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October 30, 2013

Nancy Freedman's Joshua Son of None - FREE Download 10/29 - 11/2

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“Beautifully written … mind grabbing …”

Variety

“Read this book, if you read no other.”

El Paso Times

“Intriguing … imaginative … fast moving …”

Cleveland Press

“A dazzling feat of the imagination!”

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

“A classic novel that will set the pace for years to come.”

Oceanside Blade-Tribune

“… bends the mind …”

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Nancy Freedman's Joshua Son of None - FREE Download 10/29 - 11/2

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“Beautifully written … mind grabbing …”

Variety

“Read this book, if you read no other.”

El Paso Times

“Intriguing … imaginative … fast moving …”

Cleveland Press

“A dazzling feat of the imagination!”

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

“A classic novel that will set the pace for years to come.”

Oceanside Blade-Tribune

“… bends the mind …”

Macon Georgian
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Published on October 30, 2013 12:47

Suspense Radio One On One with Ken Atchity

The Messiah Matrix, by Kenneth John Atchity



The Messiah Matrix

by Kenneth John Atchity

A gold coin reveals the true origins of Christianity.

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on tour with his latest book and Suspense Radio is a tour stop where
you can hear Ken talk about his work.



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October 26, 2013

Santa Clara Magazine Features Dennis M. Walsh's Nobody Walks

 Santa Clara Magazine



Thicker than water



This guy’s a lawyer? That’s what a number of the meth addicts, petty criminals, prostitutes, and porn stars involved with the gruesome 2003 murder of Christopher Walsh wondered about his relentless, tough-talking brother Dennis.

But, indeed, Dennis Walsh J.D. ’82, oldest son of a Cleveland cop-turned-Los Angeles-mobster, is a long-practicing criminal defense attorney. And much of the tension early in Nobody Walks (Thomas Dunne Books, 2013)—a gritty, hard-boiled account of his efforts to keep the case from going cold and bring Christopher’s killers to justice—derives from just how close Walsh came to stepping outside the limits of the law.

“Nobody walks” was the mantra—or threat—that Dennis Walsh repeated endlessly to a dizzying parade of fearful, low-life potential witnesses he hoped to convince to come forward and testify against the self-styled criminal mastermind who murdered Christopher when the two shared an apartment in Studio City, Calif. Walsh’s other brothers, some with criminal pasts like their father’s, wanted to dispense with legal niceties and exact vengeance on their own. Luckily, the police and prosecutors were just about as dedicated as the Walsh brothers themselves.

At the time of Christopher’s murder, Walsh was estranged from his youngest brother—whom the reader surmises was an addict and not a particularly nice guy. Still, Walsh makes it clear that he believes—rightly—that justice is for everyone, not just upright citizens. He also makes it clear that for the Walsh family blood is much thicker than water. 



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Published on October 26, 2013 00:00

October 25, 2013

Dead End Follies Reviews Rudy Yuly's Sparkle







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 ''Uh, huh,'' he said. ''Okay.''

Don't let that strange cover fool you. It would be easy to do so. Rudy Yuly isn't some Sunday auteur with raunchy taste in design, the man can write a little and SPARKLE has quite an interesting background story Yuly details in the foreword. It's one of those stories that traveled a lot more than you might think. So don't let that cover fool you, there is a narrative purpose behind this bizarre choice. I'm asking you not to judge the book by its cover, here. I know it's difficult because it's the only thing you know about SPARKLE, but bear with me. Keep reading. You'll discover a flawed, but lively novel filled with original ideas and odd storytelling choices.

SPARKLE is the story of Joe and Eddie Jones, brothers and owners of ''Sparkle Cleaners'' a crime scene cleaning company. Joe is managing the outfit and Eddie is doing the actual cleaning work, which makes Joe feel like he's living from his brother's skill. Only problem is that Eddie is autistic, so he needs Joe too. Following a recent string of murders in town, ''Sparkle Cleaners'' have been working overtime while trying to breathe a little hope in their respective lives. Joe is getting closer to LaVonne, the bartender at his local watering hole and Eddie is hung up on zookeeper Jolie, who has another man hung up on her: her boss Mark. That's a much more difficult relationship to handle.

I loved Eddie. Thought the segments narrated through his point of view were original, fun and oh-so-autistic. I believe it's important not to use a variable like autism lightly, for storytelling purpose. Eddie is beautifully dysfunctional. He uses about four or five sentences maximum to communicate. Trying to decipher different meanings behind the same sentence over and over again was somewhat of a sport to me, as I was reading SPARKLE. I would've taken a complete novel narrated from Eddie's point of view. That is both good and bad since it somewhat invalidates Joe, who has ''grown up problems'' of bills to pay and low self-esteem which would have been cool if they would'n't have been juxtaposed to his autistic brother's surreal relationship with a zookeeper who is struggling with her own attraction to an autistic man. That made Joe's problem a little inane and lifeless in comparison and that becomes a problem since Joe's storyline is taking a good chunk of the novel.

