{"id":1946,"date":"2017-10-06T11:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexdemille.com\/nelson\/newsletter-1017\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:44:13","slug":"newsletter-1017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexdemille.com\/nelson\/newsletter-1017\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nl-banner\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alexdemille.com\/nelson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/a-note-from-nelson-banner.jpg\" alt=\"A Note from Nelson\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alexdemille.com\/nelson\/the-cuban-affair\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 10px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/alexdemille.com\/nelson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/nelson-audiobook.png\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great news! <em><a href=\"https:\/\/alexdemille.com\/nelson\/the-cuban-affair\/\">The Cuban Affair<\/a> <\/em>will debut on the October 8 <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/best-sellers\/2017\/10\/08\/hardcover-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Sellers List<\/a> at #1! Thanks to all my readers who have put me on the top.<\/p>\n<p>And to show my appreciation, I&#8217;m having an <a href=\"https:\/\/alexdemille.com\/nelson\/newsletters\/\">October Newsletter Contest<\/a> giving away 10 Unabridged Audiobook CDs of <em>The Cuban Affair <\/em>to 10 separate winners. Contest ends October 31.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 9 is Columbus Day and I\u2019m marching in the New York City Parade along with over a hundred other Italian-American authors who\u2019ve been invited by this year\u2019s Grand Marshal, Len Riggio, Chairman and Founder of Barnes &amp; Noble bookstores.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of recent controversy surrounding Christopher Columbus and there are those who say we should not honor him. To those who say this, I say, \u201cVaffanculo!\u201d And keep your hands off my holiday. <em>Capice?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Columbus Day is also Thanksgiving Day in Canada, and I wish my Canadian friends and family a happy, healthy and safe celebration.<\/p>\n<p>October 31 is Halloween. The kids love this day, and it\u2019s become a very big and commercial holiday since I was a kid when we wore homemade costumes. The politically correct crowd is upset about \u201ccultural appropriation,\u201d meaning dressing like an American Indian or a Mexican bandito or something \u2013 unless you actually <em>are<\/em> an American Indian or a Mexican bandito. To those well-meaning, but misguided misfits I say, Dress like the Scarecrow; he had no brain and neither do you.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m on publicity tour for <em>The Cuban Affair<\/em>, so this is a short Newsletter. Have a wonderful Columbus Day and Halloween, and a great October.<\/p>\n<p>See you in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nl-signature\">Sincerely,<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alexdemille.com\/nelson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/nelson-demille-signature.png\" alt=\"Nelson DeMille signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news! The Cuban Affair will debut on the October 8 New York Times Best Sellers List at #1! Thanks to all my readers who have put me on the top. And to show my appreciation, I&#8217;m having an October Newsletter Contest giving away 10 Unabridged Audiobook CDs of The Cuban Affair to 10 separate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>October 2017 - Nelson DeMille<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"October 2017 - Nelson DeMille\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Great news! 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