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After I posted an article about the coincidental ways in which several ostensibly disparate elements came together on the Easter weekend,...
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Apr 4, 20213 min read
Uncanny Easter Parade
David Fitzgerald While deleting a huge backlog of emails to avoid paying a Google fee on this Easter weekend, I ran across an internet...
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Jan 16, 20213 min read
Calling All Authors …
Rob Eagar, a book marketing expert and author of several nonfiction books, is the first person I’ve come across in the business of public...
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Dec 15, 20203 min read
Chance Encounters of the Literary Kind
Tampa Bay Chance encounters of related people or things in unlikely circumstances often elicit the cliché, “It’s a small world.” These...
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Sep 5, 20205 min read
Costco, Corona and Chaos
Costco Lantana, Florida It goes without saying that people are staying home much more during the virus (DV) than before the virus (BV) –...
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Aug 13, 20204 min read
Book Fever
Bookstore reading A pandemic can do more than send people to their early graves, create cabin fever for those quarantining or just...
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Apr 15, 20204 min read
Authors in the Time of Corona
TouchPoint Press I’ve never thought of my authorial activities as a business, but here I am blocked by the same impediments that most...
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Jun 9, 20194 min read
Book Nooks
Mark Twain When one ponders the state of the bookstore industry, a famous line attributed to Mark Twain comes to mind: “The report of my...
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Jan 27, 20192 min read
Book It!
The deed is done. I have a publishing contract for my new novel, tentatively titled BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. I suspect it will stick – the...
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Dec 6, 20183 min read
A Bloody Quandary
After a long period of newsletter inaction, your not-so-faithful scribe is back in the business of the written word. The drought was...
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Aug 28, 20183 min read
The Thrill Has Come
The life of an author is full of ups and downs, like the Amazon rankings on hiser (my gender-neutral pronoun) books. One becomes addicted...
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Mar 25, 20182 min read
Riding High
Remember the teeter-totter in the school playground? Do they still have those? I mean, it’s been at least 20 or 30 years since I left...
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Aug 16, 20173 min read
It’s the GOP, Stupid.
Kai Ryssdal Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace on National Public Radio, was interviewing James Patterson Monday evening when I tuned in,...
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Jan 3, 20161 min read
BOOK GIVE-AWAY
FREE!!! FREEBIE!!! A FREE BOOK!!! Was that loud enough? Do I have your attention? Okay, here’s the deal: Tomorrow, Monday, January 4 of...
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