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David Gardner

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Fall River, Wisconsin, The United States

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Humor and Comedy, Thriller, Contemporary

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David Gardner grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm, served in Army Special Forces and earned a Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin. He has taught college, worked as a reporter and sold women’s shoes.

He coauthored three programming books for Prentice Hall, wrote dozens of travel articles as well as too many mind-numbing computer manuals.

He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Nancy, also a writer. He hikes, bikes, messes with astrophotography and plays the keyboard with no discernible talent whatsoever.

His current novel is a whimsical thriller: 'The Journalist: A Paranormal Thriller' (Encircle Publications).

'The Last Speaker of Skalwegian' will be published in September, 2021 (Encircle Publications). ...more

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Just wanted you can find a cookbook for cooking that can of Spam in the Spam cookbook.?I served in the Marines ( Force Recon ) and with the Army with the 82nd. I would have loved the Spam on my 4 Yr. tour in the field. Missing out on your book is missing out but I'm sure I will buy it and donate it to the VA hospital. I buy and donate tons of books to the VA. The vets can't afford it so they give me titles and I buy .

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I too was in the 82nd before I joined Special Forces, way back when. We sometimes ate C-rations in the field. Spam would have been a nice chang…moreHarold,
I too was in the 82nd before I joined Special Forces, way back when. We sometimes ate C-rations in the field. Spam would have been a nice change.
My wife says her father used to fry Spam.
Thanks your message and thanks for donating my book to a VA hospital. I hope it cheers the patients up. I'll have to look into doing that.
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Hi David, Congrat's ? on winning your can of Spam.... It's great with eggs, or cut it up with cheese (valvetta) and onions and stuff it in hamburgers and cook in the oven till the cheese melts. Test me it's really, really good! I love Spam! Lucky! Your very funny, Thank you for the laugh :) Sincerely- Ann Dryden

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I used to like Spam when I was a kid. The stuff is the object of ridicule (yeah, I'm guilty), but from what I've read, it was a lifesaver f…moreAnn,
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I used to like Spam when I was a kid. The stuff is the object of ridicule (yeah, I'm guilty), but from what I've read, it was a lifesaver for the British during WWII and probably a lot of Americans living on the edge at the time. I don't want to know what went into it, however.
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	The Journalist 4.46 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Surgeons Cut My Head Off—And Sewed It Back On!”

That’s a real headline from the Weekly World News. The tabloid’s front cover shows a surgeon fussing over an operating table with the severed head of an attractive brunette wearing an expression of perfect serenity.

Tabloid journalism has always fascinated me, so much so that I forced the protagonist of my novel, The Journalist, to work for a tabloid and concoct stories like the one above.

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