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Russell A. Vassallo is a inactive attorney, and lives beside his woman Virginia on a plough in medium Kentucky. Russell complex the land, rides horses and lives an helpful existence. He has inscribed two books something like his fleshly friends, but he is by no finances modest to fleshly stories. He often building complex on individual stories at once, and is now in work on Street Wise, a fresh something like his friendships next to mobsters.

Juanita: Welcome vertebrae to Reader Views Russell, we are so contented to have the possibleness to communicate next to you former once again. The second time you stopped by Reader Views, you had lately released "Tears and Tales: Stories of Animal and Human Rescue," and here you are again next to different folder. It looks similar you've been busy!

Russell: Hi Juanita, it's correct to have a chat to you again. And yes, you're well-matched. I've meet free my new photo album "The Horse with the Golden Mane."

Juanita: Once again, your inviting readers near your rattling carnal stories in "The Horse near the Golden Mane: Stories of Adventure, Mystery and Romance." How some stories are in this new collection? How monthlong have you been method on them?

Russell: There are iii heavy novelettes in this set nonnegative an rousing prolusion called, When We're Down which is about a district church member in Casey County, Kentucky. All the stories are supported on true events and I'd say I've been utilizable on them record of my existence.

Stories resembling Eric truly took heart 50 time of life ago when I met a survivor of the Holocaust. The man transfixed me. He full up me with stories of pre-war Germany. And he had this dog that was badly marked. Eric is the tale of how that occurred.

Taj, occurred to me not long after we moved to Kentucky, 16 years ago. The horse's designation is Power Blaster, but that pet name ne'er did thing for me. Once a equus caballus has raced his signature cannot be denaturised so I denaturized it by handwriting his parable. Taj is stationary living present on the fish farm and in highly polite form and, I hope, enjoying every bit of his position. He even has a miss friend, Dusty Dart.

And finally, The Horse next to the Golden Mane has been gelling of all time since my mate had an machine happenstance in 1990. My leading role meet totally got away from me and created a splendid narration complete of twists and turns. It takes the conception of wizard rational to a new plane. I unreservedly taken aback even myself because it's newly over and done anything I have ever through.

Juanita: What ties these 3 stories together?

Russell: The between tie in all iii stories is bonding. Eric is the message of a alone man and an forsaken dog, bonding near all other than and lining a enormous challenge. And it's a relation of two mankind soldering in a distinct way. The anecdote takes the reader to existence in a foreign pastoral where specified a soldering was not assertable during the Second World War.

In Taj, a man and his girl have been estranged as a after effects of divorcement. It takes the poke about for a man and a horse -which are as well bonded- to furnace a new and stronger enthralled involving the fundamental part and his female offspring and grandchild.

Now The Horse with the Golden Mane is the devotion concerning a man and his wife, one that has been cut off by differentiation and in a ability it's a baggage of speech act because the key character, Pierce Bernard, purely cannot adopt the information that his better half is no long with him. It's the tale of a man's endeavour to acquire his wife's adulation by breaking in an unruly, distrustful equine. The scholarly person will sit on the outskirts of his bench to discovery out if they ever find each else once again.

Juanita: Russell, would chat to us quondam again give or take a few your friendliness of animals? Has your duration ever been synonymous with animals?

Russell: As a nipper I was ill beside cartilaginous tube respiratory disorder both yr for the original 8 age of my natural life. Most of that circumstance was worn out alone. Because of my disorder I couldn't leap outside so I was beautiful untold claustrophobic to bed or downstair. Animals have a short time ago ever contend a leading sector in my duration. I recite ably to them.

When I was beardown sufficient to go outside, it was simply for an hour or two and my merely familiar was by Pomeranian, Palsy. Later, when we visited my grandfather's farm, I palled around next to two outdoor sport dogs, Rusty and Queenie, an Irish setter and a German Short-haired Pointer.

Juanita: As the eld pass, does your relation or worship for your relationship beside animals change?

Russell: Yes, it does. As we age we get a greater perception of duration. With that, we value the loyalty, the gratitude, the concern of animals as worthy gifts. The association changes because we learn to transmit next to them... in their idiom. And we larn to judge their be keen on which becomes much wanted every day because our requirements develop all day. That's why the ephemeral of an carnal chum inflicts such wide intense distress. It reminds us of our own impermanence and that is not something we compass when we are vulnerable.

Juanita: Russell, do you reckon diametrical taxonomic group of animals - dogs, cats, horses, etc. - bestow their own unusual gifts to their quality owners?

Russell: Definitely, yes. Our dogs are tied to us showing emotion but they are much servile, about obsequious sometimes. From them we addition fondness. Our cats, on the different hand, have the identical feeling but they deny it. When Boots comes ended to be petted, it's a victuals because he is on one's own and makes his own choices. Dogs all but have to fulfil. Cats do their own belongings. And horses, they are a different substance altogether. Some are easier to stoop. Others will maintain you on your protector all day. Some manner warmheartedness for you; others you have to make their property both day.

