Keith M. Donaldson

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From my recently relased novel, "RUDE Awakenings" - "You conspiracy advocates will love this one - a secret cabal in our country has been dictating the foreign oil policy of OPEC.” – President Macdonald to a Joint Session of Congress.

"I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides -- the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be."
—Theodore Roosevelt

“RUDE AWAKENINGS” has been released and is available on-line at www.barnes&noble.com and will soon be in bookstores.
Here’s a little backstory.
By 2011, the American economy was in the tank; Congress in chaos; the financial recovery from the long depression of 2008, 09, 10 and 11 dismally languishing; crime increasing; the dollar steadily decreasing against the Euro; and the national debt spiraling out of control. The government had failed to retain manufacturing in the US. and following the 2010 elections Federal and State taxes were increased to pay for escalating social and health programs.
The Independent Governor of Indiana, Bryanna Dudley, had risen to national notoriety following a series of natural disasters that proliferated the Midwest in 2010. The Federal government’s disdain to increase spending in an election year left hundreds of thousands of displaced citizens to fend for themselves. So, she called on wealthy private citizens to donate money for relief.
She got the attention of one; financier, currency trader and former hedge fund operator, Mike Macdonald, now a philanthropic humanitarian and successful fundraiser. He joined Dudley’s effort and raised hundreds of millions of dollars from his billionaire society to privately fund her DOER program - Disaster Organization for Emergency Relief.
Thus began a relationship that created the new Centrist Party, and introduced it into national politics in early 2011. In 2012, a third party President and Vice President, US Senators and Representatives were elected to office, forever changing the American political landscape.

RUDE Awakenings to be published in early November 2009

    

Books by Award Winning Author - Keith M. Donaldson www.donaldsonkeith.com

Death of an Intern: a Laura Wolfe Novel by Keith M. Donaldson Laura Wolfe, a tenacious beat reporter for The Washington Star, tracks a D.C. serial killer who butchers pregnant women and steals their fetuses, dumping the bodies in an obscure part of the city naked and with no identification. When Laura is shown the body of victim number two, she recognizes her as someone named Janet who she had met at a reception for the Vice President of the United States.

 The victim is quickly identified as Janet Rausch and Laura begins digging into her background. When the public Janet does not jibe with the private one, Laura begins to question whether there may not have been more to Janet’s death than being a serial killing victim. The mounting evidence Laura accumulates stimulates her inquisitive mind into believing Janet’s murder was planned. The only one to believe that. Her startling revelation confounds both her lawyer husband and her best friend Max Walsh, Captain of Homicide for the Washington MPD. She persists anyway and goes from the dirty back streets of the nation’s capital, to the Virginia suburbs, and into the polished halls of political Washington, as the public is terrorized by a third murder very much like the previous two.

The Hill People is a Winner of a 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Award

The Hill People: a Laura Wolfe Novel by Keith M.. Donaldson Award Winner This second book in the thrilling Laura Wolfe series pits the savvy investigative reporter against pharmaceutical lobbyists and crooked United States Senators bent on keeping a miracle-cure cancer drug out of the hands of the American people. Rookie U.S. Senator Roanne Dalton suspects her senior colleagues are working with drug company lobbyists to pressure the FDA into rejecting a drug touted as the cure for cancer.

Short of committing political suicide, Dalton is powerless to act, but when local newspaper reporter Laura Wolfe wins the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, Dalton requests a private meeting and tells Laura what she believes to be happening and asks Laura to help. Not one to abandon a challenge, Laura is granted permission by her editor and dives into the investigation, soon discovering that those who work on Capitol Hill live in their own world. She is given a cover story so as not to raise suspicions about who is being investigated.

It was slow going until Dalton's top aide introduces Laura into the Hill's fabled underground where gossip starts turning to leads and murder. As her developing story takes on more twists and turns than a hairpin curve, Laura lands right in the middle of a deadly conspiracy, one that might spell the end of her journalism career—and her life.

In May of 2008, The Hill People was awarded twin Finalist awards in the Multicultural Fiction and Political Fiction categories at the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group.

Welcome to my blog

By Keith M. Donaldson

Welcome. 

I am an author and playwright, a graduate in drama, and have acted and directed over 40 years. Along the way (to pay the bills) I worked in network broadcasting production and local radio as an account executive, I am the founder of the Washington Flyer magazine and published it 1984 through 1986 having been a journalist/columnist prior to and following that. I matriculated into advertising as a creative director, and then on to owning my own Arlington-based agency; KMD Advertising. While still working in these various jobs, I added a night job: theater reviewing from 1979-1984 on WEAM "Big Band Radio", AKA Keith Montgomery, and continued covering theater through 1992 for three local magazines; writing commentaries and interviewing visiting celebrities.

I began writing plays in 1988, and resumed an active participation in theater and for over two decades I have been a member of the Playwrights Forum of Washington. Several of my short plays have been produced in and around Washington, most recently my one act, A Touch of Spring, was produced in 2008 at the Northern Virginia One Act Play Festival.

 In 2004, I wrote my first work of fiction and have since self-published two novels: Death of an Intern, a mystery and The Hill People, a mystery/political thriller, which won two awards. I have completed my third novel Rude Awakenings,  and am looking for an early November 2009 release.

I am also involved in my community and in 1990 was a cofounder of the northern Virginia Chapter of Habitat for Humanity and as Chairman of Building supervised the construction of its first house. I was a Meals on Wheels volunteer for six years and have been a proponent for educating/training the homeless. Post Katrina; I made two trips to New Orleans and one to Biloxi helping in their rebuilding efforts. I am married, live in Falls Church, VA and love golf, reading, travel, and spending time with my six grandchildren.