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The
first time
I met David J Castello I
thought, "now this is a different
kind of cat!" It was in
October 2006 onboard a party boat
cruising Florida's Intracoastal
Waterway one evening during a social
event at that year's T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
East conference in Hollywood.
I had first bumped into David's
equally engaging brother Michael
and after we got to know each other
Michael pointed to a table
where one guy appeared to be holding
court with everyone else
listening intently to what he had to
say. Michael said, "that's my
brother David, you should meet him
too."
So,
I walked over to the table thinking
this guy must really know
domains to keep these veteran
investors so enthralled. But when I
got within earshot I was stunned
to hear David giving an engrossing account
of key moments in World War II
history! I had to look around
to make sure I hadn't gotten on the
wrong boat - this isn't the kind of thing
you normally hear domain people
talking about at a domain
conference!
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Author
David J Castello
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I
was certainly intrigued and
after introducing myself learned
that David was a man of many
passions including World War II
history, cigars, music and literature
to name just a few. His mother later
told me she always thought he would
grow up to be a college professor
and he certainly could have been a
good one. Now, years later, almost
all of our readers know David's
story well including he and
Michael's success in our business
with Castello
Cities Internet Network
as well as David's return to the music
industry as manager and drummer
with fast rising rock trio BREE
who is just back from their latest UK
tour - the third there for the
band this year, plus a publicity
trek David made with the trio's
namesake, lead singer, guitarist,
songwriter and David's wife, Bree
Castello.
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Once
they got back home to Nashville
David decided it was time to
put a bow on a project he
has been quietly working on
for years - a
mind-bending novel called
The Diary of an Immortal
(1945-1959) that was
just released today. You can
get a copy at Amazon in paperback
or as a Kindle
download. If you
want to get the paperback
and have it autographed by
David I will give you an
address to do that at the
end of this article.
The
book tells the story of
21-year-old U.S. Army combat
medic Steven Ronson,
a man who escapes the
constant inundation and
threat of death in World War
Two after he discovers an immortality
formula designed for Adolf
Hitler during the
liberation of the Dachau
concentration camp in April
of 1945. When Ronson begins
consuming the formula
himself a series of amazing
things happen as his story
unfolds.
David
told me, "I’ve been
working on it for 20
years and knew it was
ready. It first came to
me in a dream
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that
was so bizarre I immediately
wrote it down. Over the
years, I kept returning to
it every time I would have
another dream and I felt
like I was being taken on a
cosmic journey. I began to
get very emotionally
attached to the characters
in my book. Sometimes
my dreams were not kind to
them, but I went with it. The
genre is magical realism
such as Steven King’s The
Green Mile or F
Scott Fitzgerald’s The
Curious Case Of Benjamin
Button. If a reader
is a fan of that style there
is a good chance they will
enjoy The Diary of an
Immortal (1945-1959)." |
"The
front cover of my book is the 17th
century monastic medical school atop
Chakpori Hill in 1900. The back
cover is what it looks like today.
The Chinese destroyed it during the
1959 Tibetan Uprising. The
real reason they were so intent on
destroying such a benign structure
with artillery is covered in my
book. I doubt I’ll ever get a
Chinese visa again after this comes
out!" David laughed.
While
this is David's first book writing
is nothing new for him.
"I wrote my first
newspaper article when I was
nine and was going to
major in journalism at the University
of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill and I visited
the campus. However, Michael
and I had a band together
and we decided to relocate
from our hometown in Boynton
Beach, Florida to New
York City. Between BREE,
CCIN (Castello Cities
Internet Network) and The
Diary of an Immortal
(1945-1959) I’ve
got my hands full and I put
up a quick site at www.DavidCastello.com that
has links to all three."
Now,
as I promised, if you want
to get a print copy of the
book at Amazon and have it personalized,
just send your copy to this
address and
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BREE
performing at Manchester
Academy at the end of
their latest UK tour.
Bree on lead guitar, Mayrk
McNeely on standup bass
and David J Castello on
drums. |
David
will sign it and have it
shipped back to you (now if
we could just get him to
include that immortality
formula!):
David
J Castello
c/o Werewolf Publishing
533 Church Street, Suite 356
Nashville, TN 37219
I
just got a copy today and am
looking forward to diving
into it!
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