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JAWS In The Shallows
Well, that’s the best place for them to chomp down on you, after all. ————— [A scintillating new shocker-of-a-novel by Jonathan Kieran is slated for major release in Spring 2024 so clear your calendars, book lovers. This one is built…
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Happy Whatever-Floats-Your-Boat!
Now go and kill an orc! [A scintillating new shocker-of-a-novel by Jonathan Kieran is slated for major release in Spring 2024 so clear your calendars, book lovers. This one is built for speed. Stay tuned for more … ] #Turkey…
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If It Crumbles, It Crumbles … Singin’ the Hagia Sophia Blues
Oh, poor Hagia Sophia, if I had the faith of a mustard seed, I would say to you, “Rise! And get thee to Greece!” but, alas. Everything turns to shite in the end, they say. ————— [A scintillating new shocker-of-a-novel…
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Our Lady of the Cheesy Parlor Tricks STRIKES AGAIN!
Doubt not the intensity of my stance as a longtime Recovering Catholic, friends, especially when I see stories like THIS ONE. Oh, Hell’s Bells, we’ve heard this hogwash before in a number of different manifestations, usually with precious little variety,…
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Get ‘Em For Your Sophisticated Holiday Curmudgeons
At least one tantalizing list of 2023’s finest works of non-fiction literature is available for perusal. HERE’S A LINK to some works that might prove particularly enticing to that discriminating, non-fiction-ravenous ibis inhabiting your family or circle of friends, courtesy…
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If Big Publishing “Killed” the Author … Let Small Publishing Kill Big Publishing!
Marshal the guillotines for the Revolution! Well it may not be as severe as all that, quite yet. But some within the publishing industry are contemplating the fact that strictures and lack of foresight in various wings of “big publishing”…
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Shirley Jackson is Even More Relevant After Halloween
Once in a while I will get the vague inclination to revisit the twisted-yet-mundane classic stories of writer Shirley Jackson. That was her great literary power, after all: taking the mundane and then twisting it into a pretzel-panorama of abject…
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Dukes of Hazzard Reboot Possible?
What WILL the glorious and bastions of talent, originality, and innovation ruling Hollywood think of NEXT?!? PREPARE THE SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS! FACELIFTS, BUTTLIFTS, CHIN-TUCKS, and BIGGER BOOBS for EVERYONE! ——————— [A scintillating new shocker-of-a-novel by Jonathan Kieran is slated for major…
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WE Rule the Waves, Whippersnappers!
As a great white shark fanatic and surfer (or ex-surfer … does any surfer ever stop being a surfer?) I have all kinds of exciting feelins about articles of THIS NATURE. ———— [A scintillating new shocker-of-a-novel by Jonathan Kieran is…
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The New Yorker Delivers the Scoop on BIG Publishing and Its Affect on … Well, PUBLISHING!
THIS IS a pretty comprehensive under-the-microscope attempt to peek at the nitty gritty behind the age of colossal, corporate publishing and how that twelve-headed hydra has changed the entire ethos of what it means to be an “author” in the…
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