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One of the small delightful moments in publishing a book comes when the author can bring the handsome new cover to the framing shop. Once...

The Big Promotion Roadshow kicked off on Feb. 13 with an hour-long Zoom book discussion organized by Clyde Owan for Oberlin College...

Word on the street is that 'Nightmare in the Pacific' will arrive on or about Feb. 20, 2025. The original publication date was October...

There are a lot of things I love about writing books. Getting permission is not one of them. A non-fiction book like 'Nightmare in the...

Putting Artie Shaw together is like working a jigsaw puzzle with some crucial missing pieces and some hoaxes dropped into the mix. I'm...

I followed Harold S. Kaye's footprints for the longest time. I finally find them in the funniest of ways. Kaye was a federal government...

I turned to several other freelance researchers while working on 'Nightmare in the Pacific.' (See 'Helping Hands' for an explanation of...

It takes a village to write a book like 'Nightmare in the Pacific.' Take Artie Shaw's 1944 divorce from the former Elizabeth Kern. As a...

I used to consider myself strictly a DIYer when it came to book research. So much so, that I recall more than once seeing an author's...

So, turn every page. Got it, Mr. Caro. But sometimes, the pages end short of the prize, and the writer/reporter/historian is left empty...

The great biographer Robert Caro cites a reporting admonition he first learned from an old Newsday editor who was schooling him in the...

Behind every book there is a story. Here's the story, at least the one that has taken root in my mind, about how I came to write my...