Aviatrix. Chanteuse. Thief. Spy.

Down-on-her-luck aviatrix Kate DeWitt can save her fellow pilots’ lives by spying on the Nazis fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She’ll risk her own neck if she does. Can she fly out of trouble as easily as she flew into it?

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The Lighter Side of German Music

The Lighter Side of German Music

When most of us outside Germany think of German music — especially the kind that was popular in the 1930s — we tend to go stereotypical: Wagner, “Horst-Wessel-Lied,” “Deutschland Über Alles,” and so on. But German Jazz-Age pop could be… Continue Reading…

The End of the Beginning

The End of the Beginning

In the end, it would always come down to this…I finished the first full draft of Bluejay Rises this morning. That doesn’t mean the book’s finished. (See this post’s title.) What it does mean is that it exists as a… Continue Reading…

Kate’s Songbook: Chapter 4

Kate’s Songbook: Chapter 4

In Chapter 4, Kate has escaped from Oran after doing something unwise and ends up at Oran’s civilian airport, where she’s taken into custody by the local gendarmes and turned over to Inspecteur Principal Agassiz of the Sûreté Nationale. Luckily… Continue Reading…

LW Charnes has been an Air Force intelligence officer, information technology manager, computer-game artist, set designer, and Jeopardy! contestant, and is now an emergency management specialist. LW has had training in architectural rendering, terrorist incident response, and maritime archaeology, though not all at the same time…

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