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January 21, 2020January 19, 2020

Interview with Joshua Ian

WELCOME JOSHUA IAN, HNS NYC member: Co-host with me and Christina Britton Conroy with me at our Book Launch Event: January 30, at BGSQD Bookstore, NYC. Joshua, welcome to my blog. I had seen you at HNS meetings and spoken to you on the phone, in my regular “Are you coming to the meeting” nag …

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January 16, 2020January 7, 2020

Portcullis. Greyhound. Short-necked king with fat face. Long-necked king with thin face. How getting these images muddled up nearly derailed Elizabeth I’s signature economic achievement: purifying English coinage.

Dear friends and readers, To welcome our new decade, I want to share another vignette from my enduring fascination with what made Elizabeth I an astute politician, one of the most successful European rulers of her time. Confession: the drama of the near-failure and scramble to triumph of Elizabeth’s most cherished reform in 1560-62 excites …

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January 10, 2020January 7, 2020

OPEN ENCHANTING HISTORICAL CLOSETS WITH THREE NY NOVELISTS

Enjoy drinks at my next event with HNS fellow authors Christina Britton Conroy and Joshua Ian. Author readings, with slides and videos; Q & A. January 30, 2020 7:00 PM Bureau of General Services—Queer Division: 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States $10 suggested donation to benefit the Bureau. No …

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January 7, 2020

Elizabeth I’s Woad Wobbles

Dear Friends and readers, To welcome 2020 and a new decade, I want to share my enduring fascination with what made Elizabeth I an astute politician, one of the most successful European rulers of her time, some even say her millennium? What eccentric vignettes can shed light on how she and her councillors managed crises …

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December 18, 2019

UKRAINE, A WILD HORSE, LORETTA GOLDBERG, LISZT, RUSSIA, US HOUSE IMPEACHMING TRUMP.

What do they have in common? A bridge of sound across time. 1709 to 2019, the struggle for Ukrainian autonomy goes on! Today, a twenty-first-century US House of Representatives impeached a US President for going wobbly on Ukraine’s independence from Russia, putting his personal interests above U.S. national security interests and democratic institutions in the …

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December 10, 2019

Cute Facebook Ad

Kindle reduced, $2.99. Paperback also discounted. Please share with friends, and enjoy the holidays! Related Posts Welcome to my new website Hello everyone! My wonderful publisher, MadeGlobal Publishing, is working on getting my site to look perfect for me … please Read more Total Theatre Lab, with Caroline Thomas Glowing pre-release review of The Reversible …

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December 4, 2019December 10, 2019

New Review!

Dear Friends, I am honoured by this endorsement from distinguished novelist Stephanie Cowell. She is the author of The Player, a Novel of the Young Shakespeare; Nicholas Cooke: Actor, Soldier, Physician, Priest; The Physician of London (set in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries); Marrying Mozart; and Claude and Camille, a Novel of Monet. …

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November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

An Interview with Jeannie Burt

Hi Jeannie, thank you for visiting my blog today. I am very excited to ask you about your new novel, having enjoyed and admired your first, The Season of Doubt. We met at the HNS convention in Portland, Oregon, in 2017 and have kept in touch since. It grieves me that you haven’t moved to …

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November 5, 2019

Killingworth Library: A Big Thank You!

I am thrilled that the lovely Killingworth Public Library in Killingworth, Connecticut, has just bought The Reversible Mask. Their librarian says that many of their members love historical/spy novels and are always looking for new ones. It’s not easy to get small press publications into libraries here. Doggedly, I will persist! TRM is now in …

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October 16, 2019

PRINCETON BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER GAY AND LESBIAN ALUMNI – Author Series

Oct 10, 2019 From left to right: me (The Reversible Mask); Joshua Ian (Harvest Moon); actor Doug Shapiro for Jeanne Mackin (in absentia) The Last Collection. The questions were great, we sold books, and enjoyed making new friends amidst wine, cheese and pastries. The intimate private-home setting felt like chamber music soirees or an eighteenth-century …

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