General Archives - Page 2 of 19

January 29, 2025

A Wonderful Night at the elegant Henry Carter Hull Library, Clinton, Connecticut.

I was thrilled to address readers at this gem of a library. While living in Clinton we were both long-term members. It has been rated as one of the top six libraries for Connecticut towns with up to 40,000 residents. And Clinton has about 14, 000 residents. So Henry Carter Hull punches way above its …

Continue reading “A Wonderful Night at the elegant Henry Carter Hull Library, Clinton, Connecticut.”

January 16, 2025

I HAVE REACHED THE FOURTH OUT OF FIVE ROUNDS IN THE HEMINGWAY 2024 BOOK AWARD FOR WAR FICTION. THE CONTEST CONTINUES!

Dear Friends, I hadn’t realized Beyond the Bukubuk Tree had progressed from the Long List for the Hemingway Book Award to the Short List to the Semi-Finalists. Imagine my excitement and shock when I saw my name on the FINALISTS List. *** The 2024 Hemingway Book Awards Finalists for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction …

Continue reading “I HAVE REACHED THE FOURTH OUT OF FIVE ROUNDS IN THE HEMINGWAY 2024 BOOK AWARD FOR WAR FICTION. THE CONTEST CONTINUES!”

November 21, 2024

Thrilling News in my email yesterday! Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss is on the published Long List of titles competing for the prestigious Hemingway Book Award for Wartime Fiction 2024.

Dear Friends and Readers, In addition to winning an International Firebird Book Award for War Fiction, the 2024 Storytrade Book Award in LGBTQ Fiction and a Literary Titan Gold Book Award for Fiction, I am in contention for the Hemingway Book Award for Wartime Fiction. Wish me luck! There’s far to go, but being on …

Continue reading “Thrilling News in my email yesterday! Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss is on the published Long List of titles competing for the prestigious Hemingway Book Award for Wartime Fiction 2024.”

October 7, 2024

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.

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.”

October 1, 2024

Exciting New Review from AuthorsReading.com. They included the Book Trailer, with its traditional Garamut (slit log drum) sounds I recorded in Rabaul, the players Francis Toiar and Francis Totu. Thank you AuthorsReading.

“Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss – Book Review GoodReads Rating: 4.65 Book Review of : Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss The cover art of Loretta. Goldberg’s Beyond the Bukubuk Tree, A WWII Historical Novel of Love and Loss, will entice …

Continue reading “Exciting New Review from AuthorsReading.com. They included the Book Trailer, with its traditional Garamut (slit log drum) sounds I recorded in Rabaul, the players Francis Toiar and Francis Totu. Thank you AuthorsReading.”

September 20, 2024

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

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.”

September 8, 2024

Midwest Book Review, September 2024, by Senior Reviewer Diane Donovan of 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”

September 5, 2024

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

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.”

August 28, 2024

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

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”

August 23, 2024

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.

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.”