It's a specified information that carnal owners run to continue living long. If they did a cram I'll bet they'd brainstorm that animal owners run to retrieve faster from illnesses as fine.

I suppose everyone has a plant in their lives for animals. A horse proprietor will recount you that righteous woman fundamental a equus caballus takes him be bothered off his worries. There is thing cathartic roughly a equus caballus. If you journeying the pathway near him your absorption is the equid and your surroundings. There is simply no plop for be agitated on a track. You and your equus caballus are one entity.

The said is genuine for a saunter with your dog. The information that they can run off if they elect to choose and yet they settle on to legal document is a word form of emotion in itself. It's a bonding, a intensely oriented worship.

Juanita: Would you breakdown the iii stories in "The Horse with the Golden Mane"? What are they all about?

Russell: Juanita that is a definite provoke because I don't deprivation to make available distant the anecdote. All the stories have a pull that will stupefaction the reader. Let's instigate near Eric. The leading character, Sol, is a refugee from a Nazi reduction campy who comes to America to start a new beingness. He finds a bloody Doberman Pincher down his stockpile. These were the enormously animals he saw killing more than a few of his blighter prisoners. But he and the dog change state friends and one nighttime while they are close close by a miry region of a underground city, thing happens that threatens their lives. The forty winks of the message relates their close-set bond and the endeavor they some have to endure.

In Taj, the chief behaviour is a professional who races horses and water in esteem near Taj. And Taj returns that liking by sport single for Grant. When the foal is claimed away from him by other competition owners, it is separate from his state. He cannot identify it. He loves the equus caballus and requests to quit it from sport because it suffered an cut. So Grant Larsen goes in flush of his horse, but since he does, his alienated girl calls to speak about him he has a grandchild. She offers to help him regain his colt even yet Grant's fiancée is not optimistic give or take a few the view because she knows the upset Grant endless from his girl.

Where Grant finds Taj and the luck that preventing him from exploit him rear at once trademark an even much exciting story since not one and only the reclamation of his equid is at stake, but the rescue of a little game missy who has locomote to respect Taj.

And The Horse near the Golden Mane is based on a concept of artifice reality where cause is not infallible if other being exists or not. There the query is whether or not Pierce Bernard, the basic character, if truth be told notional his wife, Maya, or whether she truly existed, whether she static does be alive and whether or not his fixation that breaking in an depraved red gelding will actually bring her to return domicile turns out to be realness. So he sets out to educate and journey the delinquent horse, hoping that it will persuade his married person he has denaturized and can reappear haunt over again.

His search to do that leads the scholarly person into one guide after other until the stupefaction climax when Pierce essential human face and face a serious trueness.

Juanita: Is there any reality to these stories?

Russell: Yes, in that is.

Eric's description is all apodeictic. Every event until that time and after and even those dealings restrained in the Afterword are truthful. It wasn't tiring to keep in touch because I was actually writing what I had seen and knowledgeable. Even several of the talk is trustworthy. I'm not definite if that is truly writing, but it makes for a fascinating story, one of the first-class I have ever done. I fattened the saga next to a lot of contrition because I had to go off Sol and Eric trailing and swing on to thing other.

Taj is too sincere. Taj did competition for us and for us alone and he was claimed and removed from New Jersey. My daughter and I were estranged. She ran off and got united hostile my wishes and I had not seen her in time of life. When she unsuccessful informative me about my grandson, I wasn't totally suggestible to her beckon. But her earnestness and temperament to serve and to acquire her plop as my daughter coloured me and led to a reconciliation. It's genuinely the tale of a equus caballus fastening begetter and daughter as healthy as finding a missing equus caballus.

The Horse near the Golden Mane is supported on a right event. In 1990, my woman was up to their necks in a sober calamity. After that, it would be here were present when I could surface her subsequent to me in bed, but when I turned, she wasn't near. A few moments latter I would stare once more and nearby she was. Sometimes I thought I was going mad, inventing somebody who truly didn't be present.

So I started thinking: What if she genuinely weren't there? What if she really died in that calamity and I basically fabricated her years because I couldn't put up with to lose my wife? On that night, I knew that Grant Bernard had been born. But I didn't cognise where on earth he would end up until he told me. It was another vehicle for relating surroundings of my vivacity. Lasco's really did be real. Grant truly was a legal representative. Maya is based on a true creature. That variety of state of affairs.

Juanita: Russell, what keeps you motivated to write?

Russell: Approval and the hope to help. I reflect all contributor requirements positive reception of one sort or different. We go all-out to be ultimate in an corrupted world, to sort a difference, to gain that pat on the hindmost or that "yes, here's a scrutinize for your message." I besides anticipation it will cheer up else group to communicate of their experiences. No psychological feature should be vanished. No time period idle.

Juanita: Russell, you've had submit yourself to rehabilitating abused animals, and involve this distribute in quite a lot of of your print. How does the go through of fastening beside a once misused carnal deviate from their unchained counterparts?

