August 2025: First Day Cover Philatelic Exhibiting: A Master Class was awarded the Philip H. Ward, Jr., Memorial Award for Excellence in First Day Cover Literature by American First Day Cover Society. Click here to see the AFDCS press release.

August 2025: First Day Cover Philatelic Exhibiting: A Master Class was awarded the Grand Award and a Large Gold Medal at the Great American Stamp Show (G.A.S.S.) in the Philatelic Literature Exhibition. The exhibition was held August 14-17, 2025 in Schaumburg, IL.

June 2025: Due to the reappearance of some first day covers with bogus cachets from a large collection first found in 2004, I have made available the section of my FDC Exhibiting book dealing with bogus cachets as well as an article by Carol Shelton that appeared in the August 9, 2004 issue of Linn's explaining the history of the controversy.

June 2025: A review of First Day Cover Philatelic Exhibiting: A Master Class appeared in the Summer 2025 issue of The Philatelic Communicator, the APS Writers Unit #30.

April 2025: The discussions of a couple of topics in the first printing of First Day Cover Philatelic Exhibiting: A Master Class have been clarified. An updated Errata listing is now available.

February 2025: A review of First Day Cover Philatelic Exhibiting: A Master Class appeared in the Jan/Feb issue of First Days, the Journal of the American First Day Cover Society.

December 2024: A reviews of First Day Cover Philatelic Exhibiting: A Master Class appeared in the December 20th issue of Mekeel's & Stamps Magazine and in U.S. Stamp News.

December 2024: A couple of typographical errors found their way into the first printing of First Day Cover Philatelic Exhibiting: A Master Class. An Errata listing is now available.

November 2024: The new book, First Day Cover Philatelic Exhibiting: A Master Class, is now available.

July 2024: A release date of late Summer 2024 for the upcoming book First Day Cover Philatelic Exhibiting: A Master Class has been announced.

December 2023: Creating the Philatelic Exhibit Synopsis is now considered a philatelic best seller! Thank you everyone!

June 2022: A review for Creating the Philatelic Exhibit Synopsis appeared in The Philatelic Literature Review, the journal of the American Philatelic Research Library

May 2022: A review for Creating the Philatelic Exhibit Synopsis appeared in The Canadian Philatelist, the journal of the Royal Canadian Philatelic Society

February 2022: A review for Creating the Philatelic Exhibit Synopsis appeared in The American Philatelist, the journal of the American Philatelic Society

November 2021: Creating the Philatelic Exhibit Synopsis was awarded a Large Vermeil medal at CHICAGOPEX 2021 held in Itasca, IL, Nov. 19-21.

August 2021: Creating the Philatelic Exhibit Synopsis was awarded a Large Vermeil medal at the Great American Stamp Show held in Rosemont, IL, Aug. 12-15.

August 2021: A review for Creating the Philatelic Exhibit Synopsis appeared in The Philatelic Exhibitor.

August 2021: A review for Creating the Philatelic Exhibit Synopsis appeared in La Posta.

August 2021: Synopsis Tip #3, Don't Forget to Revise Your Synopsis has been posted

July 2021: Synopsis Tip #2, Getting Your Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the Synopsis has been posted

June 2021: There have been reports of an illustration on page 53 being distorted in some copies of the book. See the Errata page.

June 2021: Synopsis Tip #1, Using Your Synopsis to Discuss What’s Not in the Exhibit has been posted

May 2021: The first three books in a new series about Outstanding First Day Cover Exhibits are now available.

April 2021: The new book, Creating the Philatelic Exhibit Synopsis: A Master Class, is now available.