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Marketing Ideas for Emerging Authors. Do You Have a Plan?

It is an amazing accomplishment to write a book. It is even a greater achievement to navigate the stormy seas of publishing and reach the shore with your finished product. If you chose to publish as an...

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A Fog in Ravens Cove

Some days I am painfully aware of being a little kid in an adult body. Take today, for example. I was going about my grown-up life. I had my list and was heading to town to grab my weekly mocha …...

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The White Lady: A Worldwide Legend

  The Alaska Iconoclast series is predicated on the question, “What if a legend is really true?” So, my natural curiosity leads me to look at legends — especially paranormal legends. There are hundreds...

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Mysteries of Britain: The Wookey Hole and the Witch of Wookey

There are so many interesting and compelling legends in our world. This one comes from Britain. The name “Wookey” Hole sounds like it could be a location in a Star Wars movie. In reality, it is a cave...

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The Legend of The Wild Hunt

I must admit, with some embarrassment, that I am an avid PC Gamer. Hidden Object Games are my favorite. One game I played was named The Wild Hunt.  It had the paranormal aspect I am drawn to. After...

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Barataria: Lasting Wisdom for Leaders via Don Quixote

The Man from La Mancha is an endearing classic. One that brings to mind valor, honesty and bravery with a little craziness thrown in for good measure. As a fiction writer, I enjoy exploring new places...

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Happy Thanksgiving from Ravens Cove Alaska

Today is a cold one for this time of year. Usually we are around thirty-four degrees but today our forecast is for the mid-twenties and a north wind, which means I’ll be pulling out the Army-green...

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Trees: A Favorite Dwelling for Ghosts?

Ravens Cove, An Alaska Iconoclast Mystery, is the first book in this series. Many people do not know that the inspiration for my books is an object. For Ravens Cove the catalyst was a tree. A tree that...

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Dinner at the Haunted Catfish Plantation

My family went to the Catfish Plantation in Waxahachie, Texas to celebrate our son's birthday. It is a restaurant housed in an 1895 Victorian-era home. It is purportedly haunted and has been featured...

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Is The Grove the Most Haunted Site in Texas?

The Grove (also known as the Stilley-Young House), is an 1861 historic home in Jefferson, Texas. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. In...

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Merry Christmas from Ravens Cove

For as long as I remember, it has been a Christmas Eve tradition in the Bricken household to go door-to-door and sing. So, Grandma and I squeezed into to Bart’s old truck and off we went with Wendy,...

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Caddo Lake: The Perfect Setting for a Creepy Supernatural Thriller

Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in Texas. It is located in East Texas, about two and a half hours from Dallas near the small historic town of Jefferson, population 2,024 give or take a few. I would...

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Another Five-Star Review of Ravens Cove, An Alaska Iconoclast Mystery

”If you want spooky, eerie prose, this is the book to read. I like to read a trilogy or a series one book after the other so I waited until Mary Ann Poll wrote the third book in the trilogy … Continue...

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What Defines Christian Fiction?

I am a Christian. I enjoy nothing more than a scary Christian supernatural thriller. However, they are few and far between. I’ve read books by Frank Peretti. I’ve read the Left Behind series. These...

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Ingress: Highly Recommended Christian Fiction By Peter Younghusband (The Guru).

For anyone seeking enjoyable and vetted Christian fiction, please see other reviews by Peter Younghusband: http://christianfictionreviewguru.blogspot.com.au/  Or visit the online bookstore at Radiqx...

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Gorgon: An Alaska Iconoclast Thriller, Book 3 Five out of Five Star Review by...

For anyone seeking enjoyable and vetted Christian fiction, please see other reviews by Peter Younghusband:http://christianfictionreviewguru.blogspot.com.au/  Or visit the online bookstore at Radiqx...

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Is Fort Washita in Durant, Oklahoma Haunted? Rumors Say Yes.

Thanks to Steven Levi, Master of the Impossible Crime, for contributing the following story: Constructed in the 1841 to keep the peace between new settlers and Indians who’d been living in the area for...

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Inspire Publishing LLC: Book Editing Which Stands Above the Rest

  I have been blessed to have editors of the Iconoclast series that are talented, knowledgeable and honest. Most recently, I have been blessed by a talented editor who is a content editor, copy editor,...

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Just in time for Halloween: Has Big Foot Been Spotted in Texas?

A retired veteran in south central Texas says he saw an unidentified bipedal creature. The man, whose name wasn’t released by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, (BFRO) said he was driving...

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How Do You Know You’re a Writer?

I’ve lost count of how many people ask me when I started writing or how I knew I was supposed to write. Those two questions always make me uncomfortable. You see, I didn’t start my early life aspiring...

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