4.25.20

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter April 25th, 2020 “Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison  Good morning from an overcast New York. It has been a gloomy week in the Hudson Valley, one filled with rain and wind and social distancing. While spring flowers are blooming, it doesn’t feel much like spring. I have been busy talking up my new novel The Ancestor, …

4.18.20

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter April 18th, 2020  “Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison  Good morning from the Writing Cave. Here in New York State, we are still fighting to keep Covid-19 in check. There have been many thousands of deaths and many people sick. Contagion is beginning to flatline, according to reports, but it doesn’t feel that way in my neighborhood. …

4.12.20

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter April 12th, 2020  “Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison  Hello on this blustery Sunday in the Hudson Valley! It has been a busy week. The Ancestor was published on April 7th, and I’ve been doing interviews and live events constantly, which has left me feeling a bit antisocial. This weekend, I’ve been trying to get as much quiet …

4.4.20

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter April 4th, 2020   “Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison  Good morning from the writing cave, where the sun has just emerged from a bank of thick gray cumulus clouds. It has been gray all week, and so I wanted to share with you the new bubblegum pink sweater I knit!  I gave it to my …

3.28.20

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter March 28th, 2020 “Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison  Good morning from the writing cave! Exciting news! My copies of The Ancestor arrived this week! Here I am, opening them and seeing my book for the first time. It is such a gift to have my books but they have arrived in a moment of uncertainty.  There has been a …

3.21.20

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter March 21st, 2020  “Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison  Dear friends, What a week! Like most of you, I’ve been reading the news and making plans to stay inside for the foreseeable future. I know many of you in New York are without jobs, as restaurants and stores and all ‘non-essential’ businesses have been closed. There …

3.14.20

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter March 14th, 2020   “Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison Good morning from the writing cave, where I am reeling from a week of upheaval. My novel The Ancestor is out in four weeks, and most of the stops on my book tour have been cancelled. Literary Orange in California, The LA Times Festival of Books, and a reading …

3.8.2020

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter March 8th, 2020 “Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison  Good morning on this beautiful sunny Sunday. I’ve been holed up in my house in the Hudson Valley, spending time with Hadrien and my kids, and baking. For those of you who follow my baking endeavors on Twitter, you will know that I’m currently obsessed with making the perfect …

2.29.20

“Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison  Good morning from the Writing Cave, AKA my office, where I have been spending an extraordinary amount of time this week. When it is cold and gray outside, as it has been this past week, being here feels like a respite and a cocoon from the elements. In fact, during the winter, staying in my …

2.22.20

“Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison  Good morning from the sunny Hudson Valley, where I am having my second cup of coffee and thinking about the week that has passed. It has been a beautiful week for me, one of the best I’ve had in a long time. Nothing objectively amazing happened (no great reviews for my new book or an …