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name: Lawrence  Dudley
about: Paperback edition of The Hungry Blade coming July 6th!I am a graduate of the Washington Square College of Arts and Sciences of New York University. As a writer I’ve had the great good luck of having a variety of careers—a blessing for any author. I’ve been the assistant curator of a museum, worked for a radio telescope observatory and for several years I was the lead reviewer and feature writer for the Saratogian newspaper, covering the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and its resident companies, the New York City Ballet, the New York City Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, including special events and the National Shakespeare Festival, as well as covering other regional arts venues such as the Lake George Opera Festival and the Luzerne Musi Paperback edition of The Hungry Blade coming July 6th!I am a graduate of the Washington Square College of Arts and Sciences of New York University. As a writer I’ve had the great good luck of having a variety of careers—a blessing for any author. I’ve been the assistant curator of a museum, worked for a radio telescope observatory and for several years I was the lead reviewer and feature writer for the Saratogian newspaper, covering the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and its resident companies, the New York City Ballet, the New York City Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, including special events and the National Shakespeare Festival, as well as covering other regional arts venues such as the Lake George Opera Festival and the Luzerne Music Festival. I also wrote a wide variety of features including supplements on weddings, home improvement, job seeking and many others— great experience for any writing career.I’ve been a media and advertising consultant and I was in the web design and Internet consulting business, specializing in Flash animation. An early Flash adopter, I was the only upstate New York developer invited to the first Flash Forward Conference in San Francisco in 2000. I’ve also been professional political campaign manager including races for the New York State Legislature, including field operations, web, social media and the complete end-to-end writing, directing, videography, editing and placement of television commercials. I was also a regional coordinator for the Dean For America presidential campaign. I am a member of the Warren County Democratic Committee and Secretary of the City of Glens Falls Democratic Committee.My first installment in the Roy Hawkins series, New York Station, was published world-wide in 2018 by Blackstone Publishing, the book division of Blackstone Audio, the largest publisher of audiobooks in North America. New York Station was honored with first place on the Barnes &amp; Noble Independent publishers list of favorite books of 2018. BBooklist called New York Station “a thrilling WWII spy adventure with a classic love-versus-duty story, robust characters and a nice sense of time and place ... A good, solid thriller.”According to Publishers Weekly, New York Station featured “A multifaceted protagonist who’s a refreshing change from formulaic genre leads lifts this gritty spy thriller ... Fans of Alan Furst and Joseph Kanon will find familiar pleasures.”Forward Reviews wrote that New York Station was “a fast-paced and thrilling read ...evokes clear similarities between the Nazi era and today’s divisive political climate … New York Station never lets up ... A classic thriller full of twists and turns, New York Station is relevant and thought provoking.”Blackstone released the sequel, The Hungry Blade, in 2020. ...more