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Robert
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Welcome
to Fittonbooks.com
You've
come to the wrong place if you're looking for the story of the gifted
child, inspired to compose imaginative, literary prose. But, the
telltale signs of a writing addiction loomed all around me ...
Like any
kid in the 1950's I cast myself as a soldier in countless World War II battles.
I specifically explained to my mother that I was constructing a
resolution of tension, spiced with appropriate melodrama, and powered
by powerful verbiage.
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He's lying) |
Sheridan Street |
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Most
importantly, my mother read stories aloud and primed my imagination.
I especially liked the Thornton Burgess books. She added her own
stories with vivid characters.
At the
Parkview School in North Easton, Massachusetts when we were handed
our spelling words I would connect each word into a story line and
yawn when it came time to actually spell the word correctly. Hmmmm...
I
grew up amidst the less complicated life of North Easton,
Massachusetts in the 1950's and 60's.
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Doris
and Ken
I was
raised by my parents with an appreciation of family, local, and
American history. My summers were spent in my neighborhood and town,
often competing in baseball and other sports within small town America.
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Little
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Flyway Pond
There
are places I'll remember
All
my life though some have changed
Some
forever not for better
Some
have gone and some remain
All
these places have their moments
With
lovers and friends I still can recall
Some
are dead and some are living
In
my life I've loved them all
But
of all these friends and lovers
There
is no one compares with you
And
these memories lose their meaning
When
I think of love as something new
Though
I know I'll never lose affection
For
people and things that went before
I
know I'll often stop and think about them
In
my life I love you more
Though
I know I'll never lose affection
For
people and things that went before
I
know I'll often stop and think about them
In
my life I love you more
In
my life I love you more
-The
Beatles
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In Mrs. Hardinger's Fourth
Grade Class
North Easton, Massachusetts
in the 1950's |
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You unlock this door with the
key to imagination
-Rod
Serling |
With
television's increasing influence, I reveled in the 1960's Star
Trek
and The
Twilight Zone.
On cold winter nights I pointed my telescope skyward and dreamed of
traveling to the stars or back through time. Please
don't ask my family and friends about how I recorded every late
night Star Trek episode on audio tape and maintained memory banks of
vital Trekkie trivia.
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Live
long and prosper |
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The
former Easton Junior High School
(now apartments) |
My
eighth grade English teacher at the Easton Junior High School, Mr.
Geary, endured off-the-cuff remarks, imitations, (of him) and pranks,
and finally tagged my performance not as humor but as wit ... I had
to think about that one. |
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My
senior English teacher,
Willis
K. Smith,
teacher overlooked my teenage trials and tribulations and inspired
me to write page after page of self-indulgent mush ... Now it's
middle aged, self-indulgent mush.
Perhaps
the audio tapes I produced with one of my high school buddies,
poking fun at our friends, ( friends until the tape was played )
should have clued me into a unrestrained craziness that needed to be
channeled. Now, I make MP3 and Podcast serial episodes! |
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Time it was, and what a time
it was, it was
A time of innocence, a time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories,
they're all that's left you
-Paul Simon |
After
bobbing in and out of school, I took my grades and life seriously and
graduated with a degree in American Studies from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. I also took numerous literature courses,
including the study of science fiction at UMASS Amherst.
Very suspicious
Within a
year of graduation wrote a s Star Trek novel. In that time right
after college a close friend read that work and I started another
book. The Star Trek manuscript sits on the shelf today, but that
effort tapped a reservoir of writing mania that continues unabated.
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I built
a career in outside sales, but continued writing in my free time and
participated in writing seminars. Sure, I read a plethora of "
how to" writing books and took courses in college, but I was
extremely fortunate to be in close proximity of an annual writing
conference on Cape Cod, where I absorbed every syllable from
instructors such as mystery writer,Sally Gunning science
fiction legend, Orson Scott Card, and writer-producer, Tom Sawyer. |
Small
town America is still out there -especially during a parade.
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(And
more bike rides)
With
marriage and an expanding family, I compressed my writing time into
the pre-dawn hours, (and whenever else) adding mystery,
fantasy, thrillers, and pop novel genres to my work.
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The IBM-XT
Seems ancient
The
advent of the personal computer prompted me to retire my typewriter
and dramatically increase my volume on computer disk. Cyber
Literature was expanded on-line and Fitton
Books.Com is
the ongoing accumulation of that effort. My close friend from
college sent my an IBM
XT
computer and prompted me to put my work on disk. Disks led to other
computers and the Internet. I edited my books again and created a web
site to sell Adventures in Cyber Literature." |
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At
my writing machine
A few
years ago I asked a noted author if a writer could produce novels for
readers without agents and publishing houses. The novelist paused,
thought for a moment and looked me in the eye.
"
Why, that would be like a gas station trying to sell gas without
dealing with the major oil companies!"
So,
what? Then let me sell the gas!
I was
aware of the power of the Internet and disagreed. I constructed a
personalized and unique web site and before e-books were mass
marketed on Amazon.com and Peanut Press, and placed my novels for
sale on-line in 2001. And the site evolved. I wanted my site to be
different than all the big name sites and the sites just selling
e-books. At my site you are charged a portal fee ( the cost of a
book) for a year's access to my site. Maybe we should talk if you
need more than a year to download everything. |
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Fittonbooks.com
offers a wide range of material and genre as wells as free chapters.
Graphically illustrated book jackets are included with each novel
purchase. Credit Card orders are easily downloaded into PDA Devices
(PDB files), into the Microsoft Reader (.lit files), and the Adobe
Acrobat Reader (PDF files) for personal computer reading. Audio files
are accessed on the MP3/Audio page.
And what
about this audio? I am not an actor. But since grade school I have
done "voices." I do not claim to be an audio engineer.
However, in my MP3 novels it's like listening to a serial on old time radio." |
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End of a hundred miler 2006
"You've
got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because
you might not get there."
-Yogi
Berra |
I
reside in a New England village on Cape Cod, maintain a jogging
schedule, often under the stars in winter, and a warm weather biking
routine in summer, including 100+ milers. My writing continues for
access members with a number of Series
Books
and new audio works posted on Fittonbooks.com.
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Thank
you for stopping by,
Robert
P. Fitton
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