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Happy to report there's a new Key West Caper just being published. Had a blast with it; hope you will, too. Part of the story is from the POV of a four-pound Chihuahua! A fascinating technical challenge--and a helluva lot of fun. See my recent blog post for more on how it came about. Please let me know what you think.
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Mystery bride, Secret, Suspense ... That is what is found in Janet Syas Nitsick's clean, Christian, historical romance, The Heiress Comes to Town. Pre-order your e-book copy today. Book released Feb. 9, 2019. Paperback editions available now. "Slipping out of her father’s New York mansion on her wedding day, Nina Robert ..." Visit my blog for more info and book links: https://janetsyasnitsick.wordpress.co...
Wow--my new Key West novel, NACHO UNLEASHED, launched yesterday and is already in Amazon's top 800. Thanks to everyone who's helped bring it there. Early reviews have been very kind. Hoping some of you will weigh in. Thanks, and happy reading!https://www.amazon.com/Nacho-Unleashe...
Mystery. Thriller. Erotic Suspense.Well reviewed. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
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Ronald wrote: "Amazing GraceIt's the smallest Christmas turkey I've ever seen, like something out of a Dickens novel, except I think that was actually a goose. I don't mind, but I feel bad for my family, especi..."
Great story; even better outcome. This touched me in all the right places. (ALL THIS HAPPENED IN ONE DAY) My own car went into the repair shop, I fell at work, I went into hospital for Xray, my wife went into the hospital and I nearly lost her. This happened at Christmas and my daughter, of 21, cancelled wedding to be with mother. Bills piling up and I need to get well to work again. Not so Merry a Christmas, and an ever sadder looking New Year! I guess I'll take my own good advice in "Raising Hope", one of my books at Amazon!!! The answer - PRAYER!!! Cheers, Don ( TRUE STORY!!!)
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It's the smallest Christmas turkey I've ever seen, like something out of a Dickens novel, except I think that was actually a goose. I don't mind, but I feel bad for my..."
Hope things are looking up for you now Don.
Are you a railroad buff? My latest non-fiction book is Hear The Whistle Blowing, a short history of railroading in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region. Available in both print and electronic formats.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Thriller. Mystery. Erotic suspense. Both novels free on Kindle Unlimited!Silent Waltz
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Tears at Sunrise
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Mist stirs the chowder fogBoiling seas speak their truths
Old men weep with joy.
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#Thriller #Mystery #EroticSuspenseStone Ponies is now just 99 cents for a limited time only!
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Looks like the gene I predicted must be there in FRAGMENT may have been found? https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/late...
"...Each chapter has another twist and turn which makes it very hard to put down, a story I highly recommend."$0.99 sales price for a limited time!
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The new sequel of the French Orphan series is availble now and free on Kindle tomorrow;check out for 'The Duke and the Imposter' and enjoy
Check out my new book, Escape from Watson's Island. Inspired by a true story.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PD1V33D
Why would thieves steal the body of a dead woman? That's the question perplexing Sheriff Syl Tilghman as he struggles to avoid the charms of an old girlfriend and preserve his relationship with the woman he loves. If that isn't enough trouble for one man, a record blizzard has buried his town in snow and ice. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
99 cent sale ends this week!Calvin "Howdy" Doody is out of prison and coming for the man who put him there. John Howard is ready.
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#Thriller #EroticSuspense$0.99 sale price ends this weekend! Don't miss out on Stone Ponies.
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Why would thieves steal the body of a dead woman?That’s the most challenging question yet to be faced by Sylvester Tilghman, the third of his family to serve as sheriff of Arahpot, Jordan County, Pennsylvania, in the waning days of the 19th century.
And it’s not just any body but that of Mrs. Arbuckle, Nathan Zimmerman’s late mother-in-law. Zimmerman is burgess of Arahpot and Tilghman’s boss, which puts more than a little pressure on the sheriff to solve the crime in a hurry.
Syl’s investigation is complicated by the arrival in town of a former flame who threatens his relationship with his sweetheart Lydia Longlow; clashes with his old enemy, former burgess McLean Ruppenthal; a string of armed robberies, and a record snowstorm that shuts down train traffic, cuts off telegraph service and freezes cattle in the fields.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
A judge discovers he's not as smart as he thinks he is in a new short story published here https://www.ropeandwire.com/western-s...
Good GirlHere's my debut novel "Good Girl" https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1790165792
And guess what? It's also a full length feature film, and is free to view at : https://variumfilms.wixsite.com/variu...
or:
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Hello friends,Inspired by the writings of Mark Twain
New release! Chatman's Corner
TOM SAWYER MEET NAPPER HOLLOWAY
Chapter One - Nicknames
Welcome to Chatman’s Corner. My name is Napper Holloway. Of course, that’s not my real name. It’s Billy, but all my friends call me Napper on account of the way my mom use to always make me take noon naps. I don’t take them no more, now that I’ve turned twelve, but the name kind’a stuck to me.
Me and my friends meet here at the corner store every Friday night. It’s kind of early yet which is why there ain’t nobody else here, but they’ll be along soon enough. This place where we’re at now is old man Chatman’s store. He don’t much like us kids hangin’ around here but he don’t dare try and do nothin’ about it. Me and the gang’s feared from here all the way past Barry Creek. Now we never bothered to measure that out but most guess it comes to about two hours walkin’. Little Hinesie says four hours walkin’ but he’s a lousy guesser and he walks real slow. Once he guessed on twenty trues and falses on a history test and got them all wrong. We figured that’s got to be some sort of a world’s record.
