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Lucille Bellucci
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Lucille Bellucci was born in Shanghai, China, to an Italian-Dutch-Indonesian father and Chinese mother. She has lived five years in Italy and 15 years in Brazil. Her short stories and essays have been published in national periodicals and literary journals, earning eight first-place awards. Her prize-winning story, "Cicadas," has been nominated for the 2013 Pushcart Prize. She resides in Oakland
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War and revolution in China shaped my early life up to age 18. Italy was an improvement because there was no war but I earned a terrible living for the five years I lived there. San Francisco after that was heaven. Then Brazil, where I found myself a corporate wife. Being hungry in China and Italy was useful only as grist for my books and short stories.
Birth Place: Shanghai, China
Accomplishments: Eight first-place awards for a essays and short stories and several honors. I was a singer in Brazil in the Little Theatre. No money, but fun.
10/07 I will receive the Jack London Award from the CWC (Calif.Writers Club) for my work as chair of the 5th grade writing contest.
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Books
|  | A Rare Passion by Lucille Bellucci
Passion flares between Linden Bradly, an American biologist, and Cole Dominguez, a Brazilian rancher as Linden rescues and treats animals flooded out by the new dam. Cole metes out justice to a cattle-rustling neighbor....
Kindle (eBook)
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Short Stories
Salmon and Bullheads by Lucille Bellucci
About partnerships...
Him, Her, Us by Lucille Bellucci
The needy secretary...
Singles Heaven by Lucille Bellucci
A single man on the constant prowl for women meets unexpected trouble...
Film Review: Roerend Goed by Lucille Bellucci
Published in UNCLE. It's a spoof of the New Yorker's art film reviewer, Pauline Kael. A friend who knew her sent "Roerend" to her in Connecticut, where Ms. Kael retired. Her reaction, I was told, wa...
Sufficient Unto the Day by Lucille Bellucci
Aging as a team...
A Rare Passion by Lucille Bellucci
Excerpt of romance set in Brazil...
The Murph by Lucille Bellucci
Father Malachy Murphy in Shanghai ...
Fishbone Confessions by Lucille Bellucci
meeting in-laws...
Yemanja' by Lucille Bellucci
American family in Rio de Janeiro remains unaware of peril....
Plateaus of Parana' by Lucille Bellucci
Wild flying over south of Brazil...
Flying Down to Rio by Lucille Bellucci
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire eat your hearts out...
The Country Squire by Lucille Bellucci
an easy-living dog in a small town in Curitiba, south of Brazil, ...
Signora Petronio by Lucille Bellucci
Signora Petronio finds her first love...
Retribution by Lucille Bellucci
Do you trust, or not?...
A Soochow Story by Lucille Bellucci
Lao is a corpse-mover (he works cheap, by ordering the bodies to stand up and follow him to their home villages for burial). He and a village maiden love each other but his dread profession prevents t...
The Czarina's Man by Lucille Bellucci
Of the foibles of will 'o' the wisp Count Nicolai Valentin Katcharovsky ...
Night Calls by Lucille Bellucci
Spoiled young girl matures through emotional hardship...
The Crab Season by Lucille Bellucci
Excerpt from novel, JOURNEY FROM SHANGHAI...
Ch.5, Pt. 2, Journey from Shanghai by Lucille Bellucci
Excerpt from prize-winning novel, Journey from Shanghai....
Cicadas by Lucille Bellucci
Shanghai in 1937 is under attack by the Japanese army; refugees flood the city; inside these tragedies, an English family is increasingly linked to a pair of beggars camped on the sidewalk outside the...
The Carioca Dobie Derby by Lucille Bellucci
Handsome is as handsome does--whatever that means. Then we entered our Doberman pinscher in the Rio Jockey Club dog show. Published in A Dog's World, Traveler's Tales, 1998....
Winters of the Heart by Lucille Bellucci
A singular solution to an unhappy marriage. Published in Timber Creek Review, Winter 2000....
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Poetry
The Deed by Lucille Bellucci
California Summer by Lucille Bellucci
Obi by Lucille Bellucci
Less is more...
Ballad of Yeen Wang by Lucille Bellucci
About foot binding...
LULLABY by Lucille Bellucci
Be kind to your stomach...
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Articles
Summer On a Dime by Lucille Bellucci
what to cut?...
The Promise by Lucille Bellucci
My husband's spirit visits me after death...
There is a Their There by Lucille Bellucci
the prevailing use of "their"...
Drink Recipes to Shine the Moon by Lucille Bellucci
home brew...
Meow's Way Part IV by Lucille Bellucci
And I loved her.......
Meow's Way Part III by Lucille Bellucci
On trapping mice...
Meow's Way Part II by Lucille Bellucci
The snurglefoofer as critic...
