Thank you everyone for the wonderful reception of HANNAH. I’m excited that it’s now available on paperback on Amazon for those who don’t have access to a bookstore that carries my books (or are Prime shoppers like me. Haha).
Monday, June 27, 2022
Hannah: Mother of a Prophet
Monday, April 11, 2022
2022 Booksignings
Join me at a book signing in 2022!
April 25 at Orem Deseret Book: 6-8:00 pm.
May 7 at Layton Seagull Book: 1-3:00 pm.
May 14 at Provo Utah Valley Convention Center: 5:30-7:00 pm
June 4 at Duchesne Library Event: 1:00 pm.
June 16 at Deseret Book City Creek, SLC, 5-7:00 pm
June 18 at American Fork Seagull Book, 11:00 am
June 25 at Cedar City Deseret Book: 2-4:00 pm
Aug 13 at Cottonwood Heights Deseret Book 2-4:00 pm
Friday, September 3, 2021
Video interviews with Bob Inama
Sunday, August 8, 2021
Editor's Pick
I'm thrilled to share that The Slow March of Light was selected as an Editor's Choice by the Historical Novel Society.
Full review can be read here.
Releases September 7, 2021. You can pre-order here.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Booklist Review: The Slow March of Light
Thank you to Booklist for the wonderful review of The Slow March of Light.
Full review can be read here (p. 37).
Amazon pre-order: https://amzn.to/3yeUXkt
A riveting and emotionally-gripping novel of an American soldier working as a spy in Soviet-occupied East Germany and a West German woman secretly helping her countrymen escape from behind the Berlin Wall.
In the summer of 1961, a wall of barbed wire goes up quickly in the dead of night, officially dividing Berlin. Luisa Voigt lives in West Berlin, but her grandmother lives across the border and is now trapped inside the newly- isolated communist country of East Germany. Desperate to rescue her grandmother and aware of the many others whose families have been divided, Luisa joins a secret spy network, risking her life to help bring others through a makeshift, underground tunnel to West Germany. Their work is dangerous and not everyone will successfully escape or live to see freedom.
Bob Inama was an outstanding university student, with plans to attend law school when he is drafted into the US Army. Stationed in West Germany, he is glad to be fluent in German, especially after meeting Luisa Voigt at a church social. As they spend time together, they form a close connection. But when Bob receives classified orders to leave for undercover work immediately, he does not get the chance to say goodbye.
With a fake identity, Bob's special assignment is to be a spy embedded in East Germany. His undercover job will give him access to government sites to map out strategic military targets. But Soviet and East German spies, the secret police, and Stasi informants are everywhere, and eventually Bob is caught and sent to a brutal East German prison. Interrogated and tortured daily, Bob clings to any hope he can find from the sunlight that marches across the wall of his prison to the one guard who secretly treats him with kindness to the thought of one day seeing Luisa again.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Publisher's Marketplace: next book announced!
I'm excited to announce my next historical novel, which will be based on Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll. She was the fourth daughter, and sixth child, of Queen Victoria. I'm building a Pinterest page for my research. I could spend years on this book, but I have about six months to draft, so it's a full-time job right now.
Here's the announcement from Publisher's Marketplace:
Now back to work!
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Cover Reveal: The Slow March of Light
I'm thrilled to share the final cover for my historical novel, The Slow March of Light. Coming September 7, 2021.
From the publisher: