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Best 10 Big Books I’ve Read

Posted on October 16, 2021 by admin

A guy I know published a book that came in about 650 pages. It did alright. Got good reviews, but didn’t sell. So his agent told him to break it up into two volumes of about 300 pages each and … Continue reading →

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Put Two Genres in a Room and See What Happens

Posted on October 3, 2021 by admin

Back in the days when we had three channels on TV, we had three reading genres: fiction, non-fiction, science fiction. Yep, that was pretty much it. Fiction covered serious, well-written adult novels that ranged from the classics to contemporaries like … Continue reading →

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Crowbar

Posted on September 14, 2021 by admin

I like Mark Walker games. I have quite a few from the Lock and Load and Flying Pigs labels, and they are always absorbing, often entertaining. There’s a couple that I don’t take off the shelf that often, like All … Continue reading →

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Why I Don’t Socialize

Posted on August 29, 2021 by admin

More accurately, use social media. Because you’re supposed to. On every writing/publishing/author website dedicated to us “indie” authors, you know, the ones who can’t catch the interest of a literary agent or legitimate publishing house because our stuff is (a.) … Continue reading →

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The Ten Best Novels I Ever Read

Posted on July 18, 2021 by admin

At least, so far. Not the top ten horror or fantasy or scifi novels, although all three categories are  represented herein, but books that I still remember, still think about, still reference days or even decades after reading them. Without … Continue reading →

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Meet Frank. Go South. Then Look for Don

Posted on June 30, 2021 by admin

July 1st, get Frank Vaughn Killed by his Mom and Southern Gothic for free on Smashwords. Go here: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/dkrauss And, while you’re at it, pre-order Looking for Don, which is the last of the Frank Vaughn trilogy, and which comes … Continue reading →

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Public Service Announcement

Posted on June 2, 2021 by admin

I do not read my book reviews…primarily because there’s hardly enough of them for me to read, sniff sniff. But there’s some on Goodreads and NetGalley for Frank Vaughn Killed by his Mom and they’re generally what I expected: some … Continue reading →

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A New Lease on Life

Posted on May 27, 2021 by admin

If you’ve read John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War, then this is the follow-up novel you expected…except it’s not. John Perry, the hero of the first novel, is barely mentioned; indeed, he is nothing but an offhand remark in one or … Continue reading →

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In from the cold

Posted on May 17, 2021 by admin

I have wandered the bleak, apocalyptic landscape of independent publishing for nigh on ten years. scrabbling through the wreckage for a crust of book sale or book review, watching the corporations plunder the best seller lists and advertising venues, hovering … Continue reading →

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The Top 10 Horror Novels of All Time

Posted on December 14, 2020 by admin

The other day I ran across a video in which some guy listed the ten best horror novels of all time and well, no, no they weren’t. Over half them were more properly classified as scifi or thrillers, not horror. … Continue reading →

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