover & Book Design by Felipe Adan Lerma All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review. Printed in the United States ofAmerica First Printing: July 2012 * Published at Smashwords This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Inside Index Forward I II III eBook Titles Dedication Forward This is the first of three planned novellas centered around Arturo the artist and his wife Rosetta. That is of course, the simple layout. Complexities of relationships, living many years, and addressing meaning in life, are the more complex issues. My own working preference, and manner of doing best it seems, is to concentrate a point of view from one character, with input from other surrounding important characters. So I do better, as a writer, creating three novellas, than trying to mesh together stories about the artist Arturo, his wife Rosetta, and all the children and grandchildren and the main characters’ childhoods involved. Thus, the three books imagined are, “The Old American Artist, a Love Story,” “Rosetta,” and “The Children.” Though the differing books’ stories are not entirely concurrent, they overlap, producing, I believe, some interesting effects. Also, in terms of scenic technique and narrative, the form I follow here is less linear, and more cinematic. In the first book, and it appears in the second and third books as well, two timelines are used. One is set all in one part of a day, Arturo’s movement from the morning of his big anticipated art show that evening to that event. This timeline is interspersed in scenes with the second time frame, which begins over thirty years earlier, and provides an interacting backstory to the events of that one day. Almost all issues are resolved by the end of this first book, with hints of issues that are picked up and elaborated in the second book, “Rosetta.” I chose to call this a “love story” rather than a romance, even though, as per the Romance Writers of America, this book qualifies as a story about “a central love story and an emotionally-satisfying and optimistic ending.” The reason for that is because of the equally important story of being an artist, which makes this book a cross genre offering. Romance and art. It had to be a love story. ;-) Adan Lerma July 01, 2012 Index I ... - tailieumienphi.vn