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Sea Foam and Storm Surge: Safe or Infectious? 
DivinityPress.com Announces New Eco-Thriller Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam               www.amazon.com/Nocturne-Opus-1-Sea-Foam/dp/0988381176

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Sea Foam and Storm Surge: Safe or Infectious?

For Immediate Release

For additional info:  www.DivinityPress.com
Norene Moskalski, PhD      norene1@gmail.com      
1203 Hurlock Ct., Bear, DE 19701     www.NoreneMoskalski.com
 

Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam

Divinity Press, a new publishing house established in Bear, Delaware in August 2012, announces the publication of its first novel in November 2012. Divinity Press is a small regional publisher focusing attention on the writers and poets of the DelMarVA Peninsula and the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Region.

Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam is a fact-based, medical eco-thriller that examines the impact global warming will have on infectious organisms in our eco-system and throughout the world. International in scope, Nocturne asks the questions, “What happens when a genetically modified bacteria is re-engineered a second time? Do we fully understand the consequences of genetic tampering and our moral, ethical responsibility for the protection of our world?”

Debut author Norene Moskalski, PhD, writes that imperative into a high stakes medical eco-thriller where scientists struggle to strike a balance between their careers and personal lives while maintaining the balance of nature.

“Nocturne is a story about justice,” Moskalski says, “and our personal struggle to recognize injustice and correct it. Drs. Kate and Jake Connors are university researchers in Delaware who also serve as covert agents for a privately funded group of scientists dedicated to preserving the environment. Walking the thin line between activists and extremists, Kate and Jake must find a rogue scientist who released a recombinant version of Bacillus nocturne into the coastal waterways, and then prevent nocturne from spreading into the world’s aquifers.”

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Norene Moskalski welcomes invitations to speak at book clubs, conferences, schools, universities, and non-profit fundraisers. She may be contacted through her website at www.NoreneMoskalski.com. Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam is available at www.amazon.com/Nocturne-Opus-1-Sea-Foam/dp/0988381176
 

About the Author:

Dr. Norene M. Moskalski enjoys walking the beaches of the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, collecting sea glass, minerals, unusual shells, and artifacts from colonial shipwrecks. A naturalist and environmentalist by nature, and a medical diagnostician by avocation, she has a Ph.D. in University Administration from Penn State University, a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Slippery Rock University.

Norene writes about the intrigue and peril of university life. She strives for authenticity in her writing by visiting and researching all of the international places and university settings that she describes in her novels. Each novel presents a variation on a theme, using musical innuendos to move the action forward. Her plots revolve around the unexpected: what if the most beautiful things in the world turned out to be the most dangerous? Iridescent bubbles of sea foam – what exactly is sea foam? Your best friend next door – what does she actually do for a living?

Norene has presented her peer-reviewed, published research on faculty work at international business and engineering conferences. She has served as an administrator, professor, researcher, grant writer, and mentor at research universities for over fifteen years. She is a member of various writing and environmental groups including The Eastern Shore Writers Association, The Nature Conservancy, The Sierra Club, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, The National Wildlife Federation, and The Smithsonian Institute.

Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam is the first book in the new Kate and Jake Connors Series. Kate and Jake are university research professors who also work undercover for a secret scientific environmental group known only as the Agency. The Agency assigns operatives to environmental "hot spots" around the world, posting them at nearby universities as undercover visiting professors and graduate students. The agents must investigate and mitigate any threats to the environment, whether natural or man-made, in any way possible. Each novel in the series invites the reader to travel with Kate and Jake on their next adventurous, but very dangerous, assignment. 

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Saltwater Portrait
Norene Moskalski: Author motivated by the coast
New novel set in Delaware
By Melissa Steele | Dec 11, 2012 Cape Gazette, Lewes. Delaware


Norene Moskalski spends her spare time in Lewes and wrote her first book set in a Delaware coastal area.

Norene Moskalski has traveled the world visiting just about every coastline along the way. After vacationing in Lewes for the first time in 2004, she knew it was a place she wanted to return.

"Out of all of the coasts I've visited, I like the Delaware coast the best," she said. "I like the way the beaches are open to the public."

She likes it so much, she set the plot of her first novel, "Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam," along the Delaware coast.

