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Retired teacher and newspaper editor Howard J. Schwach started writing novels at age 78 in 2018 to empty his bucket list and to maintain his mental health. Vampire Liberty is his sixth published novel and he is already hard at work on his seventh, Ten Mile River. When not at his computer bringing his favorite protagonist, Dave Rifkin, to life, Schwach can be found working with senior citizens who want to write their own novels and memoirs. His popular Zoom writing seminar, sponsored by a local community college as part of its “Healthy Living” program, has spawned several published novels over the past four years.