Lovely bit of praise from Darcie Rowan!
LOVERS AND REVOLUTIONARIES IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
Loretta Goldberg Moderates this Zoom Book Launch Event: Authors Mary Calvi; Julieta Almeida Rodrigues; Michelle Cameron.
Julieta Almeida Rodrigues talks about her new novel: Eleonora and Joseph. Passion, Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment.
Welcome to my website, Julieta. What a thrill to see Eleonora and Joseph published, and with such an inspired cover! A bit about your background for my readers and friends who don’t know you: you bring extraordinary personal experience to this novel. You depict intriguing historical characters of the Enlightenment in Southern Europe. You came …
An Interview with Michelle Cameron
MICHELLE CAMERON talks about her new prize-winning novel Beyond the Ghetto Gates. Welcome to my website. I am so happy you’ll be on our next HNS Published Writers series, June 30 at 6.00 pm, even if it is Zoom. Thank you. Michelle, at my high school we learned about Napoleon in Northern Europe, Spain, Egypt, …
WHIMSICAL WONDERS: REJECTION LETTERS AND BAD REVIEWS TO LIGHTEN A WRITER’S HEART.
Book reviews of Atlantic High by William F. Buckley Jr. (Little, Brown and Company, 1982), and Lexicon of Musical Invective by Nicholas Slonimsky (University of Washington, 1965). Buckley and Slonimsky were leading intellectuals of the twentieth century. Buckley was a conservative political theorist, author, TV anchor and editor of The National Review, while Slonimsky was …
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NO APRIL FOOL’S JOKE!
I Really Am Person of the Week, Valley Courier, April 1 Edition! Lockdown selfie taken from the living room up here:
A DIFFERENT WAY OF BEING HUMAN: MP3/VINYL release of music by Ruth Anderson
Dear Friends and Readers, Today I want to tell you about a meditative sound experience that for me is made for our present homebound anxieties. Disclaimer: I took a composition course with Ruth Anderson for my MA degree in Music Performance at Hunter College. I received an ARC MP3 from the producer. Here is a …
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FOCUS ON A “QUEER” CONTEXT for The Reversible Mask NEW INTERVIEW
Dear Friends and Readers, I am thrilled to share this thoughtful interview by author Joshua Ian. Please enjoy.
WHAT COULD BE MORE FUN AND RELEVANT TODAY…
THAN THE 1868 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BY VICTORIA WOODHULL TO BE THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT? Ulysses S. Grant? Horatio Seymour? They don’t faze Victoria. Women don’t even have the vote. But Victoria has a mission to enlighten the entire population at a moment, just after the civil war, when everything seemed possible. Naked Truth, Carrie Hayes’s …
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Ivoryton Library
Dear Friends and Readers, The evening was tremendous fun. I managed Renaissance costume, imagine! Maybe that helped sell lots of books. A shout out to Christina Britton Conroy, who helped me choose my dress and headgear from The Pyramid Collection and Etsy, respectively (Everyone asks). It was a warm crowd, with engaged questions. It’s really …