Self Publishing – Follow the Yellow Brick Road

#selfpublishing #writing #publishing Publishing your first book is an adventure only to be under taken with the resolve to understand all the steps in the process before you begin. A good friend wrote me recently that his daughter had just finished her first novel and he wanted to know what advice I might have for…

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Blog Hop — Going from One Web Site to Another

Blog Hop. I never heard of one until a few weeks ago. But now, as the old story goes, I are  tagged in one. A blog hop, as it turns out, is a bit like a chain letter. The person tagged, in this case yours truly, chooses to participate by answering four questions on his…

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Blogging Requires an Unrelenting Search for Posting Topics

Blogging becomes a strict task master after posting a  few dozen articles. I started out with the notion that blogging would be a gratifying creative outlet. It has been. I also thought that it would help make people aware of my novel, Deadly Portfolio: A Killing in Hedge Funds, and there is some evidence that…

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Mystery Deepens When the Author is Truthful in Every Detail

  The article that follows was published several months ago on a web site that promotes articles for authors of mysteries and thrillers. For the last several weeks, I have been reviewing books for Norm Golden’s web site bookpleasures.com. Many of the books I am asked to review are an initial effort by the author.…

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Killer’s Art by Mari Jungstedt — A Review by John J. Hohn

Egon Wallin, a successful art gallery owner, slips away from his wife and home in the wee small hours of the morning. The day had finally arrived on which his life would change. This irrevocable decision had been a long time coming, author Mari Jungstedt writes in an opening chapter of Killer’s Art. Wallin, however,…

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