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I hated The Old Man and the Sea.  There, I said it.

Back before I was published, I never thought about genre much.  I just read what I liked, and I knew that what I liked fell into the loose categories of ‘science fiction’ and ‘horror’, and that I wasn’t a huge fan of ‘ ( Read more... )

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The legal profession seems to breed writers. John Grisham turned to legal thrillers, Scott Turow and Meg Gardiner the same. And who could forget the raucous and bawdy story of Tom Jones, penned (literally, it was the eighteenth century) by seated judge Henry Fielding?

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Phoenix Pick has a new volume in their “Free eBook-a-Month” promotion!

For the remainder of May, you can get an ebook copy of Code of the Lifemaker by James P. Hogan for free! Just use the the coupon code below.


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I began working in the music retail business in January of 1988 at JR’s Music in Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois. When I started there as a manager trainee, the best selling music format was the vinyl LP, cassettes placed a distant second, and all of the CDs were ( Read more... )