Craig Nova’s Charms and Terrors

Weaving the characters into place,

A two way mirror forms in his books.

Through imagination mysterious connections knit together

Readers find the same sweaters in their own emotional closets.

As writers we must define our terms, invoking our tough times,

Sometimes a Father’s death, the forms of love get stuck in the author's pen pointing to Dicken’s  “Charms and terrors” of writing.

Some stories can not be written no matter how many times you try,

Truth to a novelist is different than the facts,

Craig says “When you have to tell it just the way it happens, sometimes you can’t tell it.”

We journey with him through vignettes of happiness from his book.

Closing advice – “Write your truth, don’t worry so much about being truthful.”

“Craig Nova is a fine writer, one of our best,” writes Jonathan Yardley, book critic for the Washington Post. “If you haven’t read him, the loss is yours.” “He’s a novelist who has yet to write a supermarket bestseller…but he has written at least two American classics that will likely resonate after his death, the way the poor-selling ‘Great Gatsby’ did for poor ol’ F. Scott Fitzgerald,” writes David Bowman of Salon.com.