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James Foley Smathers is a former United States Marine Corps Officer and Vietnam combat veteran. He is a graduate of the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications. He and his wife reside in Central Florida where he breeds, trains and raises Golden Retrievers

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MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW DECEMBER 2016 ISSUE

TRANSFORMATIONS
James Foley Smathers
Privately Published
9780692649022, $15.95, http://a.co/9qvP1ID

It only takes a mysterious phone call to shake a marriage; one made by a desperate stranger who advises Jackson Andrews that his wife is playing games. The anonymous call could have been dismissed as a prank were it not for the hesitant and convincing tone of the caller, who casts a seed of doubt that soon blows up into a f ...more

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James Foley Smathers I would travel back in time to VietNam in 1966 and try to make some decision "do-overs" that might have save lives and prevented injuries.…moreI would travel back in time to VietNam in 1966 and try to make some decision "do-overs" that might have save lives and prevented injuries.(less)

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James Foley Smathers Easy, the best thing is the freedom. Write for the fun of it. When writing becomes work for me I will stop doing it.

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A helpful attitude for writing fiction

Robert Peck, “A Day No Pigs Will Die” loved to say that everybody should be able to write just one interesting novel using their own personal experiences. After that, according to Rob Peck, you are then totally on your own and left to your imagination. Mr. Peck’s goal, in that course I took from him at Rollins College years ago, was to teach his students how to write that one readable novel so