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Just a quick reminder that if you have an e-reader that is NOT a Kindle (such as a Nook, Kobo or one of the many others from around the world) you can still get my books – thanks to Smashwords. I really like Smashwords.  I like what they are trying to do and the fact [...]

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Big news!  My very first audiobook is currently in production.  Yes, that means it is in the works, the voice talent is working on it and I’ve already heard the first 15 minutes. I am working with a voice talent named Steve Sherwood and he is fantastic.  He is reading my very first hard-boiled detective [...]

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That’s right, it’s finally here for Kindle and e-readers.  VICIOUS! Nature made these dogs, but man made them VICIOUS. It was supposed to be a quiet, relaxing, weekend getaway….the cabin is not deserted. It is the summer retreat of Jeremy Liden, an author who has just started to taste the fruits of success and the [...]

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The response to my book Sabotage: A Chronicle of the Chesterton Crash continues to amaze me.  I just got contacted by someone from the Duneland Historical Society in Chesterton wondering if I would like to come and do a presentation about the crash sometime after the first of the year.  Of course, I said yes. [...]

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I have been a fan of detective novels for years.  I love them.  I love hard-boiled detective novels.  I love film noir like The Maltese Falcon.  I have read all of the works of Dashiell Hammett and I am a huge fan of Michael Harvey whose Private Eye Michael Kelly haunts the streets of Chicago. [...]

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I also wanted to update all of you and let you know that next month, August, I am going to be releasing my first hard-boiled detective novel.  I am pretty proud of it and very excited about it.  It’s called Deklan Falls: One Against Many. Deklan Falls is a washed-up ex-cop who has now become [...]

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It’s an interesting topic that has come up before, given the sort of things that I like to write about.  When I am in the world of fiction, people often wonder why I dwell on such morbid topics such as murder and such.  I was once asked why I did not write about “puppies, bunnies [...]

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It’s a common questions we writers get asked: why?  Why did you decide to write about this?  This is the non-fiction writer’s equivalent to “where do you get your ideas from?” that we get as fiction writers.  Since I write in both mediums, I get asked both questions fairly routinely.  Close behind the “why” question [...]

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In October of 1933 a plane with seven people on board exploded over the skies of Chesterton, Indiana, on its way to Chicago.  Just days later, it was discovered that a bomb was responsible for blowing the tail off of the aircraft and sending it to the ground, ending the lives of seven people.  It [...]

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October 1933: A plane carrying 7 passengers exploded over Chesterton, Indiana, in the first act of terrorism against a commercial airliner. June 2012: The story of what happened on that flight is finally told! At Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble and Smashwords

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