Lonn Rosenthal is a retired teacher, active writer, and avid motorcyclist. When not banging away on a keyboard or cruising country lanes on his Harley, he’s chasing his growing brood of energized grandkids. He and his family reside amid the many splendors of the Empire State.
For anyone who has ever attempted it, writing is a grueling affair. To sequester oneself away from friends and family for extended periods of time is challenging enough. But to commit to the breath and scope of creating a book, whether fiction or other, is something else altogether. Through countless hours of research, successive drafts, abandoned ideas, and persistent doubt, the struggle is real and frequently overwhelming. Yet there is no choice as the writer is compelled to do it, like taking a breath or a bite. And only when the last polished period concludes the last sentence of the last paragraph of the last chapter can there be rest.
To sustain the creator’s stamina there must be compelling ideas, interests, and suppositions to not only initiate the impending journey but to see it through to the end. The ideas that have motivated this writer to develop multiple works of fiction include the omniscience of God; notions of loyalty and betrayal; acts of bravery and cowardice; the power of greed, avarice, and vaulting ambition; the resilience of the soul; the corrosive force of entrenched ideology; the potency of rage and revenge; and the mysterious realm of genius, which is explored in the forthcoming book, Flash of Fire.