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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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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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