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Year: 2025

Venice Beach Psalms – A Peter Blair Mystery

posted Dec 12, 2025 by Tom Fasano

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Chapter One

This is an audio rendition of the first chapter of Venice Beach Psalms—the first book in my planned Peter Blair Mystery series. The video mimics a typewriter effect synchronized with the voice-over.

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Typewriter City Streets Art Project

posted Dec 11, 2025 by Tom Fasano

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Here’s a wonderful public art project from Everett, Washington, that brings vintage manual typewriters out of collectors’ homes and onto the streets. This was from eleven years ago, but the ideas are fresh.

“Word on the Street” placed ten manual typewriters at locations around downtown Everett during the summer. Each typewriter table was custom painted by local artists celebrating literary themes—Maya Angelou, favorite books, childhood fairy tales. Passersby were invited to sit down and type responses to daily questions posed by the city’s librarians.


It’s a brilliant way to introduce a new generation to the tactile pleasure of hitting keys and hearing that bell ring when you reach the end of a line. Some responses were displayed in storefront windows; others shared on social media.

This is what happens when a community values both the literary arts and hands-on creative expression.

Graphic Novel Series

posted Dec 5, 2025 by Tom Fasano

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I’m working on the seventh volume of my New Testament Verse-by-Verse Graphic Novel series. The video above is a quick flip-through of Philippians, the second book in the series. I started with the shorter epistles and will eventually make my way to the much longer gospels—assuming my hands cooperate. I’ve already had carpal tunnel surgery on my right wrist and still need it on my left.

My working method is a bit of a hybrid. I start by inking the bold black lines on Bristol board, then I scan the pages and add color and backgrounds in Photoshop. I spent many years as a graphic artist, so I still rely on those old skills—like using a light table to speed up background work. It’s tough on the hands, and I just hope mine hold up.