Meow's Way Part I by Lucille Bellucci
Pinky, my snurglefoofer ...
More Than Half a Life by Lucille Bellucci
Wending my way back into singlehood...
Bottles and Me by Lucille Bellucci
My mentor at 15...
Flammable Grudges by Lucille Bellucci
Revenge in Hong Kong...
Halibut Have Cheeks by Lucille Bellucci
deepsea fishing off Vaancouver...
Letter to Bill Maher by Lucille Bellucci
on the film "Religulous"...
See Naples And.... by Lucille Bellucci
That's Life...
Shanghai, Feb. 1952 by Lucille Bellucci
Starting out into the world...
Ezines that Pay by Lucille Bellucci
Ezines and online market newsletters...
Permanence is a Language by Lucille Bellucci
What language means when you haven't got it...
The Circle of Rage by Lucille Bellucci
Why it is payback time for China against its early colonialists....
Favors and Other Crimes by Lucille Bellucci
The perils to friendship of borrowing and lending....
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News
Meow's Way Redux by Lucille Bellucci
Further chronicles on Pinky, Tango, and Loaner and sundry visitors...
Nomination for the Pushcart Prize by Lucille Bellucci
Pushcart nomination!...
Publishing Pathways by Lucille Bellucci
marketing guidance on writing...
I'm on Goodreads.com by Lucille Bellucci
joined and rating books...
One more time... by Lucille Bellucci
Cicadas still kicking...
Love that Internet by Lucille Bellucci
two stories published...
On Smashwords by Lucille Bellucci
Four novels...
Snake Woman of Ipanema places again by Lucille Bellucci
She makes the horror roster...
Cicadas wins again by Lucille Bellucci
story in Shanghai...
Snake Woman of Ipanema by Lucille Bellucci
She is a finalist...
Booksigning by Lucille Bellucci
Come to Napa!...
Christmas poetry slam by Lucille Bellucci
A prize for me...
Pastiche: Stories and Such by Lucille Bellucci
Stories and essays and poetry...
Jack London Award by Lucille Bellucci
Nice recognition from California Writers Club ...
The Snake Woman of Ipanema by Lucille Bellucci
Thousands of spirit rituals all over Brazil each night. Good Candomble, evil Quimbanda. At an Umbanda ritual, Maggie Dalton commences her torturous path to Quimbanda....
Stone of Heaven" by Lucille Bellucci
"Stone of Heaven," sequel to "Journey from Shanghai," will be out in about a month. Next will be "The Pinkster, Loaner, Au Au (and Tango and Moon Cake) and Me," with lots of pictures. Pictures of what...
More Than Half a Life by Lucille Bellucci
Prize-winning essay"More Than Half a Life"
at www.conversely.com, Antidotes page. It seems to resonate with many singles; I am even receiving mail from Norway....
A Single Woman" wins! by Lucille Bellucci
After my husband died I discovered what it was like out there in male-female interactions. I was hopelessly out of date, out of it, out of everything. My experiences and observations may help some wom...
Stone of Heaven by Lucille Bellucci
Journey from Shanghai has been withdrawn from iUniverse.com for rewriting, though it is still available at other online bookstores. In the meantime, the sequel, Stone of Heaven, is complete and waitin...
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Links
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| Lucille Bellucci, Author
The Snake Woman of Ipanema and other current novels are featured on my Website. Snake is a hair-raising tale of the occult set in Brazil. In paper at Amazon.com, etc. and as e-book at Smashwords.com.
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Lucille Bellucci, Author
Titles can be ordered from amazon.com, etc. and as e-books from Smashwords.com.
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The Year of the Rat
The Year of the Rat, set in Shanghai, China, is war/historical, the takeover by the Chinese communists. Love, desperation, survival, are Maria Conti's story. Available in paper at Amazon.com, etc. and as e-book at Smashwords.com.
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A RARE PASSION
A Rare Passion is a romance set in Brazil. It is very erotic yet tender. Available in Kindle at the retail websites.
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Additional information
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| My talk/signing of The Snake Woman of Ipanema having been a big draw on March 7, Barnes & Noble in Berkeley, CA invited me back to present The Year of the Rat on October 10, 7:30 pm. I also have a gig on July 6 in Oakland where the cultural events organizer will intersperse famous authors with unknowns like me. I have been allotted five minutes, but that just means I must concentrate on Snake Woman and Year of the Rat, without 55 minutes more of anecdotes. Other bookings in the Bay Area and elsewhere will follow. AOL will feature me on a live chat soon. My novel Journey from Shanghai will be out late this year.
Newest book will be a little one about cats, titled "Meow's Way." I may post it here soon before publication.
A few words about my 15 years in Brazil are in
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