Author Interview: Somewhere Between Rome and Home

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A Conversation with Author John Reizer

Readers often enjoy learning about the inspiration behind a story and the author’s creative process. We sat down with John Reizer to discuss his contemporary romance novella, Somewhere Between Rome and Home, and what it was like stepping away from science fiction to tell a heartfelt story about unexpected connections.


The Interview Questions and Answers

Q: Somewhere Between Rome and Home is quite different from your usual science fiction novels. What inspired you to write a contemporary romance?

John Reizer: Most of my writing has been in science fiction, so I wanted to challenge myself by trying something new. Contemporary romance allowed me to focus on relationships, character development, and everyday life. It was an opportunity to tell a story driven entirely by the people in it rather than by futuristic technology or larger-than-life events.


Q: Where did the idea for the story come from?

John Reizer: The idea started with a simple question: What would happen if two strangers missed their flights home and ended up spending unexpected time together in one of the most beautiful cities in the world? That single thought became the foundation for the entire novella.


Q: Why did you choose Rome as the setting?

John Reizer: Rome felt like the perfect location for this story. It has incredible history, culture, and beauty. It also encourages people to slow down and explore; for Nathan and Stephanie, being stranded there becomes less of a problem and more of an adventure filled with unexpected romantic opportunities.


Q: What interested you most about the characters Nathan Wells and Stephanie Bentley?

John Reizer: I liked the idea of bringing together two people with very different outlooks on life. Nathan is organized and prefers structure. Stephanie is more spontaneous and adventurous. Watching those differences gradually become strengths within their relationship was one of the most enjoyable parts of writing the story.


Q: Was writing romance different from writing science fiction?

John Reizer: Definitely. Science fiction often focuses on world-building and big concepts. Romance requires a stronger focus on emotions, conversations, and personal growth. The challenge was making the relationship feel natural and believable from beginning to end.


Q: What was your favorite part of writing this novella?

John Reizer: I enjoyed writing the dialogue scenes the most. Those moments allowed the characters to reveal who they are. Many of my favorite scenes involve Nathan and Stephanie simply talking, sharing experiences, and getting to know one another.


Q: Did anything surprise you during the writing process?

John Reizer: I discovered that many of the storytelling principles I use in science fiction work just as well in romance. I believe readers will connect with interesting characters and honest emotions regardless of the genre. That was a valuable lesson to reinforce as a writer, now and moving forward.


Q: What themes did you hope to explore in the story?

John Reizer: One of the main themes is that life doesn’t always go according to plan. Nathan and Stephanie both begin the story frustrated by circumstances they cannot control. Over time, they learn that unexpected detours sometimes lead to the most meaningful experiences.


Q: What do you hope readers will take away from the novella?

John Reizer: I hope readers come away with a smile and a sense of optimism. The story is a reminder that opportunities can appear when we least expect them and that some of life’s best moments happen when our carefully prepared plans fall apart.


Q: Do you plan to write more contemporary romance in the future?

John Reizer: I think there’s a good chance. Writing Somewhere Between Rome and Home was a rewarding experience, and it showed me how much I enjoy writing character-driven stories. While science fiction will always be a big part of what I do, I certainly wouldn’t rule out returning to contemporary romance.


Q: Finally, how would you describe Somewhere Between Rome and Home in one sentence?

John Reizer: It’s a story about two people who miss a flight home and discover that sometimes life’s unexpected delays lead us exactly where we need to be.


About the Book

Somewhere Between Rome and Home follows architect Nathan Wells and teacher Stephanie Bentley, two Americans who miss separate flights home from Rome and find themselves stranded in the city for five extra days. What begins as an inconvenient travel delay develops into an unforgettable journey of friendship, self-discovery, and romance.


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“Anyone who enjoys romance, chance meetings, and tales about two people finding each other at just the right time should pick this one up.“

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Between 2020 and 2023, Amazon Wanted Readers To Know That My “Fictional” Story, Plandemic, Contained Dangerous and Misleading Information About COVID-19 Vaccines

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Dr. John Reizer

Between 2020 and 2023, my novella, Plandemic, was, in my opinion, widely censored online, and Amazon placed asterisks and exclamation marks next to the publication.

When the book first launched, one-star reviews kept coming. Then, 5-star, more positive reviews started coming in. After climbing from a one-star to a 4-star average and earning over a hundred ratings, the ratings suddenly stopped coming in, and many were erased. From then on, the book stopped selling copies, and no one ever commented on the story again on Amazon.

