Novel in the works:
Forever 55: During a 40-year journalism career Jake Lamonica opened the world’s eyes to genocide in Africa, reported on the horror of wars in the Middle East and exposed corruption in Washington, D.C. By the time he retired, he had two Pulitzers, an Emmy Award, two legs full of shrapnel and a serious heart condition. A struggling coastal newspaper lured him out of retirement, but after seven more years on the job, he was finally ready to retire for good, and then he met Tom Miller, a man who hadn’t aged in 37 years.
Expected completion: Someday
Word count as of Jan. 1, 2025: ~23,000
Here are links to some of my favorite news articles since I started freelancing in 2020.
- Daniel Morgan’s temper brought him 499 lashes from the British. He repaid them with American victories. (Cardinal News, February 13, 2024)
- An alleged plot to kill George Washington in 1779 gets new scrutiny (Cardinal News, June 15, 2023)
- Brown creepers, golden crowned kinglets and tufted titmice appear for annual bird count (The Citizen, Dec. 19, 2022)
- ‘Too many things to photograph’: More than 70 years in, Litten’s picture-taking passion still burns (The Citizen, Aug. 15, 2022)
- Snow goose, Ross’s goose make Rockingham debuts for annual bird census (The Citizen, Dec. 21, 2021)
- In a school featuring ‘stewardship’ learning, solar array will be the newest teaching tool (The Citizen, July 26, 2021)
- For the birders: pandemic spurs new interest in area’s feathered friends (The Citizen, July 7, 2021)
- Shoppers visit downtown retailers for Small Business Saturday (The Citizen, Nov. 30, 2020)
- Gemeinschaft Home emerges from quarantine following two positive COVID-19 tests (The Citizen, May 14, 2020 _ My first story for a newspaper since 1999.)
My author archive at The Citizen is here: https://hburgcitizen.com/author/eric-gorton/