My Blog
Welcome to the official blog of Ron Blumenfeld. Be sure to buy my new book, The King’s Anatomist and check out my other writings!
The Fateful Journey of an Orphaned Page of the Fabrica
This October past, at my Zoomed book launch, I explained how I came to write my novel: For over forty years, my mother was the sole employee of a rare book dealer in New York City, Philip C. Duschnes Rare Books and First Editions....
The James Webb Space Telescope: I’m Blown Away
This December 25 past, at 7:20 AM Eastern Time, an international team of scientists gave humanity a gift that Santa couldn’t dream of equaling in a thousand Christmases. Carefully packaged atop a European Ariane 5 rocket, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shot...
Distracted Writer? These Tools Are Here to Help. Kinda.
The December 20 issue of the New Yorker ran an article called “Focus Mode” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/can-distraction-free-devices-change-the-way-we-write that chronicles the author’s search for the “perfect tool” for the distracted writer – by...
Authors: This is Your Brain on Amazon
In a galaxy long ago and far away, a ruthless emperor built a terrifying weapon to vaporize entire planets. He called it Death Star. And now, in our own galaxy, a ruthless emperor built a terrifying weapon to vaporize entire retail stores. He calls it Amazon, and...
Why Aren’t Most Novels Illustrated?
These days, illustrated novels are hard to come by, continuing a hundred-year trend. In the early 20th century, novelists began to feel that their prose did not require any help from pictures. And observers of the current literary scene feel that visual media –...
Grandpa Writes a Novel
If internet surveys are to be believed, most debut novelists are thirty-somethings, the outliers being a smattering of teenage wunderkinds and a British woman who in 2019 published her first novel at age 93. “The King’s Anatomist” was accepted for publication in my 74th year, far distant from the crowd of newbies young enough to be my grandchildren and within sight of that extraordinary nonagenarian. But what of it? In the end a novel gets written when the author is ready, willing, and able.