It's NEWS!-Release Day

I have been eagerly awaiting today--the release date of my new novel, NEWS!, for a year and a few days, since signing a publishing contract with Propertius Press and Susannah Smith. It doubles as my birthday, so the party is on at Hollins. 

Publisher Susannah Smith and me.

This book is a joyful celebration of my career, journalism, which has held me captive for 58 years. In it, I take a fictional look at the creation of a journalist at a time when honest journalism was the rule, not the exception, and when most people got their daily news from mid-sized daily publications. 

Journalists have always topped my list of heroes and in NEWS! that shows without reservation. It is an unapologetically uplifting book, a celebration of journalism as a keystone of our now-fading culture. One of the important reasons it is facing is because journalism has faded.

Today, we celebrate. Tomorrow, we get back to reality.