Where will I be reading from Initiation, the first short story in A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To Yountville this Sunday? In Yountville, of course. Join me in central Napa Valley this Sunday, April 29th from noon to 2pm for a Poetry/Prose Salon held at Hill Family Estate’s wine tasting room in downtown Yountville. […]
A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To Yountville
Wine Questions from A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To Yountville
Thanks to all who have mentally sipped “A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To Yountville.” I appreciate the emails/DMs of support as I straddled the line between fact and fiction in my world of Spies, Crime And Always A Lot Of Wine. I’ve returned to working on “Dance” (sequel to “Desire“) and will have it […]
My Way To Yountville Q and A #1
We’re still in the first week of release for A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To Yountville and interesting questions have already come in via social media and this site’s Contact Us. I’ve picked a few to share and hope the answers will increase everyone’s enjoyment of the stories. 1. Are the stories true? For the […]
“A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To Yountville” Is Out!
A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To Yountville is a brief compilation of wine-centric stories pecked out during breaks in development of the final plot gadgets for Dance, the sequel to Desire in the Frank Mire political thriller series. As the subtitle explains, these stories are Wine-Induced Tales Of A Journey To The Napa Valley Nexus […]
A Funny Thing Happened… Initiation
Initiation, from “A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To Yountville: Ten Wine-Induced Tales Of A Mystical Journey To The Napa Valley Nexus Of Mind, Body And Sip” by John Cordon. All rights reserved Copyright 2017 John Cordon. And so the journey of another wine novice begins… Initiation “A journey of a thousand tastings begins […]
Napa Valley Fires
Today, wildfires continue to burn nearby in Napa Valley, Sonoma County and surrounding areas. As I jot this note, I look out my office window and see thick clouds of dark grey smoke blown by fast winds moving in my direction. This smoke appears to be coming from fires still burning in the hills northeast […]