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January 7, 2020

Elizabeth I’s Woad Wobbles

Dear Friends and readers, To welcome 2020 and a new decade, I want to share my enduring fascination with what made Elizabeth I an astute politician, one of the most successful European rulers of her time, some even say her millennium? What eccentric vignettes can shed light on how she and her councillors managed crises …

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December 18, 2019

UKRAINE, A WILD HORSE, LORETTA GOLDBERG, LISZT, RUSSIA, US HOUSE IMPEACHMING TRUMP.

What do they have in common? A bridge of sound across time. 1709 to 2019, the struggle for Ukrainian autonomy goes on! Today, a twenty-first-century US House of Representatives impeached a US President for going wobbly on Ukraine’s independence from Russia, putting his personal interests above U.S. national security interests and democratic institutions in the …

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December 10, 2019

Cute Facebook Ad

Kindle reduced, $2.99. Paperback also discounted. Please share with friends, and enjoy the holidays! Related Posts Welcome to my new website Hello everyone! My wonderful publisher, MadeGlobal Publishing, is working on getting my site to look perfect for me … please Read more Total Theatre Lab, with Caroline Thomas Glowing pre-release review of The Reversible …

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December 4, 2019December 10, 2019

New Review!

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. …

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November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

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 …

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November 5, 2019

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 …

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October 16, 2019

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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October 8, 2019

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 …

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October 5, 2019

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 …

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September 20, 2019

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 …

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