Many thanks to MoChickadee for a nice review of The Enemy Among Us. I always appreciate comments and feedback on my work. If you’ve read either The Enemy Among Us or My Enemy, My Love to put up a review of the book(s) on places like Amazon.com or Goodreads.com are always appreciated. Read the review by MoChickadee posted on her blog.

I am super excited to announce a just-booked program on Saturday October 6th at 3 p.m. on the campus of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. The event is sponsored by the (ICASI), which is based in Edwardsville. Though it’s a young organization (2 and 1/2 years old) they’ve already presented fantastic programs on the Italian language, brought Winter Opera to the Villa Marie Winery, presented a classic Italian Carnevale,  and produced a book of recipes […]

If you would like to listen to the interview that was aired last month on St. Louis Public Radio, just follow the link here and you’ll get the MP3 file. Host Don Marsh did a terrific job, and we got a lot of calls on the hour-long St. Louis on the Air.  Many thanks to Don and producer Libby Franklin for having me on and for their excellent work. Dave Fiedler interview on KWMU St. […]

This must be the 21st century. I did a TV interview with an out-of-town station via Skype this past week. You know, Skype, the Internet-based webcam connection where you’re talking to somebody somewhere else through your computer. Hannah McNeff, the morning anchor with KHQA did a terrific job and the technology worked well. It was a fun interview since that area has strong ties to the POW story. There were camps located in Hannibal and […]

Hi everybody – if you’ve been wanting to check out one of my programs, you have a great opportunity tomorrow night, Tuesday January 31st at the History Museum in Forest Park.  Address is 5700 Lindell and I would love to see you there.  Starts at 7 p.m. Both books will be available.  Call me if you need more info (314) 956-7353. Follow this link to a poster of the event.  

Great time Thursday with an hour-long appearance on St. Louis on the Air, hosted by Don Marsh on KWMU-FM, 90.7, St. Louis public radio station.  Lots of good calls and interest in the topic of the German and Italian POWs in Missouri and in the new book. Here’s a link to the program page and the archived audio of the program.

Very excited to announce the scheduling of a program on Sunday, March 4th, in Ste. Genevieve County, Mo.  Not only is Weingarten, Mo. and Ste. Genevieve County one of the most important places for POW history in Missouri  — over 5,000 Italian POWs were held in the camp there — but the event will be at a very cool new place place called Weingarten Vineyard.  Specific time still TBD – thinking probably 3 p.m., but […]

Just a note that if you’ve been wanting to see one of the lectures that I give on the topic of the POWs in Missouri, the next program is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan 31 at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park. It’s a homecoming of sorts for me, as the Missouri Historical Society is the original publisher of The Enemy Among Us, and the very first program I gave on the POWs was when […]

If you’re looking for something to do this evening, or have a need to get some holiday gifts for your book loving friends, you’re in luck.  From 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. at the Middendorf-Kredell Branch of the St. Charles City-County Library, over two dozen authors will be there with books for sale.  Along with yours truly, the list includes: Alvin Zamudio: The American Sandbox Dictionary of Children’s Mispronounced English Amanda E. Doyle: Finally! A Locally […]

Thanks to patch.com news (the site that partners with AOL to provide locally-targeted news items) for a lovely article on the new book.  It talks a bit about the original POW history, and how the new book came about. You can check out the whole piece here.