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A Kind Act on a Tough Day
A woman who is having a tough day does a small kindness for an unknown stranger that causes ripples felt around the world. Kindness on a tough day May your days be filled with blessings. With love, Russ Photo … Continue reading
A Romantic Experiment
My experiment with turning my books into audiobooks has been a great success. They’re already outselling all other formats except ebooks, even including the direct sales of my physical books at book events (which tend to do well themselves.) My … Continue reading
Posted in books, Experiments, Romance, Uncategorized, Westerns
Tagged books, Experiments, Romance, western
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Saddled Up and Ridin’ the Trail
With the recent release of Desperate Journeys, Desperate Journeys my book of five suspenseful, action-packed crime stories, I have now saddled up and am ridin’ the trail of writing western stories that will be included in several books of western tales by … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Beta Readers, books, Suspense, Uncategorized, Westerns
Tagged action, books, crime, suspense, western
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Book Project & Events Updates
I’ve just sent the third story in my book of action and suspense crime dramas to Beta Readers. The story is “The Misunderstanding.” It’s about a family who enrages a violent psychopath when they accidentally take his suitcase instead of … Continue reading
A Cool Accident
The colorful pattern you see above from two perspectives came out of my printer out of the blue (and red, yellow, green…). I don’t know why or how, but thought it was rally cool and decided to share it with … Continue reading
An Author and His Work
James “Jay” J. Cudney is a young author that a fellow blogger recently introduced me to. His first book Watching Glass Shatter was released last year and appears to be doing extraordinarily well. Jay also seems to be making all … Continue reading
Posted in book, Book Deals, books, Uncategorized
Tagged book, books, family relationships, fiction, sale
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Full Library from Tossed Books
Full library from tossed books What a great idea: Take all the books people throw away and create a library for everyone! Sources: CNN and Not All News is Bad With Love, Russ
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Tagged Ankara, books, library, Not All News is Bad, Turkey
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Starting them Early
(Thomas wearing wear my boots.) When I returned home Sunday evening from a weekend book event, My Beloved told me of a conversation she had with our five-year-old grandson Thomas during a visit that morning: Thomas: “Where are all the … Continue reading
Posted in books, Children, Children's Picture Books, Humor, Reading, Uncategorized
Tagged books, children, humor, reading
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