Meet my friend and colleague, Faith Justice, to welcome the publication of REBEL EMPRESS, the fourth book in her series featuring the extraordinary Theodosian women

  Faith, Thank you for introducing my readers and friends to these iconic women rulers who populate your novels. Let me say straight out that the longer I know you, now nine happy years, the more my admiration grows: for your writing, your passion for your chosen period, your publishing ventures with your own Raggedy …

Infinite thanks to Colonel (retired) Dr. Robert Likeman for permitting me to post hiis article on life as an army doctor. My protagonist in Beyond the Bukubuk Tree, Jake Friedman, is a fictionalized army doctor in 1941. Meet a contemporary one.

Dear Readers and Friends, Yesterday, I posted about my  physician protagonist. Today, I am featuring Dr. Likeman, who had lived and worked in Papua New Guinea for several years. I was thrilled to meet Dr. Likeman in Melbourne last year, at the unveiling of the statue commemorating fallen Australian doctors in World Wars I and …

What does polio have to do with my World War II novel Beyond the Bukubuk Tree? Meet Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse.

This image of Sister Elizabeth Kenny, who developed a controversial treatment for polio, is from her service in World war I. My novel opens with Dr. Jake Friedman’s dream, set in Australia’s state of Victoria. He’s the on-call doctor at a district hospital. He dreams that he and three nurses get an urgent care call …

Two Review/Recommendations on LoveReading, an influential UK Indie Online platform.

Thank you Charlotte Walker and Linda Amos.https://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/27044/Beyond-the-Bukubuk-Tree-A-World-War-II-Novel-of-Love-and-Losss-by-Loretta-Goldberg.html LoveReading Says Available from Amazon. An emotional and compelling exploration of the Australian Lark Forces stationed in Rabaul during World War II. Jake Friedman is an idealistic young Jewish doctor from Melbourne, haunted by the death of a colleague injured on their way to a callout to try …

I talk to Nev March, award-winning author of a mystery series set in nineteenth-century India and the USA. Coming August 12: paperback edition of her third book The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret

Nev, welcome to my blog. It’s a privilege for me to introduce you to my readers. I’ve always admired your work. Congratulations on the success of The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret. Your biography states that after a long corporate career you returned to your passion for writing. From the outside, my impression is that you went …