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In The Novels pages, I’ve provided some meta-text to my novels including synopses and excerpts, inspirations and research. I’ve even included the odd “deleted scene” cut from the final edits of the novels. Music has always been important and I’ve included links to some that has been used in the novels.
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THanks for your kind words. As you know it is all a long haul. I will look for your Goodreads e-mail greg
Just finished reading The Skin of Water. Wanted you to know that I loved the book. I never deamed when I started the book that it would move me like that. I purchased and read it on my Nook. Looking forward to reading more of your writing.
I really enjoyed The Skin of Water. The love story was beautiful and captivating. As I’ve read many books on Nazi Germany, my son works at the American Embassy in Berlin and has since his discharge from the marines in 2001. With all the vial and cruel acts of The Third Reich, he told me how the violence in Germany now is almost nonexistent compared to America’s inner cities. Sadly, I have to agree.
I look forward to reading Consumption.
I just finished reading Skin on Water and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was drawn into the book by your writing style and gift of description that flows so beautifully. It never seemed forced or contrived. The depth of the characters and movement of the story made it a pleasure to read. I look forward to reading more from you. Well done!
I just finished Skin of Water and enjoyed the wonderful love story set in Hungary during the occupation. It actually brought tears to my eyes which is rare. Thank you for your beautiful writing style.
This is the first time I comment on a book (due to limited knowledge of english).
I absolutely loved both your books. Skin of Water and Consumption mesmerized me. I kept on reading, and reading, and reading. The way you write about the relations between people is very realistic.
I bin many books, because they are just not lively enough written or sometimes writers use such difficult words that one needs a dictionary and the novel becomes unreadable.
Not the case with these beauties. Next book out, and I will buy instantly.
Keep on going this way.
Woman reader (61 :((( )
Amazing book, sensitively written. Well-researched. Ending was great. Might have liked to see the two of them find one another, but found your ending more credible.
Hope you continue to write. Will certainly true to read Consumption.
Just finished The Skin of Water.
I sat in silence with my eyes full for several moments, as one does after hearing powerfully moving music.
Your writing is spare and evocative. The backdrop of the story, an ugly moment in history, offsets an aching love. The lovers are separated in heartbreak many of us recognize: an unbearable pain that fades but is never forgotten. Life moves on, with its struggles and satisfactions and new love: it’s new joy both sharpened and blunted by the contrast to the pain we have known.
Thank you.
Really loved your book “The Skin of Water”. It swept me away to historical Hungary during the 2nd world war – a place I knew nothing about. I quickly became engrossed in the central characters and the intriguing story and couldn’t put it down. Thank you!
Look forward to reading more of your books.
I read your first book, skin on water. I started your second book yesterday, and couldn’t put it down. I am three quarters done. Thanks for sharing your excellent writing talent.
Thanks so much for contacting me and I’m so pleased you like the novels. You’ve made my Easter! I hope to have something new out soon, a murder mystery set in France in 1869. Happy reading.
Just finished reading The Skin of Water and I cannot begin to tell you the emotions that it brought out in me. It is the first book in a long time that I could not put down! My Maternal grandfather came to America from Hungary after WWI and your writing made me regret that I was not able to talk to him about this before he died so I could learn of his experience in Buda/Pest. He arrived here as a young man following his older brothers, one of whom was named Zoltan, and they started movie houses in New Jersey. Thank you for writing this book and allowing me to start my retirement by reading it! I am sure it will linger with me for a long time and be a measure by which I judge other books in the future.
(A retired 8th grade language arts teacher)