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Book 1 in the new Tara Rezeck Mystery Series is now available for pre-order on Amazon at a special low price. If you order the book before its launch day on March 22, you’ll be able to get it for just 99 cents. Pre-order here. What it’s about Wildfires swept across California wine country in […]

Independent novel review: The Jossing Affair

By J.L. Oakley This is an amazingly good book. The Jossing Affair reminds me of Dr. Zhivago: it’s a story that helps us understand a world-changing, vicious conflict through a close focus on a few people caught in it. At its heart, it’s actually a realistic love story. Janet Oakley is an author I admire. […]

Army of Worn Soles is on promotion today

Book 1 of the Eastern Front trilogy is on promotion through BookDoggy. If you haven’t read it yet, now is your chance to get it at a reduced price. Because after this promotion, the price will go back up to its regular setting. Get it at BookDoggy http://bookdoggy.com/?p=2671&preview=true What’s it about? A Canadian is drafted […]

Writing amid calamity

California is a land of extreme beauty and extreme horrors. From the contrived glamour of Hollywood and Los Angeles to the awe-inspiring majesty of the redwood forests. From the unique personality of San Francisco to the wind-blasted isolation of the northern coast. It’s also home to disastrous extremes. For the past three days, I’ve been […]

Army of Worn Soles: Battle of Poltava

On this day, September 18, 1941, the German forces invading the USSR captured the city of Poltava, Ukraine. My father-in-law, Maurice Bury, was in that battle. I wrote what he saw and experienced in Chapter 10 of Army of Worn Soles, the first book in the Eastern Front trilogy. Here’s a sample.    Chapter 10: Panzers […]

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Today in the history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front 1944: The Red Army breaks through near Narva, Estonia. — World War II Database  A description of the following events from Walking Out of War. From Walking Out of War: Book 3 in the Eastern Front trilogy When the train passed a station […]

A story that twists like the Rio Grande

Review of Place of Skulls by Caleb Pirtle III One of the most satisfying literary discoveries is a truly unique story. This is particularly rare in the mystery-thriller genre. Many thrillers seem to be emulating another derivative book, trying to ride a bandwagon to market success. Far too many read as if the author were trying to write […]