Archive | July, 2012

A tweak here and a tweak there….

That’s about all the information you’re going to get regarding my novella which I completed last week and now having my editor take a scalpel to the manuscript. In the meantime, I am making a few minor adjustments here and there and a few edits. I will tell you this, I feel so good about [...]

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Field of Dreams

I love this movie. Every summer around this time I watch this movie. I like the story, the acting, the directing not to mention all the corn which makes me think about home. Maybe that’s one of the reasons why I have come to enjoy this movie so much in all the years that I [...]

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Battle of Taejon — July 14, 1950

On this day in 1950, the Battle of Taejon (Daejeon) began. After U.S. forces, (Task Force Smith) were overrun north of Osan on July 5 and Chonan fell three days later on July 8th, the North Korean juggernaut rolled into Tajeon. One week later, Taejon would fall, but not before the U.S. 24th Infantry Division [...]

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Some people say the nicest things

Bumped into a colleague today who had just finished reading War Remains. He bought two copies of it from me last week, one for himself and one for his father in Australia. Anyway, he told me how much he liked it and asked me if it was based on a true story. I told him [...]

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Amazon Reviews

I have a new marketing strategy. Actually, it’s not a new one and I didn’t even come up with the idea. What I do is look for indie writers who self publish like myself, download their books, read them and then write a review. Some of the writers are my Facebook friends and I believe [...]

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War Remains — 2012 Global E-Book Awards Finalist

Just a little over a week after I was featured in a Korean War documentary on MBC television in Korea talking about my novel War Remains and the Battle of Hoengseong, I received an email the other day that War Remains was selected as a finalist in the 2012 Global E-Book Awards. The awards ceremony [...]

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