Threatening wisps of chaos were forming everywhere, wafting through the air. They looked like smoke, like dirty little opaque clouds. They gave off a sickly cold chill. Chaos meant too much stimulation, and too much stimulation shut Eddie down. Then he had no self-control or memory. Then he had to go wherever his thoughts dragged him.

SPARKLE is a character-driven novel and is unapologetic about being so, which handicaps the mystery a little bit. It's difficult to know who the bad guy really is. There is an anonymous killer character who comes up in the first few chapters, only to go silent until the final pages. Joe and Eddie are never unto him and the killer never really threatens them. Quite frankly, it was a nice twist, but I think the novel could've existed without that character. I thought Mark was a much more capable antagonist, Rudy Yuly seemed to disagree about that. As sick and manipulative as Mark could get, Yuly wrapped him in just enough pathos to give his action a justification. Not a good justification, mind you, Mark is still a looser, but I thought the pathos was too great for the character and that it dragged power from what could have been a remarkably twisted antagonist.

I read a lot of books, so stories like SPARKLE, that challenge the way stories are usually written, are a breath of fresh air for me. I found it to be a little melodramatic and feel-good for my own aesthetic tastes, but I'll admit it's a fascinating character-driven novel that walks to its own drum. Eddie Jones is a tremendous creation, a character that breaks down the challenges of autism on the page. SPARKLE might not be a cover-to-cover succcess, yet it's owning what it's trying to be and manages to keep its coherence and relevancy. Why break your reading routine and read SPARKLE? Why wouldn't you? It's a story that came too far to be stopped and that is bound to find a massive audience.
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October 24, 2013

Clint Hill Sets Facts Straight on Kennedys

Secret Service Agent Clint Hill talks about his days with President
Kennedy and his family during the Altamont Community Banquet Saturday
evening. Hill is perhaps best known for jumping on the back of the
presidential limousine during the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy in an effort to protect First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

- See more at:
http://effinghamdailynews.com/local/x...





Secret Service Agent Clint Hill talks about his days with President
Kennedy and his family during the Altamont Community Banquet Saturday
evening. Hill is perhaps best known for jumping on the back of the
presidential limousine during the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy in an effort to protect First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

- See more at:
http://effinghamdailynews.com/local/x...




Secret Service Agent Clint Hill talks about his days with President Kennedy and his family during the Altamont Community Banquet Saturday evening. Hill is perhaps best known for jumping on the back of the presidential limousine during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in an effort to protect First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.


Bill Grimes Effingham Daily News







 

ALTAMONT — Many books have been written and many films have been produced about the life of President John F. Kennedy.

But a retired Secret Service agent who witnessed the president's assassination told a group of more than several hundred people at the Altamont Community Banquet Saturday that the repeated historical inaccuracies, particularly in films about the Kennedys, led him to write his own account of life with the First Family.

Special Agent Clint Hill is the author of "Mrs. Kennedy and Me," an account of the three years he spent providing Secret Service protection to the First Family, primarily First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

Hill told the group that he was particularly disappointed in "JFK," the Oliver Stone film of the early 1990s.

"The Oliver Stone movie was a travesty," Hill said. "It gave the people the wrong idea about what happened in Dallas.

"It was phony."

Hill wrote the book with the help of co-author Lisa McCubbin, who also assisted with Hill's presentation Saturday.

"It was kind of interesting to watch these films with Clint because he'd scream at the TV," McCubbin said. "He wanted people to know the truth."

Saturday's presentation was conducted with the help of a slideshow shown on a large screen behind the podium and a unique dual-speaker format where McCubbin would ask Hill a question and then give the mic to the agent for elaboration.

Hill was born in North Dakota, but given to an orphanage when he was 17 days old because his mother knew she couldn't care for him during the depths of the Great Depression. Soon afterward, he was adopted by Chris and Jennie Hill and raised in Washburn, N.D. He later graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn.

Hill was no rookie agent when Kennedy took office on Jan. 20, 1961, with has first assignment having been protecting President Eisenhower.

"We had a wonderful time working with him," Hill said. "He was a very congenial man."

Hill spent much of his presentation talking about how different Mrs. Kennedy was from previous first ladies.

"Mrs. Kennedy wasn't like the other First Ladies," Hill said, adding that the First Lady was an accomplished horsewoman who also served as a goodwill ambassador for her husband on overseas trips.

"Mrs. Kennedy was very adventurous," he said, recalling the time when she and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, hopped aboard a camel on a trip to Pakistan.

"First, they got on the camel. Secondly, they got to riding it. Then, she takes the reins and swats him on the rump and they move on.

"The Pakistan officials were scared to death."

After sharing more anecdotal information, Hill talked about that fateful Texas trip that ended with Kennedy's assassination. All went well, he said, until the motorcade through downtown Dallas.

"There was a very sharp angle between Houston and Elm Streets where you really had to slow down," he said. "I was in the first car behind the President and First Lady.

"I heard this explosive noise over my right shoulder," he said. "I saw the president had grabbed his throat, so I jumped off the running board to get on top of the rear of their car.

