{"id":8421,"date":"2013-12-01T15:53:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T20:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T23:09:48","slug":"the-writer-in-the-white-coat-78-alumnus-pursues-longstanding-dream-to-be-an-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8421","title":{"rendered":"The writer in the white coat: \u201978 alumnus pursues longstanding dream to be an author"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8423\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Robert-LaCosta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8423\" alt=\"Robert-LaCosta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Robert-LaCosta.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert LaCosta \u201978<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Robert LaCosta \u201978<\/strong> spent years building his audiology business, Hear for You, into a multimillion-dollar enterprise. \u201cBut I was always a writer disguised in a lab coat,\u201d he explained. Yet between spending time in the exam room, developing the company and raising a family, LaCosta says he didn\u2019t have much time to write.<\/p>\n<p>So after being offered a large buyout in 2009, LaCosta shed his lab gear, sharpened his pencils and launched his own communications company, No Reputation Communications (NRC). Today, he represents and markets himself as a full-time writer.<\/p>\n<p>Once a writer for the College\u2019s student-run newspaper, <em>The Signal,<\/em> LaCosta now writes inspirational fiction, weaving tales and truth into stories containing glints of wisdom and fact. Through allegory, symbolism and other literary devices, he puts together stories, songs and novels whose meanings go deeper than the surface plot, providing the reader with a profound message.<\/p>\n<p>In his first two books, <em>Like Father, Like Son<\/em> and <em>The King\u2019s Favorite Book<\/em>, LaCosta weaves in themes of religion, examining a spiritual relationship with the Judeo-Christian God by comparing it to physical human relationships.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent work, <em>Gamaliel\u2019s Advice<\/em>, is a historical fiction chronicling the 24-year long Mount Soledad lawsuit that ordered the removal of a cross-shaped veteran\u2019s memorial in San Diego, CA. LaCosta has also written a screenplay of<em> Gamaliel\u2019s Advice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When speaking of the future, LaCosta is optimistic, looking forward to a time when he can help other writers. \u201cI love the idea of bringing really wholesome literature and songs to our culture,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m hoping that as my writing gets out there, I can start using NRC to market other emerging writers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert LaCosta writes inspirational fiction, weaving tales and truth into stories containing glints of wisdom and fact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":8423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2013"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}