Dispatch 1

Here comes Nate Moran!

      I’m South Florida author and retired journalist Eliot Kleinberg.
Starting today, a newsletter: The Nate Moran Dispatch. Starring Roaring 20s Miami police detective Nate Moran, protagonist of my four novel (so far) series, “The Adventures of Nate Moran.”
     The first book, Hypocrite’s Row, is set to launch Feb. 10.
     In weeks to come, we’ll be sending these newsletters about the book and its theme: The Prohibition-era battles between criminals and law enforcement in Florida.
    Those of you who’ve followed my Civil War novel, Peace River, since it launched in the summer of 2025, have seen the dozens of videos I produced about the book and the Civil War. Videos were recorded at numerous places, from the Peace River itself to Chicago to Civil War battlefields, and from Montreal to London to Spain.
     I’ve now done dozens of videos related to the four Nate Moran novels and their respective Florida themes. As I did with Peace River, I’ll be posting them over the next several weeks on social media and in the newsletter.
     Dispatches also will feature tidbits about actual people, places and events that inspired storylines in Hypocrite’s Row. (Freebie: There was a real Hypocrite’s Row.)
    I also will provide links to history articles, many of them written by yours truly.
     Other dispatches will provide tidbits about Nate’s family tree. Descriptions of “props” found in various adventures (candy cigarette, anyone?) Q&As. Quizzes.
     I’ll send you links to online coverage and let you know where and when I am speaking.
     And, of course, we’ll have a link to buy the book.
    Your assignment: Send in questions about Nate, Prohibition, Florida history, me, the writing process. Tell us how you liked Hypocrite's Row. (and tell Amazon too!) And sign up your friends and family so we can expand this newsletter. Oh, yeah. And tell them to buy the book!

      See you on the beat!

     (Special thanks to Neil Plakcy, www.mahubooks.com/)