This just out! Kentucky Humanities just released news about the speakers’ bureau. I'm thrilled to be able to participate. Please help spread the word. Here’s the link for more information.

 Here's a link to my recent talk about, "A Promise Moon."  The good folks at the Daviess County Library in Owensboro broadcast my talk live on their Facebook page. Here's the link:

 The cover for my new book: Stealing Picasso.  Coming this fall.

 

 

Landscape With House and Ploughman by Van Gogh

After Germany looted Russia in WWII and had to withdraw, Russia formed “Trophy Brigades” to confiscate art and recoup losses, only they called it “resaving.” Among the Hermitage museum in St Petersburg’s “resaved” paintings are  and included 74 Impressionist and Post-impressionist canvases; including six by Monet, four by Gauguin, seven by Cézanne, 15 by Renoir, and four by Van Gogh.

 

June 28. Tonight, I’ll be reading excerpts from  StealingRenoir and discussing some of the research and inspiration that made the novel possible at the Ohio County Public Library, 413 S Main Street, Hartford, KY., from 5:30 to 7p. Free!

 Globos in Argentina and Luminarias in New Mexico. Both of these Christmas traditions involve lighting candles so the Christ child can find its way. 

Stealing Picasso is coming out this fall, and the opening scene takes place on Christmas Eve. Globos are an important part of the parade and the theft!

Globos

 

Luminarias

 

“Purim,” by Marc Chagall was a featured piece in Hitler’s Entartete Kunst, Degenerate Art, exhibition. Intended to expose what Hitler considered to be “Degenerate Art,” the exhibition set attendance records!  Entartete Kunst is a major plot point in “Stealing Renoir.” Click here to read the entire first chapter for free!  https://singingrockpublishing.com/products/stealing-renoir-a-mystery-thriller-where-art-crime-and-history-converge