http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/ The Art of WHAT IF en-us 2010-03-06T20:05:21+00:00 Publishers Marketplace Points of View by JAY LILLIE hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/images/PM_rssimg.gif http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20100308150518 I’m in a good mood today. A dear old friend of mine sent me a video recording off Blogger featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City with Andrea Bocelli singing The Lords Prayer. It will make your day. There’s lots to worry about . . . if you’re a worryer or out of a job. I’m not either, but I’ve been on the beach a couple of times in my life. It always happens at the worst times. When you’ve a large family to feed or children about to enter or wishing to stay in college. A ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2010-03-08T20:05:18+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20100226113122 There are four key women in my new novel, JUSTICE . . . five if you include the President, but her role is off camera. The most interesting may be the character of Mari. She comes to New Orleans from the Island of Martinique in 1959 to work in the home of one of the most powerful families there. She is remarkably beautiful, and has a presence that for several years enables her to rise above the issues facing a black woman in the South in the 1950’s. Her daughter, Joan, has some of those ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2010-02-26T16:31:22+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20100125123250 “When did you first see the light in JUSTICE?” we asked author Jay Lillie, standing in front of the Supreme Court Building on Capitol Hill. “About page 326,” he said. He knew that’s not what we meant. We laughed. “That’s pretty near the end of the story?” He nodded and smiled. “The light was always there. The fuss about President Obama’s birth certificate came along much later.” “So what’s the core message of JUSTICE?” “It’s fiction, a novel, a darn good murder mystery, and it takes place ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2010-01-25T17:32:50+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20070924143948 A friend of mine sent me an e-mail on the condition I not tell anyone. No one has heard from him now in almost two months, and I’m constrained to break my pledge of silence in the hope that someone may have seen him alive. A recent picture is attached. Here's what my friend wrote: “The corked bottle of Cuban rum that floated onto the Gulf Stream shore was empty. I had to break the bottle to retrieve the short letter from Fidel Castro that was inside. Roughly translated it reads as follows: ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2007-09-24T18:39:48+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20070617060852 Sometimes the truth is hard to come by. In Cuba a couple of years ago in the company of a group of North American lawyers, I came across a 19 year old MAN who was complaining about the U.S. embargo against Americans doing business with Cubans in Cuba. I sympathized, but pointed to Fidel Castro’s repressive regime for the embargo’s rationale. “You’re a lawyer,” he said, “and you tell me that?” As I nodded a “yes,” I could see him getting up the nerve to make his point. “Would you like to ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2007-06-17T10:08:52+00:00