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Michael Connelly’s The Crossing – Book Review
Book Review - This is a very good Harry Bosch novel by Michael Connelly. You don't need to know anything else. Connelly is the best in the business. The stories are always about watching Harry Bosch slowly pick at the threads of a mystery, one thread at a time until...
“A Wanted Man ” suspense thriller by Lee Child – Book Review
A Wanted Man - I'm not sure what Lee Child has against Nebraska and its surrounding states, but he has placed several recent novels in that setting. Not just Nebraska, but Nebraska in winter, with flat, cold, muddy, stubbly cornfields. This story, like a wanted man,...
Chapter 1 of My Next Book — My Writing Blog #4
Chapter 1 of My Next Book-I have been busily working away (well, not all that busily) on book #3 in the Bob Burke action thriller novels, following on the heels of Burke's Gamble which came out on March 1 of this year. The new book has a working title of Burke's...
The New Kindle Normalized Page Counts — My Writing Blog #3
If you’re a writer, I’ll bet you didn’t know Kindle came out with an all new KENPC or Kindle Edition Normalized Page Counts on February 1, did you? Like a lot of things, they just, “slipped it under the door.” My last blog post took up the subject of the Kindle...
Writing Blog — Kindle Unlimited: The New Paperback
Kindle Unlimited - I believe that the Kindle Unlimited program which Amazon rolled out a year and a half a year ago will prove to be the most revolutionary step in publishing since the e-book itself, and perhaps since the first paperback book was published in 1939 by...
How Writers Write — My Writing Blog
How Writers Write - With my eighth book now out on Kindle, I thought I would start a blog page and periodically share some thoughts and information on writing. Ever since I began writing, I've been fascinated by the way successful writers write – – the physical and...
“Burke’s Gamble” Book #2 in the Bob Burke Thriller Novel Series
"Burke's Gamble" - It is the ‘American Sniper’ meets ‘The Godfather,’ Round #2, or Bob Lee Swagger takes on the New York City mob. In last year’s best selling "Burke’s War," Bob Burke witnessed a woman being murdered, and ends up butting heads with the Chicago Mob. In...
The Heist – Book Review – Daniel Silva’s spy novel
The Heist - Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon stories are always entertaining and he's one of the best writer of spy novels in the business, but I'm beginning to have three bones to pick with his story telling. First, too many of his books have the same "let's get her...
‘Freedom’s Forge’ by Arthur Herman – How US Industry and WW II
"Freedom's Forge" is an excellent book and a must read for anyone interested in business history. It is the story of how US business ramped up from a dead start during the depression and produced all those tanks, airplanes, and ships that won WW II not only for the...