Rob Costelloe
Rob Costelloe was born in Philadelphia, Rob started writing fiction at age eight. These were short stories written for the thrill of approval he received from his highly supportive parents. His family moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, when he was an adolescent, and even though he received high grades for any story he submitted, his teachers never encouraged his work, apparently because of its science fiction genre. After high school, his writing interests changed. While attending Drexel University, he composed a series of novellas, most of them love stories set against the backdrop of World War II. After college, besides pursuing an engineering career in the Gulf Coast region, he wrote more stories, a teeth-cutting, first novel, and a little poetry. By now, his interest focused on the question of what romantic love can achieve in people’s lives. To pursue this theme, he studied the work of many authors and filmmakers. In 2005, he read a well crafted love story by a best selling authoress whose denouement was a reversal so suddenly despairing that he felt outrage on behalf of the novel’s readers. Within twenty-four hours, he was writing Coinage of Commitment, a novel whose first draft was produced in a four month blaze of sleepless effort. Now, for all those readers wondering what level love can soar to, the finished work is proudly brought to you by Saga Books. |
Coinage of Commitment
Synopsis: Wayne and Nancy have separate adolescent experiences that both inspire and confuse the romantic ambitions they feel drawn to. During the turbulent 1960' s, they meet while he is attending blue-collar Drexel, and she is at neighboring Ivy League Penn. Though irresistibly drawn to each other, they must overcome obstacles posed by the class, financial, and religious differences that separate them, as well as opposition from both families, and later, a twist of fate that will be the cruelest test of all. Can they reach the goal they seek? Can they overcome time s downward pulling inertia? Soaring and poignant, Coinage of Commitment is dedicated to all those readers who ever wondered, perhaps with whimsy, perhaps with hope, just what is the level that love can possibly reach? |