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Lance Ringel Inducted into the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival Hall of Fame.

The best gay male historical romances solidly grounded in time and place

Lance Ringel made recommendations about five of his favorite books that cover subject matter overlapping with his on Shepherd.com

2022 Lookback Part 2

2022 Lookback Part 2 - When I was a kid, there were two ages in later life that were deemed to carry universal significance.

2022 Lookback Part 1

Outside the door of the Studio Theatre at Theatre Row: actors Clint Hromsco and Riley Fisher, playwright Lance Ringel, and director...

'18 and '88

It's hard to imagine two more different summers than 1918, when Flower of Iowa takes place, and 1988, the setting for Floridian Nights.

Flower of Iowa by Lance Ringel Now Available in Kindle!

Flower of Iowa by Lance Ringel, the groundbreaking and award-winning novel, is now available in Kindle format from Amazon.

Flower of Iowa Wins Gold in the Foreword Reviews INDIE Book of the Year Awards.

Flower of Iowa by Lance Ringel received a Gold Medal in the 2020 Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Awards War & Military category,...

Flower of Iowa by Lance Ringel Wins a Bronze Medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards

Flower of Iowa by Lance Ringel won a Bronze Medal in the Military/Wartime Fiction category of the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Flower of Iowa Breaks New Ground Showing Romance Has No Boundaries

Lance Ringel's Flower of Iowa won Gold and Silver at the 2021 Independent Book Publishing Awards Ceremony, breaking new ground.

Flower of Iowa Named 2021 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalist in Two Categories

Flower of Iowa, by Lance Ringel, was named a Finalist in the LGBTQ and Fiction: Romance categories of the 2021 Independent Book Publishers

Flower of Iowa Named Lambda Literary & Foreword Reviews Finalist

Flower of Iowa, by Lance Ringel, was named a Lambda Literary Finalist and a Foreword Reviews Finalist.

The Play's the Thing - Second in a Series on the Creation of Flash/Frozen

When I visited the modest marker at the site of the crash of Sabena 548 near the Brussels Airport in 2001*, I had the idea of writing...

Tracing Back - First in a Series on the Creation of Flash/Frozen

I knew there was something so tragically compelling about the story of Sabena Flight 548, which plummeted to earth while trying to land...

The Christmas Truce

“The Christmas Truce really happened.” That’s the first sentence of Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton’s Christmas Truce: The Western...

The Plague Years

Back in 1975, when I was living and working in Washington D.C., I picked up a book just because it sounded interesting, and because my...

Liberty Memorial Reborn

I spent 21 years working on my novel Flower of Iowa before it ultimately reached the public. Some of my most intense research took place...

Seldom Told Stories: The Great War

The first place I started research on Flower of Iowa, back in the 1990s, was the huge public library on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New...

California and the Great War

Flower of Iowa, my World War I novel about two soldiers who fall in love on the Western Front in 1918, has taken my husband, Chuck...

From Page to Stage

“This feels like a play. You should make it a play.” That was the most oft-repeated comment from audience members over the years as the...