History Lesson: Bittettos

In honor of the review of Cosa Nostra: The Truce, I thought I would give my Lovelies (and whatever the equivalent is in RK's world) a little insight into some of the characters.

I met RK in 2002 through some guy who had read a fan fiction I wrote and stuck online someplace. It was based off of that old TV mini-series V and V: The Final Battle from the 80's. That is the series that introduced me to Robert Englund's work and, frankly, I thought he did his best work there, not in Nightmare on Elm Street. I can't even remember the name of the fan fiction anymore, but no doubt it is still online someplace. Anyway, this guy approaches me about writing in a serial fan fiction and bringing my characters into the storyline. He introduces me to RK and it's off to the races …

My first post was called “Gem” and was posted on Friday October 25, 2002 7:48pm. That post introduced the character that is now Emerald Whelan and her son who was and remains Ty Bittetto. If you remember the V series, then you know that there were humans and there were the lizard-like aliens. Ty and Emerald were and remain human.

Sticking to my original characters, I will now move on to Vincent D'Simone, who was Vincent D'Antoni in the fan fiction. No matter what his surname is, that boy is hot as hell. The final post to the list involves Vincent and Kira and was written Monday December 12, 2005 1:42 pm.

Three years writing a continuing fan fiction.

RK remained friends, and would many times go back over the archives, which I obsessively stored and still have to this day. At one point RK suggested that we do what we needed to do to make the story a novel, because the story we created rocked. I groaned, but agreed.

Took us over five years, but we did it!

Because the original story belonged to someone else, we had to change aspects of it. First of all, everyone became an Earthling. That was a no-brainer, as was simply turning it into a Mafia war. As Ty was already Italian, we kept the Italian's in the war. In the original fan fiction he was mixed with African-American, and I agreed that should change to fit the mafioso leanings of the new plotline. My fans and friends know my love of the Irish in general and redheads in particular. And so Gem/Emerald became a red haired, green-eyed Irishwoman.

For the record, there are more Cosa Nostra stories in the works.

Hope you enjoyed this little “history lesson”. Tune in next time, when I regale you with the history of I don't know what yet.