Not The Enemy
Nancy Townsley's debut novel, Sunshine Girl, about the evolution of newspaper journalism from Nixon to Biden, is due out from Heliotrope Books in April 2025.
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Newspaper retiree. My journalist novel, Sunshine Girl, was published in 2025 by Heliotrope Books of New York. Carson McClintock Is Not Dead Yet, a novel about a free Oregon commune for the indigent elderly, is forthcoming from Heliotrope in May 2027.
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