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A Beginner’s Guide: How to Operate an Antiques Business: 50 Years of Trade Secrets, Advice, Common Sense Solutions, with a Bit of Tongue-in-Cheek Dry ... Solutions for the Independent Operator)
108 pages, Paperback
Published March 7, 2026
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Mark Clay Grove
29 books6 followersI like to write G-rated literature, science fiction, short stories, how-to business guides, and I publish some of grad school papers. Presently, I am converting my hard copy master's thesis to digital format with the intent of it becoming an ebook, audiobook, paperback.
In my Picker Series (literature), the main characters, Charles and Emma Dawes, travel about Virginia, the United States, Europe, and the rest of the world searching for undervalued treasures ("sleepers"). Most of the anecdotes are based on my real experience. First in this series is, The Madison Picker. Its sequel is Some Kind of Good. The third title in the series, South Boston Beauty, is in development.
And then I’ve written a sci-fi series employing the same characters (still rated G). This series is sequel the Picker Series. The scifi series is called, the Conglomerate Series. The Serapis Fraktur, the first title. Its sequel is The Scalar Magnitude (in developement), and there are standalone short stories and novellas, too: The Pilot, Retread Operator, The Reaper, and Time Machine Administration. The Pilot is also in Spanish.
What I read: Anything that does NOT have explicit sex and streams of foul language. Why? Because it's repugnant.
In my Picker Series (literature), the main characters, Charles and Emma Dawes, travel about Virginia, the United States, Europe, and the rest of the world searching for undervalued treasures ("sleepers"). Most of the anecdotes are based on my real experience. First in this series is, The Madison Picker. Its sequel is Some Kind of Good. The third title in the series, South Boston Beauty, is in development.
And then I’ve written a sci-fi series employing the same characters (still rated G). This series is sequel the Picker Series. The scifi series is called, the Conglomerate Series. The Serapis Fraktur, the first title. Its sequel is The Scalar Magnitude (in developement), and there are standalone short stories and novellas, too: The Pilot, Retread Operator, The Reaper, and Time Machine Administration. The Pilot is also in Spanish.
What I read: Anything that does NOT have explicit sex and streams of foul language. Why? Because it's repugnant.
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