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It was interesting.  It was my first book signing at a big book store.  I had done a few smaller book signings at smaller bookstores and this was my first one at one of those major chains that you would know if I told you.  However, because this one particular chain continues to sell my [...]

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My new book is entitled “Silas Jayne: Chicago’s Suburban Gangster.”  I have had a lot of people ask me how the hell I found out who Silas Jayne was and why I would write a book about him.  That’s because a lot of people don’t know who he is.  He was one of the most [...]

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I have been writing for a long time.  I wrote my first work of fiction when I sat down in front of my mom’s electric typewriter when I was in the third grade.  It was a three-page, no punctuation, no paragraph piece of horribleness.  However, it was so much fun creating stories that came right [...]

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My new book is just about to hit the bookshelves.  It will be availabe in bookstores all over the Chicago metropolitan area.  However, you can now place a pre-order for “Silas Jayne: Chicago’s Suburban Gangster” at Amazon.com.  I feel Silas should be as well known and notorious as some of Chicago’s greatest criminals.  Guys like [...]

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I got some good news today.  The book pitch that I made to History Press was successful.  I cannot give too much away about what the book is, though.  Let’s just say that it is another true crime book and it happened in Northwest Indiana.  It is very exciting and the good news is I [...]

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So, I have this new book coming out called “Silas Jayne: Chicago’s Suburban Gangster”.  I am very excited about it as it is my first major move into true crime.  I love reading true crime, which probably also means I am on some FBI watchlist.  However, if I ever moved into non-fiction then true crime [...]

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Silas Jayne was a very bad man.  If you live in Chicago or know anything about Chicago you can probably recite some very bad men who lived here and did very bad things here.  You can probably say them with me:  H.H. Holmes, Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Richard Speck and John Wayne Gacy.  What about [...]

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