June 25. A Fun Book Launch Event of Beyond the Bukubuk Tree, with Lance Ringel at the lovely Willa Cather hall, Jefferson Market Library.

Dear friends, From left to right: Me, Lance Ringel, Stephanie Cowell and Chuck Muckle. A big crowd, terrific questions and post-talk discussion. Lance’s partner, actor and singer Chuck Muckle, sang a WW I song to conclude the event. The moderator  was acclaimed author Stephanie Cowell. Lance Ringel’s novel, Flower of Iowa, features two infantry privates …

Thanks to Non-Fiction Author Alison McMahan for reviewing Beyond the Bukubuk Tree in her Substack Newsletter. She covers Lark Force and Rabaul’s indigenous Tolai with thorough and thoughtful comments. And of course, her enthusiastic recommendation is thrilling.

Dear Friends, I met Alison McMahan through the Historical Novel Society New York Chapter, when her non-fiction book and documentary on one of the USA’s first female film makers, Alice Guy Blanche, won wide acclaim. I am so grateful for her review of Beyond. There’s nothing more encouraging to an author, after the years of …

Thrilling 5-Star Review of Beyond from Readers Favorites a week before Book Release.

https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/beyond-the-bukubuk-tree Beyond the Bukubuk Tree A World War II Novel of Love and Loss by Loretta Golderg Fiction – Military 395 Pages Reviewed on 06/10/2024    Click here to learn about the free offer(s) from this author. BOOK REVIEW Reviewed by Grant Leishman for Readers’ Favorite Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and …

Trailer Tim Ridgway, publisher of MadeGlobal Publishing, made for the Book Launch of Beyond the Bukubuk Tree June 25.

Dear Friends, Tim used sounds of the garamut (slit log drums) I recorded in Rabaul, courtesy of garamut players who gave me permission to record a traditional message meaning Gather around, there’s trouble coming. Being a musician himself, Tim mixed drum sounds with his own sound effects. Credits to the players and owners of the …

First Industry Review of Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss

Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss by Loretta Goldberg MadeGlobal Publishing   book review by Kate Robinson   “Life… was a mystery, often full of malice.” Like most gay men of the early to mid-twentieth century, Dr. Jake Friedman’s homosexuality is explained away as an embarrassing “tendency.” Thrilled …

DO MERMAIDS EXIST? HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN 1867 CHARLESTON KNEW THEY DID. THEY BELIEVED A CAPTURED MERMAID YEARNING FOR FREEDOM WAS CAUSING THE STORMS BATTERING THEM. JOY E. HELD’S ENCHANTING HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT THIS SINGULAR EVENT.

Joy, welcome back to my blog. The Mermaid Riot is quite a change from Writer Wellness. What was the genesis of this novel? Hi, Loretta! Thanks for the invite. I’m thrilled to share a little about the backstory of The Mermaid Riot (FireandIceYA, 2024). https://www.fireandiceya.com/authors/joyeheld/mermaid.html I write steamy adult historical fiction under a pen name …