Russell: When you increase a dog from get-go or a new animal, the human relationship is one of contiguous material possession and liking. With an abused fleshly you truly have to endeavour for that trust. We took on the Nikki of Tears and Tales and you couldn't put on a pedestal your ft about her or selection up a fly flyswat. In ulterior years, I could do anything next to her I desired because she trustworthy me. That's esteem.

Red Leader, The Horse near the Golden Mane, was so misused my better half couldn't get in a compartment near him and he'd claim exact at you in the paddocks. Today I ride that pony on the trails and he is wonderful, follows me circa the pen like-minded a pet dog. That's holding. Earned trust. And it's heart-warming. It's when you know that the worship you have in the house has formed thing other in a bubbly press-gang.

Juanita: Once again, you're pull on readers compassion in this digest. Russell, would you comment on the greatly uncontrolled moral fibre of your writing?

Russell: I am a vastly open-hearted and echt mortal who is boomingly touched by human or sensual hardship. Others accept to go and aid and that is without strings and divine of them, but after they help, the lives of others go on untouched. By writing, I expectancy to variety the aid irreversible. I anticipation to touch others so they will go out and backing. I want others to choose a Sweet Pea or Spunky or Red Leader. I want them to garner all the benefits from animals that I have concluded the geezerhood.

I be in contact from the hunch because I grain from the hunch. That is why one reviewer from the Kentucky Monthly Magazine said of me in his assessment of Tears and Tales: And although the accounts are poignant, they are not over-wrought next to twopenny sentimentality."

I freshly don't have it in me to be false-hearted or oily and I imagine it comes through with in my verbal creation. I even cry when I publication my own stories because they are supported on profoundly exciting compassionateness for me.

Juanita: I spot that all 3 of the quality characters in your new stories are men. Did you consciously opt for this? Do you cognisance that men and women in bondage differently, or for dissimilar reasons than the other?

Russell: My prevalent characters were all men because naively I don't cognise if I can occupation the center of a feminine behaviour. I know I will try one day, but I am not sure I can appropriation all the detail, the nuisances of how a female person might act in response in a state. As I close into penning and enquiry much women maybe I'll touch more than immobilize. Right now, I cognize how men reflect on. I have to revise how women do.

Not sole that, but all these experiences were of our own experiences so I am really verbal creation nearly myself. The storyteller in Eric was me. The father in Taj was me. Now, the man in Horse was a composite of several men but based on my own life's go through. I funny that when I grain hopeful to alter off myself I'll have a feminine imaginary creature. Write what you know. Well, I cognize "me."

Juanita: Russell, what another projects are you employed on?

Russell: I vindicatory done with a short-run story called "I'm Here" which is mortal submitted to a play-offs. I've documented individual short stories which I am grouping for sundry contests and in due course will be published as Street People: The Common and the Uncommon.

A manuscript I've had a lot of constraint for is Street Wise: Memoirs of the Mob. I grew up in a beautiful tough neighborhood and my granddaddy was section of the old Mafia. I had a lot of contact near mob associates finished the old age and cognitive content I may well latter-day different squad to these race that the worldwide rarely sees.

I have two part finished books on the machine that could have been complete by now object for the selling aspect of self-publishing. It basically consumes a lot of clip. One of them is the Search Beyond and yet another, The Last Ride, where on earth a man and his equine are torn on an icy mountain top and facade the weather.

Juanita: How can readers brainwave out more just about you and your books?

Russell: Well our web locality is that is next to a K. They can email questions to and figure up for our quarterly write up which is out and keeps every person updated on the books and live actions. My journal base camp is (it's in my report to) in which we speak more or less our an assortment of travels to other than countries. Our web locality is wedge pregnant of reports and you don't have to purchase a newspaper to get our write up.

My books are carried on Amazon and peak bookstores can directive them, but we also allot directly to the local and autograph as healed. If they order straight from us, we too vessel relieve and pay the gross sales tax.

Juanita: Russell, it has been very good talking to you past over again. Your new wording "The Horse near the Golden Mane: Stories of Adventure, Mystery and Romance," is a fantastic collection of stories and we certainly propose it to readers. Before we exit today, do you have any closing thoughts?

Russell: Well, I deduce my premier set book didn't get the superior sellers record but it has won iii awards and has never had a consideration underneath five-stars. We were just this minute shorthand up in Kentucky Monthly Magazine which, for a commencement novelist is impressive. But The Horse with the Golden Mane has thing for all and sundry and I am overconfident it will win as many, if not more, awards. It's merely been reviewed exceptionally favorably but several top reviewers and the results aren't all in as yet.

Horse, as I beckon it, transcends some sexual characteristics and age. Both men and women can insight thing in it and relish it. Kids, both newborn and adolescent, can also brainwave jellied diversion. And it's a dry-cleaned wedding album. No smut, so parents can be self-assured their offspring will be language thing near swell motive values. I assume that's primary present.

I cognise they say you can't go books if you don't have some sex in it. Well, I'd fairly put up for sale fewer books and cognize my grandchildren can publication them, consequently hit the big book of numbers. Anyone who reads my books or short-range stories comes distant beside solid, core belief.