The Tower of the Night Sky (A Blog)
Welcome to the Tower…
Here you’ll find pieces of whimsy and whatnot. Varied snippets of world building, character portraits, and works of short fiction.
How to Visit Harmony On Hudson (Part One)
Harmony on Hudson is a real place, although its not truly located on the eastern shore of the Hudson River “just north of Beacon and south of Cold Spring” as I have written. A look at a map will confirm that there is no such location; the directions are nonsense.
Who is Ralph Crespo?
Tolkienesque’s narrator, Ralph Crespo, was invented to be the butt of jokes. Ralphie first appeared in an earlier version of my forthcoming novel, Vanishing Places. In very early versions, my protagonist, Christopher Salvatore’s classmates, were a lot like my high school friends.