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Onto the Next Thing

/ J. Tonzelli

I’ve recently picked back up with the book I started writing at the beginning of the year. I took a long break from it because I became too intimidated by its concept. I’m glad to be working on it again, but I’m pretty confident that it will be the most difficult thing I ever write. I wasn’t sure if I could make such a wild idea into a reality, but I’ve had some folks offer me some pretty great encouragement to keep it going, so, I am.

I hope I don’t let them down.

Free Things

/ J. Tonzelli

Who doesn’t like free?

If you head on over to the page for The End of Summer, you can sample the first ten pages from “Stingy Jack,” one of the anthology’s offerings. This just might be my personal favorite of the entire collection. I had a hell of a lot of fun writing it. Wish I could take 100% credit for it, but the tale is actually based upon a strange old myth concerning an unscrupulous man named Stingy Jack and the devil himself.

Enjoy!

The Messages Project

/ J. Tonzelli

ImageI recently donated a signed copy of The End of Summer to The Messages Project, a pretty wonderful organization centered around children of incarcerated parents. The book will be one of the many special items being auctioned off at an upcoming silent auction. Really flattered and humbled to have been asked to participate with this extremely valuable organization.

About
The Messages Project is a nonprofit organization that enables children of incarcerated parents to maintain relationships with their mothers and fathers.

Mission
Healthy parental connections are essential to a child’s development. Children are the silent victims of their parent’s crime through the trauma and loss of the environment that has been their life. When a child’s parent is incarcerated and a healthy connection is maintained, it reduces the child’s risk for social, emotional, and educational problems. For the incarcerated parent, family connection decreases the likelihood of recidivism. Maintaining and enhancing the bond between the child and the incarcerated parent through video messages and other interactive media are the focal points of The Messages Project.