tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49168687659297124672024-03-13T10:11:26.965-07:00Bernard LoPinto, AuthorAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04470644857921815941noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4916868765929712467.post-53938707435111641302017-10-07T16:55:00.000-07:002017-10-07T16:58:31.528-07:00The release party for <i>Consent of the Governed</i> was on September 2. I figured it was about time I posted the photos from that event. Special thanks to Juan Espino for his help in making it a success and to my brother Sal LoPinto for taking the photos.<br />
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<span data-offset-key="8a62t-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Friends, I need you. All of you. My novella, <i>Consent of the Governed</i>, is ready for pre-buy at the Amazon Kindle Store for $3.99. Please buy the book and post a review on Amazon. If this book is to be a success, then I'll need lots of honest reviews.</span></div>
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America falls under the sway of a despot who blunders into
war and economic chaos. Destitute citizens suffer terrorist attacks on the one
hand and, on the other, oppression by the Red Shirts, the president’s own goon
squad, formed to crush dissent in a country that has not seen an election in
over a decade and where all rights are suspended indefinitely. Into this chaos
step Sid and Annie Winthrop, an elderly couple who have set out on a journey of
revenge against the Red Shirts for the murder of their son. Motivated by their
anguish and powered by their abiding love, these senior citizens make Bonnie
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About 50 years ago, I started believing I could be a writer. That is until I showed a sample of my work to someone whose opinion I trusted, one of my college instructors. She took two days to read my short story and then beat it with a three-pound hammer. After pummeling me for what seemed like an entire day—about fifteen minutes in real time—she asked, “Do you have anything to say?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I didn’t know how to answer. Did I have anything to say? I didn’t know. What was I supposed to say? Should I write about the war in Viet Nam, which, at the time, was tearing this country apart? How about the intergenerational polarization that was also a feature of the sixties, or the British Invasion, or the sexual revolution? I asked myself—more than once—what do I have to say? Then I figured it out. Nothing. I had nothing to say. As a nineteen-year-old suburban kid with little going on besides my sexual prime, I hadn’t lived enough to have anything to say. I just didn’t know it at the time. So I decided that this writing thing was too deep for me and turned to simply finishing college, which for me was about all I could handle. Life hadn’t happened to me yet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then life happened. Career, marriage, kids. It all happened, and it was all too busy for me to write about. I did keep a journal sporadically, and I began to think that I actually did understand the craft of writing. But I was too busy getting my family by to give any thought to the old question: Did I have anything to say? Then some things happened that gave me something to say.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Looking for the one best way, I turned to the life of faith, committing everything to building a strict moral compass that would get my family through any storm. I quit my job, and we sold our home, moving wife, kids, the dog and cat hundreds of miles to work with people sure to save the world for Jesus. I became a minister, dedicating every waking hour—and every available dollar—to a check-your-brains-at-the-door religion. We were on the true path. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then it all went bad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I finally came to understand the lies, abuse, and betrayal that had been the subtext of the life of faith I thought I was living, I had no way to get a handle on what had happened to a decade of my life. That’s when I turned back to writing. Now I had something to say, and I used fiction to say it. I had found my moral universe. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every writer works from his or her moral universe. Dickens, whose anger makes him my favorite author, wrote of the immorality of a society that exploits children in <i>Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, </i>and <i>Great Expectations.</i> A crime writer’s moral universe might be simply, “Crime doesn’t pay,” or “No one is above the law.” In Ayn Rand’s moral universe, the actualization of the ego is the highest good. Whether or not we agree with an author’s theme is not important. What is important is that the author expresses his theme in a way the reader understands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My first novel, <i>Power in the Blood</i>, took nearly twenty years to complete because I defined my moral universe as I wrote, and only recently did I take the opportunity to express my beliefs in detail. Now I have it, dark as it is.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">In my moral universe, nothing is as it should be. My protagonist, Pastor Timothy Rathbone, gets what he</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">wants—ministry in a mega-church—but comes to hate his congregation. His girlfriend—with</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">whom he lives in sin—is the biggest slut in ten states. Her father is at once a ruthless assassin and</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">a loving parent, dealing with a rebellious daughter. And the good, God-loving, Bible-thumping</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Christians of the village of Dayton Crossing are drug dealers, murderers, manipulators, or just plain crazy.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">In my moral universe, people of faith wait for God to move in their lives, and wait, and</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">wait, and wait. Sometimes God makes his presence known, sometimes not. There is no divine plan,</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">no justice, just the hope that "maybe this time. . . ." And above all, remember, "Be careful what you</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">ask for; you just might get it."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">My soon-to-be-published novella, <i>Consent of the Governed</i>, describes an elderly couple, intent on avenging their son's murder by government thugs. Ultimately, they find a common bond with a young couple--themselves part of the network of government thugs--and realize that they want the same thing, a chance to be free.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am about on e-third of the way into my second novel of the series, titled, <i>No Such Thing as Enough</i>, and my moral universe is clearer to me now than when I started. Consequently, the writing goes faster, and I have a better idea of where the story is taking me than with my first novel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As writers, we need to find our moral universe, our themes, based on our core beliefs. They are our starting point. When our moral universe becomes clear to us--when we know who we are--we can make it clear to others, and our writing becomes real and alive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Welcome to my blog! In this space, I will post news of my novels while I explore my thoughts on the craft of writing and the themes and experiences that lead me to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).<br />
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My first announcement is the release date for my novella, <i>Consent of the Governed, </i>published by The Wild Rose Press is September 1, 2017. It will come out as an ebook, available in all formats at <a href="http://thewildrosepress.com/">thewildrosepress.com</a>. The pre-order date has not yet been announced, but as soon as it is, I'll announce it here and on my Facebook page, The Books of Bernard LoPinto, <<a href="http://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=the%20books%20of%20bernard%20lopinto">www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=the%20books%20of%20bernard%20lopinto</a>>.<br />
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<i>It’s <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null">2029<span style="font-size: 10.6667px;"> </span></a>and the United States has fallen under the sway of an oppressive government where all citizens’ rights have been stripped, Red Shirts platoons patrol the streets, and people die for voicing opinions. Into this chaos step Sid and Annie Winthrop. The elderly couple set out on a <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null">murderous</a> journey of revenge against the Red Shirts who murdered their son. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Red Shirt members Victor and Brooklyn have devoted their young lives to the cause of the president in protecting the nation. When attacks on their hometown leave dozens of Red Shirts dead, Victor must help his superiors find the vigilante. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>At their darkest moment, each couple finds a common bond in their suffering and must decide where their loyalties lie.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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I'm excited about my first traditionally-published work, and I think you will be, too.</div>
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