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Just before the pandemic, I retired after fifteen years as a high school science teacher. I did other jobs before that, but none was as worthy. Except as a junior officer in the United States Coast Guard. With retirement, however, I needed to do something with this time.

So, about the novel, Refuge: A Novel of Lost Democracy. Here as a few interviews I've had that will help explain.

My latest interview with Lisa Towles, award winning crime thriller author, of Story Impact:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTV9I...

Upton (MA) Community Television. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfqnJ...

Rhody Radio Podcast, September 12, 2023
https://link.chtbl.com/ePDeMYWG

Find more on my Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

David Schoorens I think The Martian, once more. I thought it would be useful to read it again, not so much for the exciting story, but for an examination of the autho…moreI think The Martian, once more. I thought it would be useful to read it again, not so much for the exciting story, but for an examination of the author's style. It's written in first person and as it so happens, my second novel will be written in first person. So, why not learn from a master.(less)

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

David Schoorens My whole life I've loved reading history. I'd often imagine what it must have been like to be at the signing of the Magna Carta or the Declaration of …moreMy whole life I've loved reading history. I'd often imagine what it must have been like to be at the signing of the Magna Carta or the Declaration of Independence. Or experience - from a safe distance of course - the Battle of Gettysburg and landing at Omaha Beach. Well, none of that will happen.

But if it could happen. If there was a way to travel back in time. Or forward in time just to see if we have managed to survive as a civilization. That is the world that H.G. Well created in The Time Machine. To visit not one fictional world, but all our worlds that were, or will be. Now that would be something.(less)

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