The Latest News and Events

Donna and Diana Gabaldon at HNS2013

Donna with famed fashion designer and author Zac Posen at the Newport International Wine and Food Festival

Donna with Steven Tyler Of Aerosmith

UPCOMING EVENTS:

VINCENT’S WOMEN Book Talk and Signing

Wednesday, April 10, 6 PM

Barrington Books

184 County Rd, Barrington, RI 02806

Latest News

GILDED SUMMERS is officially an International Amazon Bestseller

PORTRAIT OF A CONSPIRACY recognized by Barnes and Noble as one of the five novels to render Leonardo da Vinci most accurately.

Donna has been contracted by a consortium of international producers to write a screenplay for a feature film.

Recent honors:

MURDER IN THE DUOMO: Da Vinci’s Disciples TV WINNER of the GOLDEN DRAFT AWARD 2022!

MURDER IN THE DUOMO: Da Vinci’s Disciples TV Pilot places as a Quarterfinalist in Stage 32’s Female Voice Script Competition

THE COMPETITION honored as an Editor’s Choice by the Historical Novel Society

PORTRAIT OF A CONSPIRACY now a current finalist in Foreword Magazine’s Best Book of the Year Award

PORTRAIT OF A CONSPIRACY awarded 5 Stars by Readers' Favorites

The King's Agent honored as a "Finalist" in the "Fiction: Historical" category of the USA Book News Best Books of the Year Contest

The King's Agent: New England Book Festival Honorable Mention Awardee

To Serve a King: Finalist: USA Book News Best Books of the Year 2011

Previous Events:

Friends of Middletown Library, Keynote Speaker, March 2020

In Newport, Rhode Island
at the Newport Mansions Store, 1 Bannister's Wharf
Saturday, April 25, 2019, during the Daffodil Days Festival
Saturday, May 16, 2019, during the Oyster Fest

Donna's Previous Major Appearances include:

Writer’s Digest Annual Conference (virtual) 2020, 2021

Newport Winter Festival, 2019

Newburyport Literary Festival, 2019

Historical Novel Society North American Conference, 2019

Newport International Food and Wine Festival, 2018, 2019

Writer's Digest Annual Conference, 2016

Hollihock Writers Conference, 2015

Newburyport Literary Festival, 2015 

Historical Novel Society Conference, 2015

Rhode Island Author Expo, 2014

Big Book Getaway, Mohegan Sun, Sponsored by the Mark Twain House, 2014

American Association of University Women Author's Luncheon, 2013

Historical Novel Society, June 2013

RT Booklovers Convention, May 2013

National Organization of Italian American Women, November 2013

Mount Holyoke College, Write Angles Conference, October 2013

RIRW, February 2012

Delta Kappa Gamma, Keynote Speaker, Fall Conference, October 2010