David K Wessel/Author 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇵🇳
@wessel4nh
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Retired diplomat, consultant. Award winning novelist. Love learning & sharing lessons of history, hiking, beaches, books, sunsets, wine, my wife, fam & friends.
NH, Virginia, OBX, Aotearoa
Joined April 2019
Choosing Sides – “Engaging novel about a German family divided by the rise of the Reich.” (BookLife). "Well-developed characters bring new life to a familiar and frightening story." (Kirkus) International Impact Book Award winner, 11/2024. Available at:
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#writersquote As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins. (Barbara Cartland)
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RT @acnewsitics: MAGA: Why do we need USAID? We should be helping people here in America. Democrats: Okay, let's help people here in Ameri…
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RT @VAHumanities: 📚📣📆 It's here! The full schedule for the 2025 #VABookFest is now available. See the schedule, register for free events, b…
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#writersquote When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. (Jonathan Swift)
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#Writersquote Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. (Annie Dillard)
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#writersquote If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. (Rudyard Kipling)
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Such a great book!
This week the popular @Booktasters readers community is promoting #DeadInTheWater, 5th in my #WW2 #FrankMerlin detective series, to their large membership. Reviewers of The Times and of the Daily Mail were among many to love the book. #DeathOfAnOfficer, Merlin 6, coming 29/5/25.
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RT @MarkEllis15: This week the popular @Booktasters readers community is promoting #DeadInTheWater, 5th in my #WW2 #FrankMerlin detective s…
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#writersquote I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide. (Harper Lee)
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@Russell99695573 I’d vote for giving it an ending. I was so disappointed in Empire that I never went to see the third movie. As far as I was/am concerned the writer left the work unfinished.
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RT @AuthorGFAllen: My debut fantasy ebook follows Dart, a blacksmith tasked with protecting Ava, a fallen Celestial princess, from the Infe…
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I sure hope so … or I have behaved badly.
Hello everyone, Is it technically appropriate to use real locations and factual details in a fictional book?
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@whataimeereads_ I was hosting (an in-person) party and invited guests to write their thoughts, predictions for a time capsule to be opened 25 years later. We opened it 01/01/25 at a (virtual) reunion - and had great fun!
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RT @budman_mark: My YA fantasy novel is free for the next couple of day. You can't beat the price. You can't beat the quality. You can't be…
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RT @beverlyamichel: Grab a book box for Valentine’s Day! ❤️ Mechanical Heart - scifi romance. 🧡 Have it All - sapphic rivals to lovers r…
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@SmartyMarty1126 “You say it’s your birthday; It’s my birthday, too; I’m glad it’s your birthday; Happy Birthday to you” And me!
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RT @SmartyMarty1126: NEW!!! The Dravenridge Covenant is now available in paperback, ebook, and FREE for KU!! If you're looking for a fast-p…
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