Dear Friends and readers, my novel just received the coveted Recommended rating from the US Review of Books!

With the Kindle now $2.99 and paperback down in price, please share this exciting news: Recommended Reviews Our reviewers apply a RECOMMENDED rating to outstanding books. While many reviews are positive and the books are worthy, the recommended rating is used less than 10-20% of the time. This is a very high quality book. book …

SALUTE TO ANON

Dear Friends, I am not talking about me today! I want to share the deeply moving organ recital at Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on September 20. This cathedral hosts two nineteenth-century pipe organs. One is a small Hall and Labargh instrument of 1859, the other a large Erban organ of 1865. Erban was …

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, …

Folks I don’t know and folks I do know seem to like the book similarly! Friends, please share!

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, …