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Star Chamber Show
The Star Chamber Show on Blog Talk Radio cranks back up tonight and I am honored to be the first guest of the season. Hosted by Seventh Star Press publisher Stephen Zimmer, you can count on the evening being a blast. Topics to be discussed will be my upcoming novel, The Speaker, the other …
Anatomy of an Authors Fair
This Saturday I attended the That Book Place Fifth Annual Authors Fair in Madison, Indiana. Hosted by Frank and Kim Hall, the event featured over sixty authors selling and socializing. This was the first time the fair was held indoors, taking up residence at the Indiana National Guard Armory. Not having to fight the wind …
Pneumonia
I hit early March on a roll. My latest novel, The Speaker, was in final edits. I'd gotten a good jump on the start of the fourth book in the series with ten-thousand words already written. My publishing house, Hydra Publications, had two books hitting the formatting stage of the process and would soon see …
Ask an Author
Today I will be on the Ask an Author forum answering questions on small press publishing from 1:30-1:50 pm. Tomorrow morning, I will be on the forum from 10:40 until 11:30 am discussing my writing, movies, who I'd like to have at my ultimate poker game and anything else you guys can think up. If …
The Speaker, Chapter 1
I am close to finishing The Speaker, the third book in the Victor McCain series, and I wanted to share Chapter 1 for your reading pleasure. Let me know what you think in the comments section. Chapter 1 Eduardo kept watch out the front window while Congressman Owen Grenville committed suicide. True, the congressman …
Favorite TV Characters
Over the years, there are several TV shows I consider to be my favorites. In this post, I thought I would take it a bit further and list my top 5 all time favorite TV characters. I love them for different reasons, but when I'm flipping through channels and I see them on, I stop …
Holiday Memories: My Mother
The person recording the video could have done a better job (and talked a lot less) but it's the one video I can find of my mother at Christmas time. From 2005, Christmas Eve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnclbdMf5Q
Holiday Memories: 16 Trucks
Back in my wicked youth, I worked for Toys R Us. When it got close to Christmas, we seemed to get one truck after another and I was on the crew which unloaded them. We would get about ten guys and form a line and toss the toys down the line, from the back of …
Holiday Memories: That’s What She Wants?
To say I was a precocious kid would be an understatement. Sometimes it paid off. We were getting near Christmas and I was sitting with my father on the couch. I think I was around 11 years old at the time. My father asked, "What does your mom want for Christmas?" Without skipping a beat, …
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