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Comment by Catherine Green on November 20, 2011 at 9:58pm

Thanks Robert, but I think it is working ok. I will check.

Borislava, I would offer but can't commit at the moment due to my current projects. Good luck with it though.

Comment by Robert L. Allen on November 21, 2011 at 1:21am

Hey guys, I jyst got an e-mail from someone using Author's as a dating service. Do you guys get those and if so, does Author's read these messages. This site is for writing not dating...And another thing I commented on a poem the other day only to learn, the writer was 10 years old. I thought this site was dor adults...Borislava, I can't comit, i think my computer is dying, byt U think it would be great fun. Maybe, I'll try to look at some of it tonight and get back to you...  

Comment by Robert L. Allen on November 21, 2011 at 2:05am

Borislava this is just a little on your synopsis. The first is your, then mine and questions.

 

Italian ambassador, 40 years old Count Giovanni Di Castellano breaks all the rules of his world when in New York in the 1930s he meets Sofiana Assenova, an opera-star at "La Scala". After two years of efforts, Giovanni and Sofiana succeed in obtaining permission for marriage from the Italian King Victor Emanuel the Third and from Vatican in spite of the protests of the Di Castellano family, because she is divorced and of Bulgarian origin.
She gives up her brilliant career and is converted to Roman Catholic religion. Count Di Castellano works in Paris, Moscow, London, Morocco and Rome. He is viewed as a Don Quixotte by political circles of that time. After his resignation, the couple returns to Sicily. 
After the death of Count Di Castellano, Sofiana finds herself in Sicilian mental home and tries to understand what has happened with her and why. Seven years later she is saved with great difficulties and being treated in a catholic monastery before finding the path back to her grown-up son.

 

40 years old Count Giovanni Di Castellano, an Italian ambassador breaks all the rules when in New York in the 1930s. He meets Sofiana Assenova, an opera-star (or singer) at La Scala. (Quotation marks are not need to emphasize La Scala. My Computer is saying it is spelled wrong, I don’t know.) (The next part is losing me, but I think you are trying to say…) Something leads them to falling in love and after two years they succeed in obtaining permission to marry from King Victor Emanuel the Third and also the Vatican in spite of the protests of the Di Castellano family, because she is divorced and of Bulgarian origin. (I don’t like the last sentence. Too much info in one sentence. Break them up.) She gives up her brilliant career and is converted to Roman Catholic religion. (Why?) Count Di Castellano works in Paris, Moscow, London, Morocco and Rome. (I don’t think we need to know everywhere he works. Not in the synopsis.)  He is viewed as a Don Quixotte by political circles of that time. After his resignation, the couple returns to Sicily. (You don’t need (of that time.) You are writing of that time.)

After the death of Count Di Castellano, Sofiana finds herself in Sicilian mental home and tries to understand what has happened with her and why.
 (Mental home is slang, the correct terminology is sanitarian. And how or why has Count Di Castellano died?) Seven years later she is saved with great difficulties and being treated in a catholic monastery before finding the path back to her grown-up son. (When and how did she leave the Mental institution and go to the catholic monastery?) (And her son come into the story at the end, what’s up with that???...

Comment by Anna L. Walls on November 21, 2011 at 8:49am

I get those once in a while. I usually report the issue. There's a link down at the bottom of the page. Tell them the name of the person who sent you the mail. 

Comment by Borislava Borissova on November 21, 2011 at 9:47am

Hi Robert, I am sending my answers:

an opera star – star is more than a singer
He fells in love with Sofiana Assenova, an opera-star at La Scala.
She gives up her brilliant career and is converted to Roman Catholic religion to obtain permission for marriage with him from the Italian King Victor Emanuel the Third and from Vatican in spite of the protests of the Di Castellano family. She is divorced and of Bulgarian origin.
On his part Count Di Castellano have to resign after years of high profile work in Paris, Moscow, London, Morocco, and New York and comes back to Sicily.
/I sent the synopsis to a few publishers and they were very interesting in the settings so I keep the names of the cities./

Mental home is in use of Sicilians newspapers /I read them sometimes in English through Internet and I visited the island personally before to finish the story/ when they describe such cases in their articles. It is a very specific place, not exactly psychiatry or sanitarian. All these places are closed during 2002 with a special law but in the middle of 20 century they are used for political opponents and other cases.
After the death of Count Di Castellano, Sofiana finds herself in Sicilian mental home and tries to understand what has happened with her husband, with her and why.
Seven years later she is saved with great difficulties and being treated in a catholic monastery before finding the path back to her grown-up son, the new heir of Di Castellano family.
I do not agree to give more details in synopsis, Robert, the book itself is for details. The synopsis should be short in my opinion.

My great thanks for your effort! I think it was very useful and the new variant is better than mine :)))

Comment by Amy Manemann on November 21, 2011 at 12:24pm

Robert I've gotten a few of those myself and just delete them. One even wrote to me thinking I was a guy (?!) Seriously, is it the hair? lol

I thought this was an adult site as well, not sure about that one.

Comment by Geoff Hall on November 21, 2011 at 2:21pm

Me too, but I am a guy! How well is this site monitored for spam? I've had a few of these 'approaches'.

Comment by Robert L. Allen on November 21, 2011 at 7:50pm

Amy, by all means, you do not look like a male. I love you smile. It would be nice to meet you. Note, I am not flirting. You just look like a nice person. And yes, I normally delete them. I just think Author's could eliminate stuff like that. And Borislava, I agree the shorter the synopsis, the better. However you have to follow the guideline of your publishers. And I still think that so many names of places that will be disgust in the book are not needed in the synopsis. Thus too many names of characters. I got lost reading it. Too much info on some things and not enough on other things. At the end you bring in the son, which hasn't been mention before that point...just a thought...

 

 

Comment by Amy Manemann on November 21, 2011 at 9:44pm

lol Thnx Robert :0)

Comment by Anna L. Walls on November 21, 2011 at 10:12pm

haha - same here, Amy. I get them in Yahoo too, thinking I'm a guy. "I think you're so handsome. Contact me here and I can send you my picture." So lame. 

Geoff, I'm not sure how this place is monitored, but I do know that once I report them, I don't need to remove the mail. They are gone. 

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