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. …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
DON’T MISS OUT. FANTASY MAP GIVEAWAY REMINDER.
MY PAPERBACK SALES ARE SPIKING, BUT IF YOU’RE ELIGIBLE FOR MY CURRENT GIVEAWAY YOU HAVEN’T TOLD ME YET! Dear friends and readers, I announced this Fantasy Map Giveaway for a verified purchases of a new paperback of The Reversible Mask from August,9 to September 30, 2019. Only one reader has contacted me at Loretta@lorettagoldberg.com. Here …
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FALL ENTERTAINMENT KICKOFF: Attention lovers of historical fiction!
Come meet me for a book signing, giveaway, and fun slide show at the charming Masonicare at Chester Village Auditorium: September 18th Free event, but Must RSVP at the number below:
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, …