Notice the (! *) marks alongside the book

The exclamation and asterisk marks posted by Amazon on a publication clearly labeled and marketed as fiction were mind-bending, to say the least.

The asterisk mark included a message encouraging readers to visit the CDC website because the product they were about to purchase and download, in Amazon’s view, contained misleading information about the nonexistent COVID-19 virus and bioweapons disguised as vaccines.

Perhaps Amazon was concerned that my story outlined the entire pandemic script in the summer of 2020, long before the vaccines were created, according to officialdom.

After Plandemic was released in 2020, people contacted me and explained that they experienced problems downloading the book from Amazon. Other readers, there were hundreds of them, left reviews that never got published.

I don’t doubt my story was broadly censored. When I made the book available as a free PDF that readers could download directly from the NoFakeNews website, many thousands of copies were downloaded.

To this day, the book has received no additional ratings or comments on Amazon. The asterisk and exclamation marks have since been removed.

What was considered (my novella) an outlandish conspiracy theory in 2020 is now the core hypothesis of many critical thinkers about what transpired during the world pandemic years.


Written in 2020

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Sometimes fiction is not an escape from reality, but rather the only way to talk about it!

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The Smart Cities of Tomorrow

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Dr. John Reizer

The smart cities of tomorrow might look different from the traditional models we know today. Buildings, roads, vehicles, utilities, and public services could all soon be connected to a central computer network.

In these cities, a digital currency policy could become the only way citizens pay for food, transportation, housing, and other necessities. Unlike traditional cash systems, digital money could potentially be distributed and programmed with very specific rules. In a future system, those in power could freeze or turn off a person’s digital funds if that person fails to follow certain government medical recommendations. Think vaccines!

Surveillance could become even more a part of our everyday lives than it is today. Cameras, sensors, facial recognition systems, phones, vehicles, and other devices could constantly collect information about where people go and what they do. Of course, officialdom might justify these technologies as necessary to improve public safety, transportation efficiency, or city services.

The same technologies that make a city more convenient could also give those in power unprecedented control. Hypothetically, if money, identification, transportation, healthcare, and surveillance were all connected to the same digital infrastructure, losing access to one system could affect many parts of a person’s daily life. Think about the consequences of that situation for a moment.

The central question isn’t simply whether smart cities are technologically possible. It is how much control society is willing to give the systems that run them and what protections would exist for people who disagree with those elites in power.


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The Truth Written Through Fiction

Dr. John Reizer

In 2019, I wrote The Target List, a short novel about a breakthrough medical technology that could drastically alter the treatment of cancers in the human avatar, transforming modern-day medicine into something previously unheard of. The fictional instrument in my story was called WAND (Wave-Altering-Nanoparticle-Disrupter), which miraculously turned cancerous human tissues into healthy ones in a matter of seconds through advanced quantum physics techniques.

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Of course, this wasn’t appreciated by Big Pharma, and the creative team behind WAND was placed on a hit list, or as I called it in the title of the novel, The Target List!

In my story, I described another invention that the main protagonist, Clyde Daniel, invented before creating the WAND. It was a needleless blood testing device that would have eliminated the current method of blood testing in labs worldwide.

I believe both fictional technologies I described in my novel already exist in real life.

Here are a few paragraphs from my novel, written in the summer of 2019:


From The Target List Novel (2019)

“The tall, blond-haired physician with prominent-looking cheekbones had declared an all-out war against his medical colleagues and the entire medical profession.

Years earlier, Clyde had made an impressive contribution to his field by inventing a new tool that helped to analyze blood in patients without having to actually draw blood from them.

Initially, the technology had been warmly received by his peers. But the warm reception gradually turned cold once the pharmaceutical companies realized the loss of income they’d incur if Clyde’s idea was embraced by the industry and became commonplace in hospitals worldwide.

There were lots of profits in drawing and testing blood conventionally. Medical equipment and lab testing materials were worth billions of dollars annually, and Big Pharma was not in business to lose money. Clyde’s invention might have been a great way to help patients while preventing the spread of blood-borne pathogens through the practice of traditional blood-capturing techniques, but the big boys running the medical industrial empire didn’t appreciate new technologies that decreased overall revenues.

When the powers that be, for all intents and purposes, buried Clyde’s amazing invention in some filing cabinet in a dark cellar, he got really angry. It wasn’t too long after that that he decided to embark on a project that would forever transform the profession of medicine.”


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Needleless Blood Glucose Testing

“In Development (Not Yet on Market)” Sure!🤣

I’m laughing at this point because if my memory serves me correctly, weren’t there a helluva lot of mRNA vaccines that were released to the public realm-wide without FDA approval?

