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I got word today that History Press, the company that published my true crime book “Silas Jayne: Chicago’s Suburban Gangster” is moving into the world of e-books. They told me that they plan to make Silas part of their first push into the new medium and make it available for Kindle. I am very excited [...]

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I had a very nice article end up in the Elgin Courier about my book signing at Springhill Mall in West Dundee, Illinois.  It was a great time yesterday.  I sold a few books and met a few people.  I had an interesting time sitting in the hallway in the mall.  It was…different. I am [...]

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I had my very first book signing at a Barnes and Noble today for my book Silas Jayne: Chicago’s Suburban Gangster.  It was a huge amount of fun.  It was a weird day with so many people out of town this weekend.  I still had a blast.  I got interviewed by a reporter from the [...]

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I am going to be signing copies of my new book Silas Jayne: Chicago’s Suburban Gangster at the Barnes and Noble bookstore located in West Dundee, Illinois.  That is next next Saturday, September 4 and I will be there singing copies and greeting people from 1-3 in the afternoon.  I do hope you can stop [...]

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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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I have now a few book readings and signings for my book “Silas Jayne: Chicago’s Suburban Gangster.”  I didn’t realize that this book would put me in suburban Elgin, Illinois, quite as much as it will.  I guess Silas was a big deal in Elgin, having lived there for some time.  I always think of [...]

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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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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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