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Digger Breaks Through! Now Available in Paperback!

I told you it would happen soon, and here it is! If you’ve been reading Run, Digger, Run! and getting the impression that there might be more to the story, well, you’re right. Digger Breaks Through! reprints the original Diggerverse … Continue reading

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Powerful Pages – The Curse of Capistrano, by Johnston McCulley

You probably know this story better under the title The Mark of Zorro. First serialized in five segments in 1919 in All-Story Weekly, The Curse of Capistrano was then adapted into the feature film The Mark of Zorro in 1920 … Continue reading

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Powerful Pages – Gladiator by Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie is perhaps best known for his novel When Worlds Collide, which was made into a big budget special-effects extravaganza by producer George Pal. But every year, it becomes more apparent that his most influential novel by far was … Continue reading

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Down With OPB – The False Princess

Continuing March’s look at Other People’s Books, I’d like to feature a change of pace for Hero Go Home. There’s really no connection at all, either thematically or even proximately, between Digger, or superheroes in general, and Eilis O’Neal’s debut … Continue reading

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Down With OPB – Nobody Gets the Girl

I promised last week that I would talk more about James Maxey’s work this week. I first discovered James when my friend M.T.  Reiten was published in a Phobos anthology, All the Rage This Year. When I visited the Phobos … Continue reading

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Down With OPB – Final Flight of the Blue Bee

Okay, so this is not actually a book. “The Final Flight of the Blue Bee” is a short story which originally appeared in Asimov’s a few years ago, and which I later bought for $0.99 as a Kindle single. It … Continue reading

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Down With OPB – The Hollow Earth

Ya down with OPB? Yeah, you know me. OPB means Other People’s Books, which means I’m talking about fiction other than my own. In theory, given what this site is about, that means I should be trying to track down … Continue reading

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Death Wave, Again

For everyone who has been interested in Death Wave, but did not buy because you don’t have a Kindle, you now have other options. Death Wave is now available on Smashwords. That means that for the same price, $2.99, you … Continue reading

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Death Wave Final Preview

So I decided to give you one more small preview of Death Wave, just because the early chapters I previewed still feel somewhat light, and I want you to understand that the book gets much darker later. So here’s a … Continue reading

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Noir Tuesday – Death Wave, Part 2

Here is the second and final part of the free preview of Death Wave. Follow the link to download the rest instantly to your Kindle or other mobile device for only $2.99! The story so far: During the Great Depression, … Continue reading

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