In-person Author Talk. Join HNS-NYC October 22 at 425 Sixth Avenue NYC to hear Jeanne Mackin and Susan Wands discuss their new novels. In a program titled Iconic People, Invented Plots, learn how these authors blend fact and fiction in portraying historical people. Scroll down to register.

Iconic People, Invented Plots will explore how historical novelists handle iconic characters and their descendants with regard to self-censorship, publisher and reader expectations, and other constraints on authorial freedom. Jeanne Mackin’s Picasso’s Lovers presents a tangled and vivid portrait of the women caught in Picasso’s charismatic orbit through the affairs, the scandals, and the art. Mackin will share …

Exciting New Review from AuthorsReading.com. They included the Book Trailer, with its traditional Garamut (slit log drum) sounds I recorded in Rabaul, the players Francis Toiar and Francis Totu. Thank you AuthorsReading.

“Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss – Book Review GoodReads Rating: 4.65 Book Review of :  Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss The cover art of Loretta. Goldberg’s Beyond the Bukubuk Tree, A WWII Historical Novel of Love and Loss, will entice …