Recent Events

—Bouchercon 2022: Excited to join fellow writers A.C. Frieden, Gray Basnight, Simon Gervais, S. Lee Manning, and Bill Rapp for the panel “Spies Like Us: Espionage Thrillers.”

—Pleased to have been a featured writer at Centuries & Sleuth’s famous Independents Day author extravaganza on Saturday, November 27, 2021, from 2-4pm. 7419 Madison St., Forest Park, IL.

Events related to the 100th Anniversary of the Red Summer of 1919

—September 26, 2019: David delivered a lecture, “The Seventh City: Omaha during 1919, the Year of Racial Violence,” at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln: Video.

—September 7, 2019: David was a panel participant for the Massachusetts Historical Society’s program Legacies of 1619 which was broadcast by C-SPAN: Video.

Events for the second Ellis Voigt thriller Rip the Angels from Heaven

Please take a look at photos of David’s 2018 book tour: Album

--April 6, 2019, 2-3pm: “Patriotic Traitors: The True Story of the First American Spies Who Loved Russia,” Talk at Centuries & Sleuths bookstore, 7219 W. Madison Ave., Forest Park, Ill.

--September 8, 2018, 2-3:30pm: Talk and signing at One More Page Books, 2200 W. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington, Va. 22213. Photo.

--August 11, 2018, 12-2pm: Signing at Once Upon a Crime, 604 W. 26th St., Minneapolis, Minn.

--August 9, 2018, 6pm: Talk and signing at Pearl Street Books, 323 Pearl St., La Crosse, Wisc. Photo.

--August 8, 2018, 7pm: Appearance with prize-winning novelist Lori Rader-Day at Mystery To Me, 1863 Monroe St., Madison, Wisc. Photo with mutual friend & fellow author Shaun Harris!

--August 3, 2018, 5:30pm: Thanks to all who came out to River Lights Book Store in Dubuque, Iowa, for the Platteville area book event! Photo.

--July 18, 2018: Such a fun crowd--including lots of old friends!--at Centuries and Sleuths Book Store, Forest Park, Ill. Photo.

--July 10, 2018: Thrilled to have more than 30 people attend the release of Rip the Angels from Heaven at Boswell Book Co., Milwaukee, co-sponsored by Crimespree magazine. Photo.

Past events for the first Ellis Voigt thriller The Dead Don't Bleed

--June 10, 2018, 10:30-11:30am: "The Many Faces of Mystery": David joined fellow novelists Molly MacRae, Michelle Falkoff, and Alexis Gordon for a Mystery Writers of America's panel at the Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago. Photo.

--November 4, 2017, 9am-5pm: Murder & Mayhem--Milwaukee. David was on the panel "Violence in a Violent World" with Shaun Harris, Danny Gardner, and Thomas Pluck. 

--October 28, 2017, 10am-2pm: David was one of several Wisconsin authors meeting and talking with patrons of the Friends of the Brookfield Public Library Book Sale. 

--June 22, 2017: Launch of the paperback edition of The Dead Don't Bleed at Mystery to Me, Madison, Wisc. Photo.

--June 10-11, 2017: Printers Row Lit Fest, signing at the Midwest Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime tent: Photo. 

--June 8, 2017: Mobcraft Mystery Tour with Nick Petrie and Lori Rader-Day at Mobcraft Brewery, Milwaukee, Wisc.: Photo.

The Dead Don't Bleed was read by Norman Gilliland on Wisconsin Public Radio's Chapter a Day program, Monday, January 23-Friday, February 10, 2017! 

Past Appearances

October 11, 2018: David spoke on African American veterans’ fight for equality after World War I at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, for The Great War Centennial Commemoration Lecture Series sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. More than 200 people attended! Photo.

April 28, 2018: The Platteville Book and Author Festival at the Platteville Public Library. David talked about the rewards and challenges of writing historical fiction. 

April 8, 2017: "You Build the Shelters, We'll Build the Bombs: How the Federal Government Prepared Galena for the Cold War": A presentation to the Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016: Signing and talk about The Dead Don't Bleed at the Dodgeville Public Library, 139 S. Iowa Street, Dodgeville, Wisc.

Bouchercon 2016, New Orleans: David appeared at the New Author Breakfast on Sept. 16 and was a discussant on the panel "All Tensed Up: Spy Thrillers" with John Lawton, Reece Hirsch, Matthew Quirk, and Mick Herron on Sept. 17: Photo. He also did a signing at Mystery Mike's table in the book room with Lawrence Block, C.J. Box, and Jeffrey Siger: Photo. 

Th., August 18, 2016, 7-9pm: Signing with Robert Goldsborough and Michael Black at Authors Under the Awning at Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, Ill. Photo.

Wed., August 17, 2016, 7pm: Mystery Writers Panel with Shaun Harris, Michael Harvey, Lili Wright, and Lori Rader-Day at the Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago. Photo.

Th., August 11, 2016, 7pm: Signing and conversation with Heather Gudenkauf at Schuler Books & Music, Lansing/Okemos (Meridian Mall), 1982 Grand River Avenue, Okemos, Mich. Photos.

Fri., July 29, 2016, 5:30-7pm: Signing and reading at River Lights Bookstore, 1098 Main Street, Dubuque, Iowa. Photos.

Sat., July 9, 2016, 3 pm: Signing and reading at One More Page Books, 2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington, Va. Video.

Wed., July 6, 2016, 7 pm: Signing and reading at Boswell Book Company, 2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisc. Photos.

Wed., June 29, 2016, 7 pm: Signing and reading at Mystery to Me Bookstore, 1863 Monroe St., Madison, Wisc. Photo.

Sat., June 25, 2016, 2 pm: Signing and reading at Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, Ill. Photos.

Sat., June 11, 2016: Signing at Once Upon a Crime Mystery Bookstore, 604 W. 26th St., Minneapolis, Minn. Photos.

Tues., June 7, 2016: Release of The Dead Don't Bleed and a conversation about the novel with Zbigniew Kruczalak at 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th Street, Chicago. Photo; Video.

Mon., April 6, 2015: Book talk for 1919, The Year of Racial Violence at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago, with Margaret Storey. Photos.

Mon., Feb. 23, 2015: Book talk for 1919, The Year of Racial Violence at Teaching for Change and Busboys & Poets, Washington, D.C. Photos.

Tues., Feb. 17, 2015: Black History Month lecture at Carthage College, 7pm. 

Oct. 2014    Discussion leader, Wisconsin Historical Society Reading Group, Madison, Wisc.

April 2014    “Why Don’t Americans Prepare for Disaster? Lessons from the Cold War and 9/11,” lecture to the Phi Alpha Theta chapter, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisc.

April 2014    Presenter for the session “Milwaukee: Community and Race,” Wisconsin History Symposium, hosted by the University of Wisconsin--Platteville

Feb. 2013    “Freedom’s Long Trek: The 1963 March on Washington, D.C.,” public address, Carnegie-Stout Library, Dubuque, Iowa.

June 2012    Teachers as Historians Summer Seminar, presentation (three sessions), Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Sept. 2011    “Awaiting the Sirens’ Call: American Encounters with Disaster Planning from Hiroshima to 9/11,” keynote address, Annual History Forum, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa.  Slide show.