Just how long do you suppose needleless blood glucose monitoring technology has been available and hidden to protect conventional lab testing profits? Can you imagine how much money would be lost if and when this technology is released, or should I write re-released? 🤣

Then there’s this…

Do you remember the Elizabeth Holmes story?

In 2003, Elizabeth Holmes founded the now-defunct company, Theranos. Holmes, a former biotechnology entrepreneur, became a multi-billionaire when her company allegedly developed a methodology able to perform a wide range of diagnostic procedures with a single drop of blood.

Was Elizabeth Holmes a scientific fraudster as claimed by the US Courts or a Maverick who got in the way of a seven billion dollar a year blood testing industry?

It’s a good question, wouldn’t you say?

In Theranos, we saw a company and a technology that might have pissed off a lot of Big Pharma corporations.

There is no way, in my opinion, that Holmes’ technology could have gone as far as it did with so many mega investors on board unless it absolutely worked. I believe she was a victim of Big Pharma.

Additionally, how much money do you suppose Uncle Sam collects in annual income taxes from the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical lab testing industry? Do you really think the government wants to lose that revenue stream?

When this sort of thing happens in novels and movies (Target List) it’s looked upon by the public as entertainment. But when something like Theranos happens in real life, it’s not very entertaining in the eyes of the multinational pharmaceutical corporations that are literally and figuratively out for blood.

If the US government is so damn interested in putting a halt to scientific fraud, it might want to begin by examining the baloney sandwich (PCR technology used to diagnose infectious diseases) that has been served in the medical cafeteria for multiple decades.

PCR technology can not and does not diagnose bacteria and viral diseases in humans and animals. This claim about PCR was made by the technology’s inventor, Dr. Kary Mullis before he mysteriously died of pneumonia a few months before the world plandemic was written into existence and unleashed in 2020.

In COVID-19 we have witnessed the biggest scientific fraud in modern medicine. Every confirmed case of COVID-19 has been predicated on false-positive diagnostic tests that have originated from PCR technology.

How is it possible that the scientific fraud that occurred before, during, and after the pandemic is still allowed to go unchallenged, yet labeled “following the science,” while Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos are taken down and permanently silenced?

I watched the Elizabeth Holmes drama (The Dropout) on Hulu, and it’s been written to portray her as a fraudster. Whether or not Holmes was a criminal or a genuine threat to Big Pharma, I will leave it to your imagination.

I believe Elizabeth Holmes’ biggest mistake was trying to steal money from crooks (Big Pharma), and if there’s one thing you better never do, it’s try to steal money and profits from established Big Time crooks!


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Dr. John Reizer

Long before the words Fake News became part of our everyday vocabulary, I created NoFakeNews with a simple purpose: to explore subjects that I believe are often overlooked, suppressed, dismissed, or poorly explained by conventional sources of information.

From the time we are young, we are given explanations about the world around us. We learn what is considered real, what is considered impossible, what we are supposed to believe, and what questions we are encouraged to ask.

But what if some of those explanations are incomplete?

What if there are important parts of our history, science, institutions, technology, culture, and existence that deserve to be examined from a different perspective?

That is where NoFakeNews begins.

This website is for people willing to look beyond conventional explanations and examine ideas that mainstream news organizations, educational institutions, governments, and other established authorities may not discuss openly.

The material presented here will not be for everyone. Some of what you read may challenge your understanding of the world. Some articles may seem unusual, controversial, or even unbelievable. Some readers will undoubtedly describe certain ideas presented here as conspiracy theories.

That is okay.

An idea should not be dismissed automatically just because it is unpopular, unconventional, or hard to believe.

At the same time, readers should not automatically accept something as true simply because they encounter it on this website.

Think! Question! Investigate!

NoFakeNews encourages readers to examine information for themselves, consider the evidence, compare competing explanations, and reach their own conclusions.

Some subjects discussed here may involve documented facts. Others may involve disputed interpretations, alternative explanations, unanswered questions, or theories that challenge commonly accepted narratives. The purpose is to put those ideas on the table and encourage people to examine them rather than dismissing them without investigation.

You may agree with some of what you find here. You may strongly disagree with other material. You may even encounter something that makes you reconsider something you have believed your entire life. That is part of the journey.

Our readers come from many different countries and backgrounds. They share a curiosity about the world and a desire to explore information beyond the boundaries of conventional media.

We live in a world where our perception of reality is heavily influenced by the information constantly presented to us.

News organizations, governments, corporations, educational institutions, social media platforms, religious organizations, and countless other sources shape how we understand our existence.

