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Carole Claps

Carole Claps

Carole Claps has been in the business of show business for more than 25 years having been the go-to person for press and marketing at leading regional theaters and for independent producers of stage and screen, including the late 20th Century Fox producer, Henry Weinstein. Claps was the on-air theater critic for local cable television, and senior arts editor for 10 Connecticut newspapers for which she was the recipient of numerous national and regional awards for her writing and layout design. Having spent the better part of the last decade working in New York City for Fortune 500 companies, she is glad to be back home, working locally and volunteering at area nonprofit arts organizations.

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Carole Claps

Fiction

In “GOTCHA!,” Trump Rages, the World Tilts, and Life Goes On

Toxic power; a delusional president; despicable characters; lies, sex and audiotapes; and a basket overflowing with deplorables. Now throw in hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19 — just because we can and they actually did — and what you get is a GOTCHA!: Inside Trump’s 2020 Campaign (South Street Books) by…
Carole Claps
January 5, 2021
Nonfiction

Rachel Maddow: Traversing the Political Divide

Lisa Rogak’s well-researched Rachel Maddow: A Biography (Thomas Dunne Books) details Maddow’s life from growing up in the conservative town of Castro Valley, CA, as the youngest child of Elaine and Robert Maddow to becoming the popular and brilliant superstar political pundit for MSNBC-TV on the Emmy award-winning  The Rachel…
Carole Claps
January 7, 2020
Book Club NetworkFiction

The Powerful Woman Behind Winston Churchill

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Lady-Clementine-Marie-Benedict.jpg With the publication of Lady Clementine (Sourcebooks Landmark), Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman in the Room, (read our review here) provides readers a story so beautifully written and filled with historical fact and colorful fiction it becomes almost impossible to put down until the…
Carole Claps
January 6, 2020
Fiction

Forget Rudolph — A Holiday Book With Flying Polar Bears!

It’s flu season and Santa’s reindeer have come down with noses redder than Rudolph’s. With temperatures all on the rise, the reindeer all have been sidelined for Santa’s Christmas Eve ride. Now what? Why flying polar bears, of course!! In Stanley Wiklinski’s debut children’s book, The Christmas That Almost Never…
Carole Claps
December 10, 2018
Nonfiction

October is National Cookbook Month – Get Cooking!

It’s fall and in most regions it’s beginning to get a little chilly in the evenings. Sweaters are starting to come out of the mothballs they’ve been resting in all summer long, blankets are being tucked into beds once again, decorative throws are being tossed on sofas, and logs from…
Carole Claps
October 13, 2017
Nonfiction

War Photographer Robert Cunningham Honors our Veterans

Few civilians have captured the service of our active military and veterans as vividly as embedded war photographer Robert L. Cunningham. Embed War Photographer Robert L. Cunningham He has worked throughout Afghanistan, primarily beside the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry, 10th Mountain, and 101st Airborne Divisions. He recently returned from his…
Carole Claps
November 11, 2015

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