"As I ran, I heard a second shot. As I approached, there was a third shot."

Hill recalled that President Kennedy couldn't duck out of the line of fire because of the back brace he was wearing, putting him in position for the fatal third shot, which destroyed the right side of his head.

The presidential car quickly traveled to nearby Parkland Hospital, where the president was pronounced dead.

Hill recounted the aftermath of Kennedy's assassination and his service under President Lyndon Johnson. He continued to work for the Secret Service until his retirement.

McCubbin had one final question for the old agent.

"It's been almost 50 years. Many people say there was a conspiracy. What is the truth?"

Hill said there was no evidence of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.

"Only three shots were fired in Dealey Plaza," Hill said. "All three shots came from the same direction and were fired by the same rifle, by the same individual.

"All credible evidence shows that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone."



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Clint Hill Sets Facts Straight on Kennedys

Secret Service Agent Clint Hill talks about his days with President
Kennedy and his family during the Altamont Community Banquet Saturday
evening. Hill is perhaps best known for jumping on the back of the
presidential limousine during the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy in an effort to protect First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

- See more at:
http://effinghamdailynews.com/local/x...





Secret Service Agent Clint Hill talks about his days with President
Kennedy and his family during the Altamont Community Banquet Saturday
evening. Hill is perhaps best known for jumping on the back of the
presidential limousine during the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy in an effort to protect First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

- See more at:
http://effinghamdailynews.com/local/x...




Secret Service Agent Clint Hill talks about his days with President Kennedy and his family during the Altamont Community Banquet Saturday evening. Hill is perhaps best known for jumping on the back of the presidential limousine during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in an effort to protect First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.


Bill Grimes Effingham Daily News







 

ALTAMONT — Many books have been written and many films have been produced about the life of President John F. Kennedy.

But a retired Secret Service agent who witnessed the president's assassination told a group of more than several hundred people at the Altamont Community Banquet Saturday that the repeated historical inaccuracies, particularly in films about the Kennedys, led him to write his own account of life with the First Family.

Special Agent Clint Hill is the author of "Mrs. Kennedy and Me," an account of the three years he spent providing Secret Service protection to the First Family, primarily First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

Hill told the group that he was particularly disappointed in "JFK," the Oliver Stone film of the early 1990s.

"The Oliver Stone movie was a travesty," Hill said. "It gave the people the wrong idea about what happened in Dallas.

"It was phony."

Hill wrote the book with the help of co-author Lisa McCubbin, who also assisted with Hill's presentation Saturday.

"It was kind of interesting to watch these films with Clint because he'd scream at the TV," McCubbin said. "He wanted people to know the truth."

Saturday's presentation was conducted with the help of a slideshow shown on a large screen behind the podium and a unique dual-speaker format where McCubbin would ask Hill a question and then give the mic to the agent for elaboration.

Hill was born in North Dakota, but given to an orphanage when he was 17 days old because his mother knew she couldn't care for him during the depths of the Great Depression. Soon afterward, he was adopted by Chris and Jennie Hill and raised in Washburn, N.D. He later graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn.

Hill was no rookie agent when Kennedy took office on Jan. 20, 1961, with has first assignment having been protecting President Eisenhower.

"We had a wonderful time working with him," Hill said. "He was a very congenial man."

Hill spent much of his presentation talking about how different Mrs. Kennedy was from previous first ladies.

"Mrs. Kennedy wasn't like the other First Ladies," Hill said, adding that the First Lady was an accomplished horsewoman who also served as a goodwill ambassador for her husband on overseas trips.

"Mrs. Kennedy was very adventurous," he said, recalling the time when she and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, hopped aboard a camel on a trip to Pakistan.

"First, they got on the camel. Secondly, they got to riding it. Then, she takes the reins and swats him on the rump and they move on.

"The Pakistan officials were scared to death."

After sharing more anecdotal information, Hill talked about that fateful Texas trip that ended with Kennedy's assassination. All went well, he said, until the motorcade through downtown Dallas.

"There was a very sharp angle between Houston and Elm Streets where you really had to slow down," he said. "I was in the first car behind the President and First Lady.

"I heard this explosive noise over my right shoulder," he said. "I saw the president had grabbed his throat, so I jumped off the running board to get on top of the rear of their car.

"As I ran, I heard a second shot. As I approached, there was a third shot."

Hill recalled that President Kennedy couldn't duck out of the line of fire because of the back brace he was wearing, putting him in position for the fatal third shot, which destroyed the right side of his head.

The presidential car quickly traveled to nearby Parkland Hospital, where the president was pronounced dead.

Hill recounted the aftermath of Kennedy's assassination and his service under President Lyndon Johnson. He continued to work for the Secret Service until his retirement.

McCubbin had one final question for the old agent.

"It's been almost 50 years. Many people say there was a conspiracy. What is the truth?"

Hill said there was no evidence of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.

"Only three shots were fired in Dealey Plaza," Hill said. "All three shots came from the same direction and were fired by the same rifle, by the same individual.

"All credible evidence shows that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone."



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