Two Drops of Ink, one of the most popular on-line writing sites, has published my poem, "Of Hummingbirds and Lions:"
"Two hummingbirds come to the weathered rail of the grey porch, poke in and out of the red boxed flowers, back away.
They hover beside my ear, wings beating the air, bringing the only hope of a breeze.
Beyond the sharp beaks, pointing, lie blonde hills topped by smoky blue haze. The tawny mountains drop, disappear imperceptibly into the ocean..."
To read the entire poem, check out Two Drops of Ink.
To order Sister Mysteries, my new novel, go to claudiajricci.com or Amazon.com.
It's no coincidence that the setting of the new novel is the same golden California hillside that appears in this poem. I wrote the poem while at a writing colony in California. And I wrote a lot of the novel at the same colony.
Readers are giving the new novel high praise:
“Ms. Ricci writes a real page turner; I found it challenging to put this book down! The immediately-engaging characters of Sister Renata and Gina develop a complicated relationship across time that sweeps the reader up in the dramatic events of the story that turns out to involve them both. In addition, Sister Mysteries is a wonderful fugue on the power of writing and also the power of music--a lot to accomplish. The author does this with seeming effortlessness--Bravo!”
"Just an absolutely amazing piece of work. The vivid imagery, the poetry, the artistry. Her writing has a flow and cadence that penetrates and turns the reader into a fellow traveler. I can't wait to share this with others."
"Claudia Ricci is an amazingly gifted writer. Beautiful, painful, torturous, true, mysterious, provocative and healing -- a story of courage and friendship in the face of greed, power and betrayal."
"Her descriptions are so vivid and the story itself is so intriguing."
"Two hummingbirds come to the weathered rail of the grey porch, poke in and out of the red boxed flowers, back away.
They hover beside my ear, wings beating the air, bringing the only hope of a breeze.
Beyond the sharp beaks, pointing, lie blonde hills topped by smoky blue haze. The tawny mountains drop, disappear imperceptibly into the ocean..."
To read the entire poem, check out Two Drops of Ink.
To order Sister Mysteries, my new novel, go to claudiajricci.com or Amazon.com.
It's no coincidence that the setting of the new novel is the same golden California hillside that appears in this poem. I wrote the poem while at a writing colony in California. And I wrote a lot of the novel at the same colony.
Readers are giving the new novel high praise:
“Ms. Ricci writes a real page turner; I found it challenging to put this book down! The immediately-engaging characters of Sister Renata and Gina develop a complicated relationship across time that sweeps the reader up in the dramatic events of the story that turns out to involve them both. In addition, Sister Mysteries is a wonderful fugue on the power of writing and also the power of music--a lot to accomplish. The author does this with seeming effortlessness--Bravo!”
"Just an absolutely amazing piece of work. The vivid imagery, the poetry, the artistry. Her writing has a flow and cadence that penetrates and turns the reader into a fellow traveler. I can't wait to share this with others."
"Claudia Ricci is an amazingly gifted writer. Beautiful, painful, torturous, true, mysterious, provocative and healing -- a story of courage and friendship in the face of greed, power and betrayal."
"Her descriptions are so vivid and the story itself is so intriguing."
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