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Neil’s 2021 Year in Books
Take a look at Neil’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
Neil S. Plakcy’s Followers (445)
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Neil S. Plakcy
Goodreads Author
Born
in Trenton, NJ, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac & Jimmy Buffett
Member Since
November 2009
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/neilplakcy
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In Dog We Trust (Golden Retriever Mystery #1)
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2010
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9 editions
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Mahu (Mahu #1)
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2005
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11 editions
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Dog Helps Those
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2012
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4 editions
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The Kingdom of Dog
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2011
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7 editions
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Three Dogs in a Row (Golden Retriever Mysteries #1-3)
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Three Wrong Turns in the Desert (Have Body, Will Guard, #1)
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2009
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3 editions
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Whom Dog Hath Joined
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2014
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4 editions
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Mahu Surfer (Mahu #2)
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2007
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9 editions
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Dog Bless You
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2013
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3 editions
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Dog Willing: A Golden Retriever Mystery (Golden Retriever Mysteries Book 12)
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Squeeze Pages and Newsletters
Here's a new term I learned this morning, courtesy of David Gaughran's newsletter. Gaughran is a marketing guru for the self-published; if you don't already read him, check him out online.
His "squeeze page" is a box on the right side of his home page, in which he offers a free copy of his book "Following" in exchange for signing up for his newsletter.
That's pretty much the definitio
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Neil’s Recent Updates
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| I'm not a fashionista by any means, but I still found this story, of two women who inherit their mother's collection of Chanel items, very moving. Well-written and funny, with two very relatable heroines. ...more | |
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I picked this up because it won the Edgar in 2022 and was only 99 cents, and it was set in Hawaii. A bonus on all three counts. I loved it. Great plotting, intriguing characters, intense research that was clear to me because of my own research on Hawa ...more |
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I'm a sucker for royalty rom-com, and this one did not disappoint. Sunny works in her family's deli in Brooklyn and Prince Leopold stumbles in, running from the paparazzi. What ensues is a romance of convenience-- Leo needs a bride and Sunny needs an ...more |
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| This book brought me out of my reading slump. It was well-written and entertaining, and I enjoyed particularly looking for the Easter eggs that connected it to the original Great Gatsby, like the glasses of TJ Eckleburg and the light at the end of Da ...more | |
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I worked for a year at the Fulton Fish Market, and I was intrigued by the place. I looked forward to this book particularly because I wanted to understand the Mafia connections I heard rumors of. Instead, it was a much more broad-ranging history of fi ...more |
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| I liked the first book in this series much better, and I'm hard pressed to figure out why. Perhaps because I'd already learned about the setting, and the characters were no longer strong enough to keep me reading. ...more | |
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| Billed as "queer cozy" or "quozy," this book didn't live up to its initial promise. Some of the characters were too weird to be believable, and the protagonist, who is apparently dull by design, didn't engage my interest. I kept reading because the m ...more | |
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| I've been a Gregory Maguire fan for a long time, but this book just didn't do it for me. The brides are too weird and unappealing, and all I wanted to read about was Rain, Elphaba's granddaughter. The sections about other characters seemed like fille ...more | |
“They say that a few minutes each day of petting your dog can raise your serotonin levels.”
― In Dog We Trust
― In Dog We Trust
“On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, “Save the whales. Collect the whole set,” “Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now,” and “Half the people you know are below average.” Typical for the Eastern student body.”
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“On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, “Save the whales. Collect the whole set,” “Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now,” and “Half the people you know are below average.” Typical for the Eastern student body.”
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“They say that a few minutes each day of petting your dog can raise your serotonin levels.”
― In Dog We Trust
― In Dog We Trust
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I'm honored to be on your favorites list. Thank you.James Thompson
Hi Neil. Thanks so much for Friending me here. Lovely to catch up with you. How's the writing going?
Congrats on the release - it posted a little early. I've been waiting for this one.
Will do, Lori, once it's available at Amazon (in about a month or so). Right now it's only at the Loose Id website.
Neil, congrats on the new release! Gonna add it to Goodreads? :)
Thanks so much! I love Liam and Aidan too and am always glad to hear that others do! The third book in the series, Teach Me Tonight, sends them on assignment together to a summer study program in Bizerte, on the Mediterranean coast, to protect a student who has been threatened. Aidan rediscovers how much he loves teaching, and Liam's friend Joey shows up... leading to all kinds of complications! It's in the copy edit stage now so should be out in the next month or two.Best,
Neil
thank you so much for the friend acceptance Mr. Neil :)Tame
Hi Neil, thanks for the donated books for the contest at ebookaddictreviews! I won a few I wanted to read! Lori
Hi Neil,Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery author here on Goodreads as well as elsewhere! You need to join the Goodreads Author Program and link up to your books here.
