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Are you a damaged reader?

Have you ever wondered how such a poorly told story could be such a blockbuster bestseller? Have you struggled to arrive at the end of chapter 2, finally setting a book aside as hopeless, and asked yourself how so many of your friends can recommend it so highly? It’s happened to me, and if like […]

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New releases for ‘Our Cyber World’ and ‘Tracking Jane’ coming…

Why am I releasing two books from two different series on or about the same time? Insanity comes to mind. Having no clue about how to publish or promote books is another possibility. If you read through the end, you may find another clue. Brownie, episode 4 of the Tracking Jane series will come out […]

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Ghost Writer, now in-work again

A while back I mentioned I was working on a side story to the Our Cyber World series: Ghost Writer. Now that I’m wrapping up one novel in the same series for release in December (that would be Beisbol Libre, of course) plus a novella in the Tracking Jane series, I am starting to look […]

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Review: A Good Car by Julia Proud, A Well-drawn Noir Character Study

Lately I’ve enjoyed sharing in the work of fellow indie authors, and my latest exploration brought me to Julia Proud‘s A Good Car. In this story, we meet Ed Valenti over a card table. There, half-drunk, mostly uninterested with the game and life as he’s living it, he wins an old Model T Ford from […]

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If you’d rather say “Happy Holidays” this Christmas season…

Here we are, nineteen to twenty days before Christmas day, depending on your time zone, and what are we doing? Well, some of us are engaging in that highly productive debate on whether to say “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays.” Sure, because we prefer that over running around to finish out our <<insert-word-here>> shopping; or […]

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7 Questions & Answers about the Our Cyber World series

From time to time folks ask me questions about the Our Cyber World series. Just as often, I wonder whether folks have questions about how I’ve structured this series, among other details. Here’s my effort to address some of these queries. Note that as I provide answers, I will do so with minimal to no […]

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Review of Missing, Assumed Dead, by Marva Dasef

Kameron McBride reluctantly heads out to a far-flung part of Oregon to settle estate affairs for a distant relative. She learns he has been missing for quite some time and is now assumed dead. Hey, that sounds like a great title, doesn’t it? Something like, Missing, Assumed Dead, perhaps… Without the benefit of a death […]

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Beisbol Libre coming soon

Hope you enjoyed that brief teaser. Beisbol Libre will be the fifth book in the Our Cyber World series. Sign up to my mail list to qualify for a free preview before its release on December 30th. Here’s a quick blurb to whet your appetite. Synopsis Cuban baseball star, Camilo Ornedo was about to defect […]

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This Thanksgiving, how about we—Give Thanks!?

Another Thanksgiving Day looms near, and here I am, once more swirling with thoughts of a family get together, lots of snooze-inducing turkey, and all the things I can get done over the long weekend (no, not shopping, please)! But wait. I’m missing something. Again. OK, OK. I know it well. I should be thankful. […]

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Tracking Jane series, episode 5 cover previews

Sometimes I need a visual cue to get my writing rolling. Last night I drafted the first paragraph of episode 5 of the Tracking Jane series. As part of the overall concept, I went ahead and mocked up two book covers as well. I don’t know that these will be the final versions (they seldom […]

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