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“The Green Monster: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” is now available for the Kindle via the Amazon.com storefront. This week, e-reader formats of the second Johnny Denovo mystery have been making their way online, including an edition from Smashwords (for Kindle, Sony e-reader, and PDF); and a Scribd version. The addition of Amazon’s Kindle version means [...]

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“The Green Monster: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” is now available for e-reraders via Scribd, for purchase at $4.99. Yesterday, it became available at Smashwords. It should be available at Amazon early next week for direct purchase to the Kindle, as well (and print copies should be for sale next week, too). With all of these [...]

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“The Green Monster: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” is now available for e-book download via Smashwords. The book can be viewed online, downloaded in formats compatible with Sony, Kindle, and iPhone e-readers, and retrieved as a PDF. The cost is $3.49. This, the second Johnny Denovo mystery, takes our protagonist from the confines of FenwayPark to [...]

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A new venture for independent authors and smaller publishers called IndieReader has launched, presenting selected books (selected by “an editorial board made up of an editor, agent, book marketer and a consumer reader”) and promoting them to consumers across the spectrum of readers. The site’s already been featured in Publisher’s Weekly and Christian Science Monitor. [...]

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Image by phillenium1979 via Flickr While “The Green Monster: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” the sequel to “Spam & Eggs: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” is still a few weeks away, a local sportswriter, Bill Ballou of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, has been kind enough to comment on a preview copy I provided him in May. [...]

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A new book publishing initiative has been launched at Backword Books, described as: A collective of unique, strong, talented personalities who will embrace the idea of exploring a new paradigm. There are no financial ties here – this is a partnership comprised of a common goal. People read good books. The BACKWORD authors write good [...]

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I’ve created a video about the first Johnny Denovo mystery, “Spam & Eggs.” It’s not the most sophisticated video you’ll ever see, except for the music, which was cheerfully provided by the very talented Michael Whalen, whose acquaintance I was fortunate to make a few years ago. Thanks, Michael! The video showcases the intrigue of [...]

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Image by Eric Kilby via Flickr Lately, I’ve been busy getting the second Johnny Denovo novel, “The Green Monster,” ready to publish. This has included last-minute proofreading, letting new people read it to make sure it’s as good as possible, and dealing with the author’s version of stagefright. The reason for the stagefright stems from [...]

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Image via Wikipedia As an author, the issues of literacy and book purchasing always interest me. And since I write mysteries, I also like a good detective story. So when the two combined this morning, I had to write a quick post about it. Yesterday, a friend pointed me to an article decrying the lack [...]

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Image via Wikipedia Johnny Denovo will be happy to know that his public facade is being seen as a compelling guise even through the lens of fictionalized accounts. So far, reviewers have had the following praise: Johnny Denovo . . . is a great and unique private eye. Meet twenty-first century detective Johnny Denovo, high-tech [...]

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