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Don Gillette is a member of the Academy of American Poets and is an active voting member of the Horror Writers Association. He holds both BS and MA degrees in English.
Born and raised on the Atlantic Coast, he has been writing fiction, non-fiction, plays, and poetry since he begged for (and got) one of the original "Tom Thumb" typewriters for his 6th birthday.
Don has published three novels (Pandemonium, Rubber Dead Man, Sarcophagus), a collection of his political humor articles from time spent as a newspaper editor (The Meeker Collection), two poetry collection (The Face In The Mirror Is Not Mine) and Collected Poems - 1970-2020, a short fiction collection (Old Leather), and a mixed media fantasy collaboration (Fallen Angels) along with sev ...more

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	Old Leather really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Fallen Angels by Don Gillette (Goodreads Author), Don Gilbert (With) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 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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	Collected Poems 1970-2020 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	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
	The Meeker Collection: Humor From The Pages of The Wilson County Advocate 1991-1993 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	The Face In The Mirror Is Not Mine 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1990 — 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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Yes, I know... what I've done right here, living in the Heart of Dixie, is damn near blasphemy.
So let me give you some history. Back in the day, I was the Personnel/Finance officer of the 3rd Battalion, 109th Armor. Our officer association was started before World War II and it was called "The Forrest Critters Officer Association," named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest who, for some r Read more of this blog post »

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Don Gillette made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Adding as an editor and contributor topic " I'm the editor of this book and also wrote the first chapter. Can it be added to my author profile? ...more "
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Don Gillette rated a book it was amazing When the World Stopped by Wayne Fenlon (Goodreads Author)	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
I have a story in this anthology. but I'm not rating my own work--I'm rating the anthology as a whole--and the other 30 authors. Anyway, this anthology is honestly top-drawer. I've been in quite a few and this one is very possibly the best collection ...more
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This is nothing I haven't read before in a dozen books on artisan bread and pizza from Jim Lahey, Peter Reinhart, or a host of other bakers and to be perfectly honest, I didn't like this guy's delivery, the way he spent half the book patting himself ...more
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I've read quite a few of Kealan Patrick Burke's works but I avoided this one for a while because I wanted to stay "current" with his works. Big mistake--I should have read this the minute I heard about it. Letter perfect. The tension. the sublime impli ...more
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A gripping supernatural read with several memorable characters, an unseen twist, and a conclusion that'll have you turning pages faster than you thought possible, Jonathan Janz has done it yet again. The story is absolute perfection, the atmosphere i ...more
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Don Gillette rated a book it was amazing Petrified Dreams (Hap and Leonard, #15) by Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author)	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
Another amazing Hap and Leonard exploit and sadly, the final one unless Joe has a change of heart. This one is being called #15 in the series, but if you include the short stories, novellas, and novelettes, I show it as #30 - and I've read each one, ...more
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Don Gillette rated a book it was amazing Where the Mood Leads by Wayne Fenlon (Goodreads Author)	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
Not a clinker in the bunch and that is most unusual when it comes to an anthology. A terrific band of authors spear-headed by the multi-talented Wayne Fenlon has managed to lay down one of the finest collections of short fiction I've read in years. Fro ...more
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Don Gillette rated a book liked it Oracle (Robert Grim #2) by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Goodreads Author)	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
Honestly, it seemed to go on forever. I tried i>Hex a few years ago and DNF because I couldn't get into it, so I had no idea that the character Robert Grim had appeared previously, but he wasn't really what I'd call a major character in this book, so ...more
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Resistance: An Anthology is an ambitious undertaking that succeeds, overall, in its objective to illustrate resistance as a force for growth in our species. The vast majority of the fiction is very good and the few selections that weren’t were still h ...more
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