TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, EASTERN STANDARD TIME, I’LL BE INTERVIEWED REGARDING MY HISTORICAL NOVEL, PUSHING WATER, ON MIKE SPIEGEL’S RADIO PROGRAM. Here is a link to tonight’s broadcast: http://www.gcnlive.com/JW1D/index.php/onair How many novels, poems and articles do you think were written on…
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TODAY I’M A GUEST ON TERRY ODELL’S BLOG
Today Aon She Beng, a character in my latest novel PUSHING WATER, is interviewed on Terry Odell’s blog. Click here to read the interview.
RETROSPECTIVE OF TWO YEARS RIDING THE NYC SUBWAY
My second novel, Pushing Water, will be hitting the market any day now! It’s been a long time coming. There for a while I didn’t think it would ever get finished. But one thing about writing is that if you keep…
A COVER REVEAL FOR MY NOVEL “PUSHING WATER”
By MARGARET MENDEL Well, today I got the final version of the cover for PUSHING WATER my novel due to be published later this year. There is still the publisher’s galley to read. I’ll use that time to edit a few…
ONE PILLAR PAGODA
THIS BLOG POST APPEARED IN MARCH 2016. HOWEVER SOMETHING WENT TERRIBLY WRONG WITH THIS WEBSITE, IT CRASHED AND THREE OR FOUR POSTS WERE DELETED. I’M REPOSTING THIS ONE AGAIN. THE OTHERS THAT WERE DELETED WILL SOON ALSO BE REPOSTED. BY…
TRAFFIC IN VIETNAM
Recently I finished writing a novel, PUSHING WATER. The story is based in Vietnam several years before WWII. It’s a murder mystery, but probably it’s more about what was happening during those years. The world was a mess. Japan had…
A BRIEF REPRIEVE FROM THE WRITING LIFE
Lately I’ve been doing a great deal of work on PUSHING WATER, a novel in revision, and getting the final drafts of FISH KICKER ready for its publication that’s coming in March 2014. Most of the day I sit at…