Tag: Dawn Pisturino
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On Writing and Storytelling: When a Reader Sees You
When a Reader Sees YouReflections on a Review That Resonated There’s a quiet kind of joy that comes when a reader truly sees your work—not just the plot or the prose, but the emotional architecture beneath it. Dawn Pisturino’s recent review of Reunion: A Story did just that. She saw Jim Garraty not as a…
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Book Review: ‘Haiku for the Midnight Hour’
📘 Haiku for the Midnight Hour By Dawn PisturinoPublisher: Horse Mesa PressPublication Year: 2024Genre: Poetry (Haiku), Horror, Supernatural In August 2024, poet and blogger Dawn Pisturino released Haiku for the Midnight Hour, her third collection of poetry—a book that reimagines the traditional Japanese haiku through a lens of shadow and unease. Traditional haiku, with its…
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Tales of Writing and Weather in Southeastern Florida
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Books, Creative Writing, Dawn Pisturino, Florida Weather, Haiku for the Midnight Hour, Ian W. Toll, Ian W. Toll, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in Miami….Again, Life in South Florida, Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942, Pacific War Trilogy, Poetry, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Spring in Florida, The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945Early Afternoon, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, Miami, Florida Hi, there. Well, it’s another torrid late spring day in southeastern Florida on this second workday of the week. Outside, the temperature in my neighborhood – Coral Terrace – is 91°F (33°C) under sunny conditions – the same as in my former home in the Tampa Bay…
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Steamy Saturday in South Florida…and Touting a Fellow Blogger’s Haiku Book!
Mid- to Late Morning, Saturday, May 17, 2025, Miami, Florida Hi, everyone. It is a beautiful but steamy late spring morning in South Florida. The temperature is 80°F (26°C) under sunny conditions. With humidity at 87% and the wind blowing from the south-southeast at 3 MPH (4 Km/H), it feels like 90°F (32°C). It will…
A Certain Point of View, Too 