Friday, February 19, 2016

MARLIN | Books and Blogs 2016

William H. Woodin, FDR's First Treasury Secretary
Status of my top book projects and blogs as of February 2016:

1. Will Woodin, FDR's First Treasury Secretary - biography. A draft is completed. A book proposal for a publisher has been prepared. 

2. The Boissevain and van Hall Families in the Dutch Resistance - family biography of 1940-45. A draft has been completed and is being reviewed by the family.

3. Heraldry of the Oxford Colleges. An article was published in Oxford Today. Sample write-ups of Oxford colleges' arms have been posted.

4. Biographies of Eugen Boissevain, Hilda van Stockum, Alice Tepper Marlin. In various stages of writing.

I would love it if anyone who reads this could look at the chapters I have posted above under 1 and 2 and comment. My email address is John[at]CityEconomist[dot]com.

Meanwhile, I post regularly on the following nine blogsites, listed in order of cumulative number of PageViews, which now approach one million (more than 975,000 as of Feb. 21, 2016).

1. CityEconomist.blogspot.com (Regional, Economic History, Policy) 
2. Ox-Cam NYC (Oxford, Cambridge Heraldry and Other Themes)
3. Writers4Kids.blogspot.com (Children's Books, Birthdays)
4. CSRNYC (Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability)
5. NYCTimeTraveler.blogspot.com (History, Sci-Fi)
6. Warriors-Families (Military History, Economics)
7. Hilda van Stockum (Her Books, Art, Life, Family)
8. Inez Milholland (Her Life, Husband Eugen Boissevain, His second wife Edna St. Vincent Millay) 
9. Boissevain Books (Children's Books, Memoirs, Bios, SciFi)