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I am a lifelong avid reader with a passionate love for a good story, be it fiction on nonfiction. As a kid, I loved genre movies-westerns, gangsters, horror-because the story was king with those kind of flicks, same with comic books, another life long passion. After years of reading, I decided to try my hand at writing the kind of fiction I enjoyed and learned there is no greater satisfaction than to labor on something you love and then discover others find pleasure in it as well.

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	All the Way with JFK: An Alternate History of 1964 3.90 avg rating — 83 ratings — 4 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
	Beating Plowshares into Swords: An Alternate History of the Vietnam War 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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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	BIG CRIMSON 3: BLOOD WILL TELL (BIG CRIMSON #3) 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2023 — 2 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
	You Never Know What's Going to Come Through the Door 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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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The Stand Complete and Uncut by Stephen King

I first read Stephen King’s THE STAND way back in the day after finding a paperback copy of the 1978 edition on the rack at a drug store. Being fairly new to King at the time, I was not quite prepared for the wild ride his apocalyptic story took me on, where a super flu wipes out most of the population of America in a matter of weeks, leaving a sundry group of survivors to reckon with the afte Read more of this blog post »

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Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches

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I first saw THE DIRTY DOZEN at a far too young and impressionable age, and immediately fell in love with the film. It’s second on my list of all-time favorite war movies, right behind BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, and it is well into the Top Ten on my se ...more
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