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William Manchee

Goodreads author profile

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http://www.goodreads.com/william_manchee

born

August 22, 1947

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website

http://williammanchee.net

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy

member since

July 2010

About this author

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William Manchee is an attorney by trade and practices law in Dallas with his son Jim. Originally from southern California, he now lives in Plano, Texas with his wife Janet of some 40 years. Manchee first discovered his passion for writing in 1995 when he wrote "Twice Tempted." He vowed then to write a novel every year for the rest of his life. So far he is on schedule as "Act Normal," Volume 8 of the Stan Turner Mystery Series is his twelfth published novel. The series is inspired by many actual cases in which Manchee has been involved over the years. His other works include "Death Pact," "Plastic Gods," and a nonfiction book called "Yes, We're Open, Defending the Small Business Under Siege" which has been published in eight foreign countri...more

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The Effect of Print-on-Demand on the Small Press Author

For those small press authors who survived the radical changes brought on by nine-eleven, Print on Demand seemed like a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case at all. Now suddenly the cost of getting published plummeted to the point that anyone could self-publish for $99. You can’t really fully appreciate the significance of this unless you had forked out $15,000-20,000 for a... read more »

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Books by William Manchee

Average rating: 3.65 · 358 ratings · 236 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Disillusioned (A Stan Turner Mystery #9) 2.96 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Undaunted (A Stan Turner Mystery #1) 2.97 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Black Monday (A Stan Turner Mystery #6) 3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Conquest Earth (Tarizon Trilogy #3) 3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Death Pact (Richard Coleman #1) 3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Brash Endeavor (A Stan Turner Mystery #2) 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Deadly Defiance (A Stan Turner Mystery, #10) 4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Uncommon Thief 2.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Civil War (Tarizon Trilogy #2) by William Manchee (Goodreads Author), William Timnick (Narrator) 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Liberator (Tarizon Trilogy #1) by William Manchee (Goodreads Author), William Timnick (Narrator) 3.48 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Series by William Manchee

A Stan Turner Mystery (10 books)
by William Manchee (Goodreads Author)

3.68 avg rating — 203 ratings

Tarizon (3 books)
by William Manchee (Goodreads Author)

3.47 avg rating — 83 ratings

Richard Coleman (2 books)
by William Manchee (Goodreads Author)

3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings

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Bouchercon, World Mystery Conference
Author appearance, October 04, 2012 09:00AM
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William's Writing

A Lawyer's Lament (Poetry)

1 chapters — updated Apr 02, 2011 08:50pm

Description: Recently I was surprised to discover that one of my poems had been published in the National Law Journal. http://bit.ly/gbzczT

Recipe for a Great Texas Mystery (Mystery & Thrillers)

1 chapters — updated Apr 02, 2011 08:32pm

Description: One day after a signing at a county fair I was watching a cooking demonstration and, being quite bored, got the idea to write my own recipe.

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Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)

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Vigilante (Shane Scully, #11)
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Plastic Gods (Rich Coleman #2)
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Defending Jacob
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Mystery Montage: A Collection of Short-Story Mysteries
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Crime Montage
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Inheritance (Inheritance, #4)
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William Manchee took the Never-Ending Book Quiz

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Taken (Elvis Cole, #13 / Joe Pike, #4)
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The Ghosts of Malhado
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