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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Book marketing tips, anyone?

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The release of my next novel, Radio Hope , is coming up on February 1 and I've been busy building up a virtual book tour. A big "...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

Book Review: The Story of Texas Jack Vermillion

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When writing my book Tombstone - Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride 1881-82 , I sadly didn't have much room for some ...
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Book Review: The Day New York Went Dry

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The Day New York Went Dry by Charles Einstein My rating: 3 of 5 stars I picked this out of my collection of vintage paperbacks thinking ...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Book Review: A Plague of Pythons by Frederik Pohl

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A Plague of Pythons by Frederik Pohl My rating: 4 of 5 stars When I heard that Frederik Pohl, one of the Grand Old Masters of science fi...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Book Review: AD 410 The Year that Shook Rome

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AD 410: The Year That Shook Rome by Sam Moorhead My rating: 4 of 5 stars The British Museum Press is famous for producing clear, well-il...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Book Review: Nanok and the Tower of Sorrows by Jack Badelaire

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Nanok and The Tower of Sorrows by Jack Badelaire My rating: 3 of 5 stars This novella is by Jack Badelaire, better known for his excelle...
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Saturday, September 14, 2013

Book Review: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

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The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco My rating: 4 of 5 stars Umberto Eco is back with a typically convoluted novel that showed his zest fo...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Book Review: Lolito

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Lolito by Ben Brooks My rating: 3 of 5 stars I feel I don't read enough contemporary fiction so I picked up this book, published jus...
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Book Review: Wild Bill Hickok, The Man and His Myth

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Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth by Joseph G. Rosa My rating: 3 of 5 stars Wild Bill Hickok is one of those Old West icons whose r...
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Book Review: Cotswold Privies

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Cotswold Privies by Mollie Harris My rating: 4 of 5 stars I saw this in the Oxford Central Library and being a fan of obscure history I ...
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Monday, July 8, 2013

Tsarist coastal artillery in Estonia and Jesse James in Italy

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While I was away on my writing retreat in Tangier I popped up on the Web a couple of times. The organizers of the èStoria Festival, who ...
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Thursday, July 4, 2013

More on writing in Tangier

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As I mentioned in my last post, I just got back from a writing retreat in Tangier . Not only was it hugely productive but it shifted my thin...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Back from my writing retreat in Tangier

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I'm baaaack! After ten amazing days in Tangier , I'm back in Spain. I went there on a writing retreat to work on my next book, a n...
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Monday, June 17, 2013

Reader News for July 17, 2013

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Welcome to another Reader News! Two big announcements this time around. David Lee Summers , who recently did a guest post here on Resear...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Book Review: O Pioneers!

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O Pioneers! by Willa Cather My rating: 4 of 5 stars Here's how the West was really won, through hard work, perseverance, and helping...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

You never know where your books will end up

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A couple of days ago I needed a new book to read. Luckily my hotel in Ljubljana had a book exchange, one of those handy take-a-book-leave-a-...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

My book launch in Italy

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I'm baaaack! As I mentioned before, I was in Gorizia , Italy, for the ninth annual èStoria Festival. This history/book fair is hoste...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

Book Review: Legendary Beasts of Britain

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Legendary Beasts of Britain by Julia Cresswell My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Shire Books are short, heavily illustrated introductions to a...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

My fantasy novella gets its first review, and it's five stars!

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My fantasy novella The Quintessence of Absence has been out barely a week and it's already garnered its first review. Kathleen Keen...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Hitting that word count!

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As I mentioned in the beginning of the year in a post about my writing goals , I plan on writing 200,000 words of fiction in 2013. While tha...
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