http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Rob+Costelloe Relationships Rob Costelloe Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=199701&ca=Relationships There are many kinds of love and romantic love is different from the others. Parental love tends to be more constant and to exert an almost involuntary pull on our emotions, a compelling and ionizing draw toward commitment and sacrifice. In contrast, romantic love goes through stages, starting with... Writing Rob Costelloe Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=198074&ca=Writing Authoring as a Risk-Taking Endeavor Being an unpublished novelist poses all sorts of dilemmas.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... Writing Rob Costelloe Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=191788&ca=Writing Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher and Editor of http://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... Writing Rob Costelloe Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=192106&ca=Writing Is it possible to achieve a higher romantic love than the resigned complacency we see all around us? If so, can it be sustained for long? Would many people really want it? Sure, nonfiction literature is replete with books, courses, and seminars on how to achieve romantic or marital bliss. But few of... Writing Rob Costelloe Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=189630&ca=Writing When I was functioning as that lowest of all life forms, the unpublished author, I benefited from established novelists willing to share their experiences. This article is intended to give something back, especially since my experience had some unexpected turns. I quickly learned to prefer sending... Writing Rob Costelloe Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=187353&ca=Writing My publishing journey has been unusual enough that friends and publicists alike have suggested I write about it, especially the part about being a man writing love stories in a woman's genre. But it's not just the genre. The whole publishing and agency world I encountered was dominated by women. Sou... Relationships Rob Costelloe Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=184572&ca=Relationships I happened to be walking through the den the other day and overheard a pundit on Fox News exhorting prospective newlyweds to be sure to set up separate checking and banking accounts for each of them. She seemed to be mentioning it as a kind of checklist item, probably part of an array of recommendat... Relationships Rob Costelloe Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=183398&ca=Relationships A while back on a family trip, my single adult daughter commented how distasteful it was that her mother and I shared the same toothbrush. This sort of thing had come up before, and her comment was more resigned--like a sigh--than spirited. I smiled at the comment, but said nothing. Later I recalled...