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The Righteous by Michael Wallace

The Righteous is a murder/mystery thriller set in a splinter, polygamist  Mormon community in Utah. When a young woman, the third wife of an elder, is murdered, rather than report it to the police, the community ask a young Canadian from the same sect to investigate. Jacob is a medical student Read more…

By Robert P. French, 11 yearsAugust 9, 2011 ago
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The Demise of the Soccer Moms by Cathryn Grant.

I ran into Cathryn Grant’s website when I was researching the whole issue of indie authors. I liked a lot of what she had to say on her site—for a start, the name Suburban Noir is great—and downloaded The Demise of the Soccer Moms. The arrival of Charlotte into the Read more…

By Robert P. French, 11 yearsJuly 15, 2011 ago
On writing and publishing

Publishing’s dead… long live publishing

Well of course, book publishing is not dead but, without doubt, it is terminally ill with no cure in sight. Taking off my author’s hat, I have been looking at publishing with my business eyes. The publishing industry exists solely to connect the work of an author with the eyes Read more…

By Robert P. French, 11 yearsJune 18, 2011 ago
The war on drugs

The harm done by illegal drugs

On the heels of my previous post, CNN published a report Organized crime won the war on drugs and this was in the LA Times: U.S. can’t justify its drug war spending. It’s nice to know that the media are following me. 🙂 Just how harmful are illegal drugs? To answer Read more…

By Robert P. French, 11 yearsJune 9, 2011 ago
Book reviews

Vegas Moon by John Locke

I lost my “indie virginity” to John Locke. Vegas Moon was the first book by an indie author that I ever read. I downloaded it from Amazon for the bargain price of 99 cents and I can tell you it is worth more. Vegas Moon is a Donovan Creed novel. Read more…

By Robert P. French, 11 yearsMay 22, 2011 ago
On writing and publishing

I couldn’t stand the waiting.

I’m not a patient person and I can’t stand hanging about waiting for something to happen. But it is what I have been doing for the last six  months… waiting for a literary agent to reply to my query letter and request to see my manuscript. Well, no more. In Read more…

By Robert P. French, 11 yearsMay 14, 2011 ago
The war on drugs

The war is over… drugs won.

In 1971 Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, famously declared the “War on Drugs”. Well, here we are, forty years later, so I thought I’d better give you all a bit of an update on how that’s been working out. The good news… the War on Drugs Read more…

By Robert P. French, 11 yearsMay 14, 2011 ago

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