Will iconic images recorded in the grooves of an ancient vase unite the Holy Land or rip it further apart?

THE VASE

A novel by Mark M. DeRobertis

Muhsin Muhabi is a Palestinian potter, descended from a long line of potters. His business is run from the same shop owned by his ancestors since the day his forebears moved to Nazareth. The region's conflict saw the death of his oldest son, and rogue terrorists are in the process of recruiting his youngest in their plot to assassinate the Pope and Israeli prime minister.

Professor Hiram Weiss is an art historian at Nazareth’s Bethel University. He is also a Shin Bet operative on special assignment. With the help of fellow agent, Captain Benny Mathias, he plans to destroy the gang responsible for the death of his wife and only child. He puts a bomb in the ancient vase he takes on loan from Muhsin’s Pottery Shop.

Mary Levin, the charming assistant to the director of Shin Bet, has lost a husband and most of her extended family to recurring wars and never-ending terrorism. She dedicates her life to the preservation of Israel, but to whom will she dedicate her heart? The brilliant professor from Bethel University? Or the gallant captain who now leads Kidon?

Harvey Holmes, the Sherlock of Haunted Houses, is a Hollywood TV host whose reality show just flopped. When a Lebanese restaurant owner requests his ghost-hunting services, he believes the opportunity will resurrect his career. All he has to do is exorcise the ghosts that are haunting the restaurant. It happens to be located right across the street from Muhsin’s Pottery Shop.




Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Back to Blogging--for now

So this blogging thing. It's getting old. I've noticed many old time bloggers, people who had blogged religiously everyday, either no longer blog, or have taken to blogging very infrequently. Even that guy who used to be a literary agent has become an inconsistent blogger. I remember that it was his blog I liked the most.  He blogged everyday, and provided a lot of information that was  useful to me, and I most certainly did learn an awful lot from his blog about writing and the publishing process. But now he's down to blogging once a week, maybe twice a week, and doesn't focus as much on writing and publishing anymore. So that's cool. Good thing I read his blog when I did.

But what about me? I never had as much to say, really, just wanted to promote my books. Now that Killer of Killers is published, and The Vase is in queue to be published, and I'm almost done with Killer Eyes, which will also be published, should I keep writing this blog? As I said yesterday, I'll probably keep it up until this summer. Then I'll probably stop, but if I do stop, the main reason is because this summer is when I want to start writing my fifth novel, the third book in the Trent Smith, (Killer of Killers) series. I really don't want to call it a series, but I guess that's what books are called if they have the same main character. And besides, I'm getting some ideas for future Trent Smith stories. I mean, if your character is the world's greatest martial artist who can take on anyone, then you've got something to work with. And I suppose I'll be doing just that for the foreseeable future.

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