How does Gregory Thackery, a novice reporter working for a third-rate newsweekly, scoop the New York Press, the New York Daily Tribune, New York News Journal, and the vaunted New York Dispatch, America's so-called "newspaper of historical memory"? Luck? Common sense? Hidden connections? Even the clueless Gregory doesn't know for sure.

Geoffrey Walters (aka Geoffrey Smagacz) is a former reporter for theTimes Newsweekly in Queens, New York, and the author ofNever Say Murder (republished in 2019)and A Waste of Shame and Other Sad Tales of the Appalachian Foothills, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction in 2014. Geoffrey is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Find out more at www.geoffreywalters.com or www.geoffreysmagacz.com.