TouchPoint Press I’ve never thought of my authorial activities as a business, but here I am blocked by the same impediments that most enterprises are facing these days due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. (I had to look up the “novel” part of that phrase to discover its meaning in this context, because I was darned sure COVID-19 wasn’t fiction.) Authors everywhere who have been readying to launch a book are stuck on hold. While my new novel, the legal thriller BLOOD ON THEI

BOB’S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS EPISTLE Dear Family, Friends, Citizens, U.S. Capitol Lend me your ears. Mine have not been serving me all that well lately. And I don’t think wax is the culprit. More like the din emanating from the U.S. Capitol and reverberating throughout the land. Okay, Bob, hold it right there. That’s a contentious way to start a letter at a time of year when we should be focused on charity and goodwill. Sorry, but the deluge of revelations attesting to the detestab

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 to checking those rankings, even while knowing the Amazon algorithm is a mystery, and the rankings aren’t always commensurate with sales. Sun For example, my book Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died, ranked way up there in recent weeks, zooming to No. 1 Best Seller status in an Amazon Kindle category and remaining there for 1

Here in southeast Florida, it’s hot, folks. Now, I’m a little weird: I love it. No AC during the day, 79 degrees at night, with a helicopter above my bed churning up a windstorm. I go dancing with a sweater on, while the gals in sleeveless attire are fanning themselves like mad. But I realize I am an anomaly. Lots of folks in these parts head for the beaches, where they plunge into the Wish no more. I give you this: https://tinyurl.com/y9pwtmwu. Give, as in FREE. Click on it,

Yippee ki yay! Spring has sprung in West Palm Beach. Warm-blooded creatures such as your faithful scribe have been watching the AccuWeather reports daily to learn whether a jacket will be required the next day, or a comforter needed atop the bed sheets that night. Except for two days, April 13 and 14, when the high temperature is predicted to be 79 degrees, not another day will see a high of less than 80 until the cycle starts all over again in the fall/winter. Which means –

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 grade school. Okay, maybe a few more; I don’t count the years anymore, since I’m not good at advanced mathematics. As a kindergartner in Muskegon, Mich., and an elementary pupil (yes, pupil; you’re not a student till at least high school) in schools around Des Moines, Iowa, I loved playing on the up-and-down board with a playmate on the other e

Yippee ki-yah ki-yah ki-yo! My new novel is done. Finito. Fini. Das Ende. The End. All that remains is the editing and choosing a final title. Plus, of course, a publisher. These days, a lot of authors create titles that include keywords, so their books will come up when readers enter the words in Google searches. That’s because an enormous number of books are available on Amazon, and a particular author’s book gets buried in the pile. Kindle alone has 6.25 million. Paperback

Hear ye, hear ye! Tomorrow – woops, we’re almost there – you can, if you have a Kindle or compatible device, get my current book for FREE. The title is MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died, a novel closely based on a real murder that happened in the posh, ocean-side town in 1976. All you have to do to get it is copy http://tinyurl.com/he5g5sm in your browser, and when the book comes up, click on $0.00 in small print (under, but separate from, the larger Kindle U

FREE!!! FREEBIE!!! A FREE BOOK!!! Was that loud enough? Do I have your attention? Okay, here’s the deal: Tomorrow, Monday, January 4 of this blessed new year, my book will be available at no charge – in other words, free (did I mentioned that?). I’m talking about the Amazon Kindle edition, which all of you technophiles can download onto your various portable devices and read to your heart’s content. Just go to amzn.com/B00QU3XIDM, and click on Kindle. The book is a novel, MUR