BOOK REVIEWS: It is so gratifying when another author writing
#historicalfiction acknowledges, reviews and promotes your title on their website.
It’s a vote of confidence. Malve Von Hassell is no slouch. Her bio follows: –
Malve von Hassell was born in Italy and spent part of her
childhood in Belgium and Germany before moving to the United States. She is a
freelance writer, researcher, and translator. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology
from the New School for Social Research. Working as an independent scholar, she
published The Struggle for Eden: Community Gardens in New York City (Bergin
& Garvey 2002) and Homesteading in New York City 1978-1993: The Divided
Heart of Loisaida (Bergin & Garvey 1996). She has also edited her
grandfather Ulrich von Hassell's memoirs written in prison in 1944, Der Kreis
schließt sich - Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft 1944 (Propylaen Verlag 1994). She
has taught at Queens College, Baruch College, Pace University, and Suffolk
County Community College, while continuing her work as a translator and writer.
She has self-published a children’s picture book, Letters from the Tooth Fairy
(Mill City Press, 2012) and her translation and annotation of a German
children’s classic by Tamara Ramsay, Rennefarre: Dott’s Wonderful Travels and
Adventures (Two Harbors Press, 2012). The Falconer’s Apprentice (namelos, 2015)
was her first historical fiction novel for young adults. Her most recent
releases are Alina: A Song for the Telling (BHC Press, 2020), set in Jerusalem
in the time of the crusades, and The Amber Crane (Odyssey Books, 2020), set in
Germany in 1645 and 1945.
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ENVIE, a new on-line literary journal that engages directly
with the Twitter #writingcommunity, also included TRILLIUM in their useful &
informative May edition. -- No review, but a serious four-colour ‘plug’. - I’ll
take it!
WRITING:
--- In the writing department, I have been invited to write
a column on how the art world is faring during the #COVID19 pandemic. A rather
broad topic, but I took a swing at it. It’s coming out shortly in the local news
blog, The Burlington Gazette. The publisher and I have a long and somewhat cantankerous
relationship, but we struggle on together to inform and delight local readers.
Sample of graphic & poetic design ... |
VISUAL WORK:
In the visual department, my art work is in two on-line exhibits with the Women’s
Art Association of Hamilton. The first is dedicated to SPRING 2020, (shown here) and the second is related to #COVID19 and Social Distancing' ...
'Spring Thaw' by MLHolton - NFS/SOLD - NB: Naive-Surreal-FOLK-abstracts ... |
... In sum, I’d say Spring has officially begun …
May the Fourth Be With You!
... Now back to work. - mlh :)