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Mike Addington

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Born

The United States

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http://www.southerntragedybooks.com

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Fiction, Suspense

Influences

Cocoa Beach Writers Group; school teacher Tennie Caldwell

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December 2012

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Georgia boy now living the good life in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Love the sun and ocean and stimulating ambience of our little town. Conversing with caring, intelligent friends makes my day.

While in the Air Force, I worked in a classified (since declassified) unit in Italy with eyes on the Soviet Union looking for any hanky-panky that might lead to our demise. Later in life, I thought the experience could be the basis for a novel, so, adding the Red Brigade terrorist group and an unwilling Soviet Air Force colonel who was forced to become an agent, I wrote my first novel (unpublished) "Treviso: The First Terrorist." Title subject to change. After writing the book and hiring a professional editor, who taught me many things, I studied my techni Georgia boy now living the good life in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Love the sun and ocean and stimulating ambience of our little town. Conversing with caring, intelligent friends makes my day.

While in the Air Force, I worked in a classified (since declassified) unit in Italy with eyes on the Soviet Union looking for any hanky-panky that might lead to our demise. Later in life, I thought the experience could be the basis for a novel, so, adding the Red Brigade terrorist group and an unwilling Soviet Air Force colonel who was forced to become an agent, I wrote my first novel (unpublished) "Treviso: The First Terrorist." Title subject to change. After writing the book and hiring a professional editor, who taught me many things, I studied my technique and read other authors with an analytical approach. Feeling ready to write a book of substance, I began The Home Place, the Roman a clef story of the suspicious deaths of two men in 1956. Having sent 200 queries to agents for the first book, I decided to publish The Home Place myself to see how it was received and whether, by the feedback, whether I had any real skill as a writer. The Atlanta PBS/NPR radio station book program "Between the Lines" selected The Home Place for their 2007 Suggested Reading List, which I feel is a real honor. Guests on Between the Lines include Toni Morrison and Jimmy Carter, so to be selected by the producer of a program of that caliber puffed my chest. Well, to be truthful, being an avid reader all my life, I thought I could tell good writing and thought I had done that in The Home Place but one can never really be sure how well they relate what they intend to relate to readers. Readers are the ultimate critics, after all. The Home Place was not written for the casual reader but for those who can insert themselves into the book. I call those people "sophisticated readers." If anyone knows a better description, please feel free to pass it along. I was very fortunate that the Barnes & Noble stores in north metro Atlanta were kind enough to host solo book signings for me and I did very well at those book signing, usually selling out the 20-25 copies each store ordered for the signing. Some outlets asked me back. I did three for the Barnes & Noble at the Mall of Georgia, which is the largest mall in Georgia. After a few book reviews by significant publications, I made a packet and sent queries to about 10 agents and Cynthia Neeseman of CS Literary and I began working together. She sent The Home Place to, the best of my knowledge, four or five editors, with good feedback. Most liked the book but felt it wasn't for them. Well, the trail grew cold as I began writing another novel, again based on a true event, which was the robbery of a rural African-American church by five white men in the mid-60s, in which two of the choir girls were taken hostage. I am currently working on that along with a science fiction book based on altered DNA in which . . . well better not tell too much. I am a professional copy editor for medical research papers, which allows me to work and write according to a schedule I can control, to a degree. ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 61 ratings · 23 reviews · 4 distinct works

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	Three Sides of the Tracks 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treviso: The First Terrorists 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Greetings to all: There are quite a few newspaper articles, book reviews, and other information related to the actual events that inspired "The Home Place" on a Facebook page I created.

I think it can be accessed without being a FB member. I copied the link then signed out of FB and pasted the link in my browser window and it allowed me access. As we all know, these things can be tricky. It may hav Read more of this blog post »

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Published on April 13, 2013 06:24 • Tags: crime, family-drama, southern-fiction, southern-literature, tragedy

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Beach Patrol: Life Guarding in Ocean City, MD 1966-1974

by Mark E. Landry

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“What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say."

Anonymous”
― Mike Addington, The Home Place

tags: behavior, character, honesty, truthful, wisdom

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“Matt and the judge’s eyes met, and Matt shook his head. “What do you have, Sullivan?” “Coroner’s report indicates probable drowning, Judge. No signs—” “Now wait a minute, counselor. What do you mean ‘probable drowning?’ You’re either drowned or you’re not. You have to do better than that,” the judge said.”
― Mike Addington, The Home Place

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“Jessie leaned into the car and stuck a finger in her face. “You started it. If you’d listened to me in the first place, none of this would’ve happened. That scum walking into my church like he owned the place. And you waving at him. For everyone to see. How do you think that made me look? Everybody in church thinking you and that freak are friends. And me just sitting there.” “Me. Me. Me. It’s always about you, isn’t it, Daddy? If you feel that way, what about Mother? Shouldn’t she be included? But, no, it’s how would Jessie Whitaker look? What would people think of Jessie Whitaker?”
― Mike Addington, Three Sides of the Tracks

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“It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod

tags: humor, memorable, wisdom

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“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

tags: dignity, life, survival

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“What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say."

Anonymous”
― Mike Addington, The Home Place

tags: behavior, character, honesty, truthful, wisdom

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“The only easy day was yesterday.”
― US Navy SEALs

tags: army, inspirational, motivational

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“... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

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