Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Dec 11, 2009, 6:30 am
Neilsen Business Media announced yesterday that it is shutting down Kirkus Reviews.  This may not be a big deal to most readers, but, on author listservs, it's just about the only thing peopl...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Dec 10, 2009, 3:36 pm
It's time to delve back into Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatsky and Ammon Shea.  Today's challenge is to match the following seven words to their proper definitions. Word...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Dec 10, 2009, 6:21 am
It's time to delve back into Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatsky and Ammon Shea.  Today's challenge is to match the following seven words to their proper definitions. Word...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Dec 9, 2009, 8:16 am
You already know that I've been spending most of my time recently visiting libraries, chatting with readers and generally having great, good fun.  Last night was no exception.  My thanks...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Dec 6, 2009, 4:26 pm
Murder on the Beach is one of my favorite book stores, a small, independent, mystery book store just a couple of blocks from the ocean in Delray Beach, Florida.   I was fortunate to do a sig...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Dec 3, 2009, 6:53 pm
It's hard to believe I was in Manhattan last night, rainy, cold Manhattan, at the National Arts Club, New York's crime-writing community getting together to share a little holiday cheer. ...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Dec 2, 2009, 9:43 am
Yesterday scrogers wrote a thought-provoking post about author Cormac McCarthy giving up his typewriter after more than 50 years and 5 million words.  Scrogers asked:   Am I just being nost...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 30, 2009, 10:49 pm
Saintvi has posted a challenge to write a zombie Christmas carol.  I figure I'm in enough trouble with Santa this year (making him a suspect in a double murder) so I decided to contribute a z...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 30, 2009, 5:08 am
What does this middle-aged man have in common with these three lovely ladies? I don't know, but I sure hope they like to read. This week's stops on the book tour Friday, December 4...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 29, 2009, 3:25 pm
I've had a couple of requests recently for the list of libraries that own a copy of It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder.  As some of you know, my publisher's business plan relies...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 28, 2009, 6:44 am
Good books, good music, great cocoa... And a big-time, small-town parade. Today, at 3:00, the Book Tour moves on to the West Windsor Library.
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 24, 2009, 7:01 am
Black Friday, in my world, means poker.  An annual event for the men in the neighborhood, a poker marathon, whiskey and cigars, chips flowing back and forth across the table, and by the end of th...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 23, 2009, 6:39 pm
Which word does not belong? (EDIT: I know my readers aren't scared off by "depraved and insulting" words, so, I'll add a few hints to get your etymological juices flowing). (EDIT: I gue...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 23, 2009, 9:44 am
Which word does not belong? (EDIT: I know my readers aren't scared off by "depraved and insulting" words, so, I'll add a few hints to get your etymological juices flowing). (EDIT: I gue...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 23, 2009, 4:20 am
Which word does not belong? A.  Dunderwhelp B.  Gandermooner C.  Knipperdollin D.  Naffin A.  Leint B.  Lant C.  Liffy D.  Lotium A.  Cacocallia B. ...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 22, 2009, 9:36 am
Yesterday began with a visit to The Town Book Store, an independent bookstore celebrating 75 years of bookselling in Westfield NJ.  At a time when so many independent book stores are struggling t...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 3, 2009, 10:49 pm
Readers are always curious to find out where their favorite characters come from.  Every successful author has his/her own process for discovering the characters who are ...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 3, 2009, 8:04 am
... when my guest will be author Terry Odell.  Terry writes "romance with a twist -- of mystery."
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 2, 2009, 10:34 am
It's not too late to make your travel plans to join me this Saturday at the New Orleans Book Fair.  According to the bookfair website - "The New Orleans Bookfair takes place on Frenchmen Str...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Nov 1, 2009, 6:47 am
I received a special Halloween treat from a certain reader who posted the following reader review at barnesandnoble.com:  "You will find yourself racing along with the author through The Jersey...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Oct 30, 2009, 10:11 am
I started working on this months ago, when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts were first announced.  Hell, I even accepted a credit card I didn't want or need, because American Express c...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Oct 28, 2009, 5:16 am
Television this week is wall-to-wall terror (well that, and, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown).  Ghouls.  Creeps.  Monsters.  Villains.  Bad guys who have what it tak...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Oct 27, 2009, 4:31 am
I'm guest blogging today over at Terry's Place.  Terry Odell writes romantic suspense.  Today I'm taking Terry's readers to the Pine Barrens, and introducing them to one of t...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Oct 26, 2009, 11:57 am
The brain plays tricks.  The details fade.  Still, the concert experience remains.  I had been on the road nearly two months, no schedule, no obligations, no itinerary,&n...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Oct 22, 2009, 6:06 am
There is no single path to publication.  No best path.  No right path.  As the technology advances and the publishing industry evolves, there is an ever-widening array of paths.  A...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Oct 21, 2009, 5:39 am
Today's stop on the blog book tour is being hosted by heidenkind, here on xanga. and also on her book blog.  I hope you'll stop by and say hello, as I blog about my perspective as a man, ...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Sep 9, 2009, 12:24 pm
Featured Grownups wants to know if your town is a good place to visit.  I have certainly posted, from time-to-time about some of New Jersey's treaures and about it's oddities.  ...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Sep 7, 2009, 5:35 pm
I was reading MelFamy earlier today (and if you're not reading MelFamy, you should be).  Anyway, in the comments to his post, the subject of poop jokes came up.  MelFamy suggested that i...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Sep 6, 2009, 11:01 am
I love that my book is being released in hardcover.  There's something permanent about hardcover.  Substantial.  But let's be honest here.  There's also something expen...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Sep 5, 2009, 10:44 am
So I read an article in today's New York Times.  Apparently people are upset.  Not about the economy.  Or health care.  It's not politics or religion that has everyone rile...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Sep 3, 2009, 5:48 pm
...it's the library. When I was a kid, we didn't go to a book store when we wanted a book.  We went to the library.  The school library.  And the town library.  And before...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Sep 2, 2009, 6:26 am
The trolley ride was silly, a ghost tour of Cape May, but it was the only way to gain access, at night, to the working lighthouse on Cape May Point.  One hundred fifty-seven feet high, with a bea...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Sep 1, 2009, 6:28 am
The Mad Ones recounts the story of the Gallo brothers, not Ernest and Julio, but Larry and Kid Blast and especially Crazy Joe Gallo, made men who were at the center of New York City's bloodiest ga...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Aug 28, 2009, 11:52 am
My videographers have been hard at work.  I hope you enjoy.
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Aug 28, 2009, 9:49 am
Early morning, the sun coming up over the water, we were walking in the wet sand at the waterline, heading for the inlet, dolphins just offshore, keeping pace, dorsal fins gracefully arcing up out of ...
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Jeff M. posted an article on doahsdeer's Xanga Site - Aug 27, 2009, 6:36 pm
Well, I had a great day yesterday in Washington D.C.   I didn't find any dead bodies, but I did find a good deal on a vacuum cleaner.  (Who knew that what frat boys need to get the ...
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