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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 …

Continue reading “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.”

I am thrilled to share that Beyond the Bukubuk Tree is the 2024 Storytrade Book Award Winner for the LGBTQ Category. Congratulations too to the superb winners and finalists in other categories. Thankyou Storytrade. I am very grateful. Storytrade’s award supplements the novel’s earlier awards from The International Firebird Book Award for War Fiction in …

Continue reading “THIRD AWARD FOR BEYOND THE BUKUBUK TREE: A WORLD WAR II NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS.”

Dear Readers, I couldn’t be happier with this dive into my novel. Thank you, reviewer/ editor/ author Diane Donovan. A recommendation to libraries is precious. “Beyond the Bukubuk Tree Loretta Goldberg Home MadeGlobal Publishing 9788412232585, $4.99 eBook World War II novels abound and quite often include love stories amidst battles – so what makes Beyond …

Continue reading “Midwest Book Review, September 2024, by Senior Reviewer Diane Donovan of Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss”

I had read, with fascination, that members of a Tolai tribe living on Matupit Island, which abuts Rabaul, had traditional privileges to dig up and sell at the market these rich eggs. The birds lay their eggs deep in warm volcanic soil at the foothills of Tavurvur, the active volcano I climbed. You can see …

Continue reading “A Highlight of my Papua New Guinea visit: Harvesting Brush Turkey Eggs, which is a Scene in my novel Beyond the Bukubuk Tree.”

  Faith, Thank you for introducing my readers and friends to these iconic women rulers who populate your novels. Let me say straight out that the longer I know you, now nine happy years, the more my admiration grows: for your writing, your passion for your chosen period, your publishing ventures with your own Raggedy …

Continue reading “Meet my friend and colleague, Faith Justice, to welcome the publication of REBEL EMPRESS, the fourth book in her series featuring the extraordinary Theodosian women”

Dear Readers and Friends, Yesterday, I posted about my  physician protagonist. Today, I am featuring Dr. Likeman, who had lived and worked in Papua New Guinea for several years. I was thrilled to meet Dr. Likeman in Melbourne last year, at the unveiling of the statue commemorating fallen Australian doctors in World Wars I and …

Continue reading “Infinite thanks to Colonel (retired) Dr. Robert Likeman for permitting me to post hiis article on life as an army doctor. My protagonist in Beyond the Bukubuk Tree, Jake Friedman, is a fictionalized army doctor in 1941. Meet a contemporary one.”