Penquis Valley High School

Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Rob Costelloe, author of Coinage of Commitment.
Good day Rob and thanks for participating in our interview.
Norm: When did your passion for writing begin? What keeps you going?
Rob: I wrote earlier in life, including a teeth-cutting first novel, then I abandoned [...]

Authoring as a Risk-Taking Endeavor
Being an unpublished novelist poses all sorts of dilemmas. Writing is entrepreneurial in nature, more than most people realize, and it is fraught with make or break decisions. Which side of the political spectrum do you show yourself? Do you embellish this or that social issue, perhaps the one most fashionable, [...]

In 1865 at the 5th Worldpostkonference in Karlsruhe, Germany there was the first suggestion to induct a kind of “postpiece” with an integrated postmark. But this suggestion was rejected because of moral aspects.
At the end of 1869 in Austria there was an idea of an “correspondence-card” with an imprinted postmark. This card did cost 2 [...]