A LARGE SUPPORTIVE CROWD AT MASONICARE CHESTER VILLAGE’s PUBLIC AUTHOR READING EVENT

Is there anything better than having to put out MORE chairs? All my thanks to Activities Director Priscilla Merritt and the staff for making this evening so much fun. There must have been 50 attendees, the questions were terrific, and they gave me a standing ovation at the end. Don Hick, President-Elect of the Chester …

ENTHUSIASTIC THUMBS UP for the International Thriller Writers Association ThrillerFest Conference XIV, July 2019, NYC

It was a bit of a stretch for me as an author of a historical novel to attend, but ITW includes espionage, so I did. I heard several excellent educational panels from authors such as Steve Berry and Dennis Palumbo. Berry described tight story-telling formulas that work in any genre except linguistically experimental novels. Palumbo, …

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Arfie 5.0 out of 5 stars: Wonderful Sense of History July 15, 2019 Format: Kindle Edition Amazon In general, I avoid historical novels. There is usually a strong sense of artificiality about them. However, Loretta Goldberg’s The Reversible Mask” is a tour de force. I came to it through my interest in the Middle Ages, …

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“Book Excellence Award Finalist Book Title: The Reversible Mask: An Elizabethan Spy Novel Category: Historical (From) hundreds of entries from around the world (and) your book was selected for its high-quality writing, design and market appeal.”

Thrilling HNSNA 2019 Conference June 20-22

Three days of revelatory seminar sessions, meeting friends and colleagues, good food and an Olympic length swimming pool in the gorgeous Gaylord Conference Center in Maryland, overlooking the Chesapeake Bay. For me the most enlightening workshops were by Alma Katsu: Upping the Ante: Creating and sustaining conflict. A former intelligence analyst, she posited four kinds …