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webpage for author John Nicholas Datesh,
published by Loiseau Media and its Anyway
Books®
publishing imprint. Born in 1950, the author lived mostly in and around Pittsburgh. At Brown University, he took courses in writing as a rationale for doing just that. At Boston University School of Law, he learned to mix in the phrases It Depends and Hereinafter. In Spring 2009, he moved cats Lila and Lucy Liu to a condo one mile in from the east side of Florida's Naples Bay. He left his Pittsburgh career in law, business and product development in favor of writing fiction, going to Happy Hours and cultivating beach chairs. He began writing fiction with a pencil and published, on paper with actual ink, his first three novels: SF/Mystery The Nightmare Machine based on an endlessly recurring dream; Soft-boiled Detective The Janus Murder a sequel to his (saddly lost) high school play; and Espionage Thriller The Moscow Tape based on the US participation in the 1980 Moscow Olympic that never happened. Also available are his short stories The Pro Station (WWII without the fighting); The Final Equation (SF) and Reruns ad Infinitum (SF/Fantasy). They join the author's definitive 2009 Christmas short story, You Could Call It a Christmas Story as short works published after the move to Naples. He concocted a humorous and/or satiric blog at EmptyGlassFull.com shortly after moving. His Christmas Story began life as post to the blog, and he has e-published a collection its other early posts, grandly entitled The Very First Blog Posts of All Time. His first work written wholly in Naples was a screenplay entitled The Last Three Minutes. The story was based on an actual unsolved three minutes lost on his laptop. Attempts to market the screenplay went about as well as solving the three minute mystery. The masterwork-length The Girl in the Coyote Coat was originally conceived in 1979, in reaction to a real event, as a spree killer-thriller and did not include a coyote coat. Over (a long) time, it morphed into an epic (i.e., 770 pages) that transcended (i.e., did not fit) genres. |
 Story lost its spree, gained a coyote coat (two actually). It was no longer a thriller and no one would ever call it a romance. With a real estate and finance backdrop, the novel exposes how love, sex, money, scams, drugs, furs, and house-breaking / -shopping can affect the lives of complex and intriguing characters and even kill a few. The novel is also marketed as A Need Apart, with a more literary-sounding title and more subdued but equally striking cover. The author categorizes his 2016’s The Body in the Bog as a Sunset Noir mystery novel, set as it is in a town that gets dark after beautiful sunsets. It is the first novel fully a Naples product from concept to publication. It is also the first in the author’s planned Death by Condo series starring prematurely retired lawyer Ian Decker. It has a pretty good start: A lawyer dead on the Bog. The twists come later. Remember that unsuccessful screenplay about a time-challenged laptop? The Last Three Minutes is now a techno-ghost story of a novel, squarely in the cyber supernatural love story/thriller genre, assuming there is one. |
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