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It’s “Read an E-Book Week” as Smashwords, and your chance to get a copy of a Johnny Denovo mystery for 50% off the already low e-book price. Get “Spam & Eggs” or “The Green Monster” for $1.75 each now through March 13. Praise for “Spam & Eggs” This is a book that in fact puts [...]

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One of the most disruptive innovations in book publishing is the rise and now mainstream adoption of print-on-demand publishing services. The quality of POD books can exceed those of offset books, and prices are approaching equivalency. So it’s appropriate that one of the most interesting review and discussion sites for POD books is called PODPeople. [...]

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Christopher Meeks, author of “The Brightest Moon of the Century” and a member of Backword Books, interviewed me recently about the Johnny Denovo mystery series, the writing process, the concepts behind the books, and other matters of interest to readers and writers. Here’s a brief excerpt: CHRISTOPHER MEEKS: Your third book is due early next [...]

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  Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing RJ Keller, author of “Waiting for Spring,” a great novel about a woman in Maine dealing with divorce, rediscovery, and reinvention. The interview can be found at Backword Books, where she and I are part of a consortium of independent literary authors. Not only is the interview [...]

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The secret behind the author of “Spam & Eggs: A Johnny Denovo Mystery” and “The Green Monster: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” has been revealed, thanks to a podcast from the Copyright Clearance Center’s “Beyond the Book” audio program. Christopher Kenneally interviewed me in mid-October about the inspiration for the books, what I’ve learned through the [...]

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Another strong review has appeared for “The Green Monster: A Johnny Denovo Mystery.” I’m especially happy with this one, since it’s from a reviewer who praised the first book as well. With a series, you want to keep improving, and it seems I’ve been able to do that: In “The Green Monster,” Johnny Denovo takes [...]

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Today, under my real name, I’m the featured post on a great mystery book blog called MurderBy4. In the post, I talk about how the inspiration emerged for my Johnny Denovo mysteries and the concepts underpinning the series, but with a dose of reader-centric pragmatism: a highbrow concept is often the last thing you want [...]

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Over at GoodReads, I’m running a contest for 1 of 2 copies of “The Green Monster: A Johnny Denovo Mystery.” Already, a couple hundred people have entered. The contest ends November 4th, 2009, so enter now! Remember, this is a book reviewers have raved about: Looking for an absorbing mystery that is chock full of [...]

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Why must we dream in metaphors? Try to hold on to something we couldn’t understand. – Seal The Johnny Denovo Mysteries are based on emerging theories of how we think, how we reconcile internal realities with external stimuli, how we make decisions, how we blend rational and emotional thought, and how we express ideas, both [...]

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Image by Getty Images via Daylife It’s amazing how quickly a good cause can take hold and grow into a small movement. Only a few days ago, I was contacted via my friends at Backword Books. They wanted me and the other Backword authors to know about an effort launched on the Kindle Boards by [...]

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