Well getting back to what I was sayin’, old man Chatman’s store is as old as The Corner. It’s where this place gets its name. You see, old man Chatman’s father used to run it before him and his father before him. They had owned most all the land around here until the city up and bought it from them. That’s when they built Chatman’s Corner.
The way I figure it, this is kind of a place where they put all the poor people to live. We’re sort of tucked away out here all by ourselves. They built up about fifty or so houses all bunched up so’s not to waste space. Of course, they’re all mostly old now. A few of them even’s got the windows all boarded up. The one I live in ain’t too bad though on account of the way my mom takes good care of it and all.
Out in back a ways is a big swamp in which is Barry Creek. I figure I’m pretty lucky to have a swamp right out in my own backyard. We catch all kinds of frogs and stuff back there. My ma, she don’t care too much for it though. I think it’s mostly because of the way Petey keeps draggin’ up those big black rats into the kitchen. My mom says one of these days that cat’s gonna get done in down there. I kind’a doubt that though cause Petey’s a good twice their size and when he curls all up in back, he looks meaner than any mutt around here.
We also got our own school out here at The Corner. We figured they built it to keep us from havin’ to ride all the way into the city. It ain’t a real bad school ‘cept for the building is kind of old. There’s marks on the walls where kids scraped in that go way back. One of them reads, Teddy and Jane-1953. That’s the oldest one that’s ever been found. Of course, that doesn’t count the one that reads Brenda loves Bert-1886, but we wrote that one in last year.
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Kindle
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My essay about meeting Axel Stocks, blood painter and surrealist jeweler, is in the book Axel Metal Messiah: The Underground Jeweler. Axel was also Salvador Dali's handler in NYC. The book is filled with photos of him, his work and the people whose lives for which he kept an eye ring. Thank you to Jondix and Lindsey Guttilla for including my words and to Kurt Komoda for the photos that I did not have. For more info and to get a copy, the Axel Metal Messiah shop is waiting for you https://axelstocksbook.bigcartel.com/
With the election coming up and our political parties coming apart at the seam, my satirical novel, "Threeway," is timely again. Threeway: A Short Novel for a Long Season
"Threeway" predicted a lot of the madness of the last few years. Kirkus Reviews calls it, "A slim, funny satire of America's electoral culture. You'll laugh so hard you'll cry. And vice versa.
THE GOD GAME is coming out from St. Martin’s Press in January - techno thriller about high school kids caught in a video game run by an AI that thinks it’s God. There’s a giveaway for Advanced Reader Copies now if this is your cup of tea! https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
I'm pleased to announce that Piker Press has accepted my latest short story, The Letter, for publication in their December 23rd issue.https://www.amazon.com/author/ronaldp...
Why would thieves steal the body of a dead woman? The third entry in the Sheriff Sylvester Tilghman series and set at the turn of the 19th century in rural Pennsylvania. But the troublemakers come from all over.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
He picked up the rock with care and walked quickly out of the woods. It had been a long time since he had felt like this. He was scared.Silent Waltz
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"Howdy" Doody is no puppet from a 1950s kids show. Fresh out of prison, Doody is gunning for the man who put him there. John Howard knows he's coming. Someone's gonna die.Stone Ponies
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A record cold winter hits Shenandoah Mountain Lake and a serial killer is hard at work. As the body count grows and the murderer closes in on his family, Salem Matthews knows it's time to kill or be killed.Pieces of January
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A retired special forces combat veteran and a shadowy killer are linked in a silent dance to the death.Silent Waltz
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New 5 star review for Tears at Sunrise!"This is my first read from this author but I will be reading more from him since this novel was well written and full of action and suspense. I highly recommend this author."
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Calvin "Howdy" Doody is out of prison and gunning for the man he blames for everything that has gone wrong in his life. Fifteen long years have passed. And now he's back.Stone Ponies
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Two John Howard mystery/suspense novels:Tears at Sunrise, a State Library of Virginia fiction selection.
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Stone Ponies
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Winter is coming for us. It's already here for my characters in The Bartered Body, and that's only one of the problems Sheriff Tilghman is having in solving his latest mystery. In addition to the weather, he's dealing with the return of an old flame who threatens his relation with his current sweetheart. And then there's a string of armed robberies and clashes with a former town burgess. A fun romp in the waning days of the 19th century.The Bartered Body
Former NASA scientist reviews my book of Time Traveling Epic Fables and
Gives it 5 stars:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...
Any railroading buffs out there? My book Hear The Whistle Blowing focuses on railroading in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region. But there's also lots of information on the history of railroading in general, from steam to diesel. And a good assortment of photos. It's available in both print and Kindle versions. Hear the Whistle Blowing: Railroading in the Coal Region
"...well written and full of action and suspense..."A State Library of Virginia fiction selection.
Tears at Sunrise
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",,,each chapter has another twist and turn which makes it very hard to put down..."Stone Ponies
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"This book was Wow! I love it, it had love, romance, mystery, and murder...I felt like I was there..."Silent Waltz
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