NoFakeNews is another voice in that conversation.

If you are comfortable accepting only information that fits within the reality you have already been given, this website may not be for you. But if you are willing to question assumptions, examine uncomfortable possibilities, explore alternative explanations, and decide for yourself what makes sense, then you are in the right place.

Thanks for reading, and welcome to NoFakeNews!


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Are you planning a romantic trip to Italy?

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Are you planning a romantic getaway to Italy? Did you know there’s a travel advisory for Americans traveling to this European destination?

Truth be told, a level 2 travel advisory for Italy has been in effect since May 23, 2025, but it was recently updated to warn Americans to be extra vigilant when traveling there.


“The U.S. Department of State has updated its travel advisory warning for Italy. Although the threat level remains at two, the information associated with the warning has changed.”

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Can anyone think of a logical reason why Americans would suddenly be more at risk from terrorists in Italy and why the travel advisory needed to be updated by the government?

Isn’t it a sad day when traveling to somewhere like Italy becomes less of a romantic adventure and more of an exercise in testing one’s survival skills?

I don’t know about you, but I like thinking of Italy as the former (a romantic destination) versus the latter (a terrorist hotspot). What about you?


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About the Book

Nathan Wells is an architect from Boston, Massachusetts, who prefers schedules and carefully thought-out decisions. So, when transportation delays cause him to miss his flight home from Rome, he sees it as little more than an inconvenient nuisance.

Stephanie Bentley couldn’t be more different. A high school English teacher from Seattle, Washington, she misses a different flight back to the States because she simply lost track of time within a small Italian bookstore. Optimistic, spontaneous, and endlessly curious, she’s exactly the kind of person Nathan would never expect to cross paths with.

With no flights available for five days, both unexpectedly find themselves staying at the same small hotel in the heart of Rome.

A shared breakfast leads to a morning walk, and the morning turns into an afternoon. Soon they’re walking through hidden streets, discovering neighborhood cafés, getting lost on purpose, and sharing the kinds of conversations that make time seem to disappear.

As the days and hours pass, a friendship forms and grows into something quite unexpected. Via heartfelt laughter, genuine conversations, and surprising adventures, while overlooking the city, Nathan and Stephanie begin to realize that the most significant emotional bonds often develop when life suddenly deviates from the route you planned.

But their extra time in Rome is coming to an end. Soon, flights home, distant cities, and separate lives begin drawing closer, and both must face the question they’ve been avoiding: What happens after this?

Set against the classic backdrop of Rome, Italy, Somewhere Between Rome and Home is a gentle, uplifting contemporary romance about chance encounters and the remarkable possibilities hidden inside life’s unforeseen detours.

Sometimes the flight you miss turns out to be the journey you were meant to take.


The Truth Told Through Fiction

The Big Pharma Conspiracy Movie

Target List (2023)

After announcing a ground-breaking cancer cure, five members of the research team are targeted by an assassin hired by big pharma. When two researchers escape the attack, they soon find themselves framed for the crime and on the killer’s target list.

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“Target List is done with great attention to cinematic details and climactic maturation of the plot. The topic is timely. The dialogue is good and fits the characters. The action scenes are minimalistic but contextually relevant and come with a feel of action usually seen in TV movies.”

-Indie Clips Magazine  – June 2026


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Are you looking for a quick, interesting read?

It’s vacation time, and summer is winding down. Are you going on a beach trip or headed on a flight somewhere else and don’t have the time to invest in a full-length novel?

Read The One-Hour Diner…

Read The Missing…

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Give one of my novellas a try. They’re all quick reads with fascinating plots designed to be devoured in a few hours or less.

Happy reading!

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Upcoming Fiction from John Reizer

Truth Engines (September 1st)

Truth Engines is a bold collection of science fiction shorts that acknowledges the hidden realities currently affecting humanity. Blending imagination with clever storytelling, these writings explore a wide range of important subjects currently impacting all human beings.

The Bike Courier (October 31st

Hunted by an all-seeing surveillance network and powerful forces desperate to recover three mysterious data chips he is carrying, Dave Morrison, the bike courier, is forced into a futuristic city’s hidden underground tunnel system in an attempt to stay alive.

Somewhere Between Rome and Home (2027)

“Somewhere Between Rome and Home” is a contemporary romance novella by John Reizer that will be released on February 14th, 2027.

The story follows two characters, architect Nathan Wells and high-school English teacher Stephanie Bentley, who become stranded in Rome and stay at the same small hotel after missing two different flight connections back to the States. A shared breakfast sparks an unexpected romantic connection between the two.


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