Using her professional experience in academia and combining it with a twist of espionage, Moskalski wrote what she calls "a high stakes medical eco-thriller."

The book is about a couple of researchers at a Delaware university who secretly work as agents for an environmental group. They discover a rogue scientist has infected local waters with life-threatening bacteria and they must stop him before people die.

The idea for the book came to her while reminiscing about her doctoral thesis and remembering all the visiting professors she met during that time in her life.

"I wondered, what if those professors weren't really professors but they were government agents dropped into the setting?" she said. "It got me thinking that I could write a story about that."

Pennsylvania rootsMoskalski grew up in Hermitage, Pa., where she was graduated from high school in 1966. She continued her education at Slippery Rock University earning a bachelor's degree followed by a master's degree from University of Pittsburgh, both for English and secondary education.

Though she didn't plan it, she jokes that she got a Mrs. from her time at Slippery Rock along with a bachelor's degree.

Moskalski said she met her husband, Michael, during her first day at Slippery Rock.

"We were there two weeks before school started for band camp," she said.

Though in different band sections – she played the trumpet, Michael played contra-bass clarinet – they made a life-long connection.

"I still have my trumpet," she said. "It is something that I'd like to take up in my retirement."

World of academiaMoskalski worked for a few years as a high school teacher before taking time off to raise two daughters – Susanne and Lisa.

Returning to the workforce when her youngest was in kindergarten, she quickly found a job in higher education. She worked for Penn State University at Mont Alto before earning a doctorate in higher education administration from Penn State in 2000. From there, she worked at Temple University as a professor and assistant vice provost among other duties surveying the college's institutes, which are funded by grant money. Her job was to research what the institutes do and explain how they are funded, she said.

Higher degrees run in the family – Michael has a doctorate in an educational field, Lisa earned a master's in business administration from Stanford and Susanne has a doctorate from University of Delaware in marine studies and oceanography.

Moskalski's visits during the four years Susanne worked on her Ph.D. in Lewes convinced Moskalski that Lewes was a place she would like to someday call home.

"Some places we've visited don't even allow people to pick up shells or sea glass from the beach," she said. "I think Delaware has done a great job preserving the coast for public use."

Delaware daysMoskalski and her husband now have a home in Bear and a vacation home in Bay Crossing. Between traveling to Palo Alto, Calif., to visit daughter Lisa, her husband and their grandson, almost 2, the couple spends as much free time as possible in Lewes, she said.

"We love the beaches, the history, the restaurants," she said. "When we come to Lewes, we just feel like we're on vacation. People are so welcoming and the atmosphere is so relaxed."

Moskalski is taking a break before writing her next novel – a follow-up to Sea Foam. In the meantime, she is staying busy trying her hand at publishing other Delmarva novelists through her start-up company, Divinity Press.

Her book can be purchased at www.NoreneMoskalski.com or found at Amazon.com.

"My dream is to have a house on the beach, but I'll have to sell a few more books, " she said.



Come meet Dr. Norene Moskalski, author of the medical eco-thriller Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam, featuring the Rehoboth Bay Area, at BrowseAbout Books for a book signing and conversation.

The book signing will take place on Friday, August 2nd, beginning at 10:00 AM.
Location: 
BrowseAbout Books
133 Rehoboth Avenue
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware 19971
United States

NOCTURNE, OPUS 1: SEA FOAM
Drs. Kate and Jake Connors are research professors at Atlantic University's Institute for Public Policy and Safety, which is dedicated to peacefully resolving international conflicts caused by climate change. They also serve as covert agents for a privately-funded, scientific subdivision of the Institute known only as the Agency.   


While vacationing at Venice's Lido Beach, Kate and Jake witness one of the first cases of a normally passive waterborne bacterium infecting a human. Along the shores of the Rehoboth Bay, the Mid-Atlantic States, and Coastal Europe, one in ten people begin dying from exposure to the bacteria, and all of them are young adults in their twenties and thirties.

Racing against time and across continents, Kate and Jake must find the cure forBacillus nocturne, track down the rogue scientist who genetically modified the bacterium, and solve the mystery surrounding its specifically targeted victims . . . 
before it contaminates the world's water supply.