Depending on where I am, a good part of my day is spent telling people where the bathrooms are. Again, depending on the location, I also tell them where they can find the post office (next door to where I am standing).…
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Which Way to the Bathroom–And Other Tales From A Book Tour
Tagged with: Annette's Book Nook, Captiva Island, Doc Ford, Florida, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Irving Stone, Irving Wallace, Leon Uris, MacIntosh Books, Mike Pence, Randy Wayne White, Sanibel Island, Stephen King, Tim Sample
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Tales From the Tour: Old Girl Friends, Movie Moguls, Sad Stories, and a Blind Raccoon
If I’ve learned anything the past couple of months it is this: Do not do a book signing with a blind raccoon. Trouper is the raccoon in question. Kyle Miller has written a children’s book devoted to Trouper’s adventures. She…
Tagged with: A Hard Day's Night, Amazon, Bill Clinton, Brockville, Chicago, Chuck Hagel, Columbia Pictures, CreateSpace, David V. Picker, Eastern Ontario, Emma McLaughlin, Florida, George Stevens, Hillary Clinton, James Bond, John Wayne, Kyle Miller, Last Tango in Paris, Max von Sydow, Midnight Cowboy, Musts Maybes and Nevers, Paramount Pictures, Ron Base, Sanibel Island, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Nanny Diaries, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Tom Jones, Trouper, United Artists
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Standing In Airports, Holding A Book, Listening To Stories
This week a reader of The Sanibel Sunset Detective novels e-mailed me several questions, ending with this one: “Why does a man with ten published books to his credit spend his time hawking a handful of them in an airport?”…
Tagged with: Another Sanibel Sunset Detective, Captiva Island, Chicago, Ford, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, France, Galapagos Islands, Germany, Hitler, James Patterson, Nazis, Ontario, Pete's Time Out, Sanibel Island, Shanghai, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Windsor, World War II
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Bad Night In Paris: An Excerpt From The New Tree Callister Novel
Intrepid private eye Tree Callister returns for Another Sanibel Sunset Detective. The novel will be published by West-End Books next month, but it’s available now as an e-book. Tree is in Paris with his wife Freddie celebrating her birthday. But Freddie has…
Tagged with: Another Sanibel Sunset Detective, Hemingway, Hotel Lutetia, kir royale, La Closerie des Lillas, Paris, Sanibel Island, St. Louis
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The Florida Book Tour
Next week I’m back in Florida promoting my new novel, The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns. This is the second in a series of action-packed mystery thrillers set against the backdrop of one of North America’s last, unspoiled paradises. It features…
The Synopsis For Ron Base’s New Novel, The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns
What is the meaning of the Winged Rose? Private eye Tree Callister had better find out and soon. Until he does, he is in big trouble. For starters, a towering, baseball bat-wielding woman appears to be intent on killing him.…
Tagged with: Captiva Island, Florida, mystery, Sanibel Island, Sanibel Sunset Detective, tattoo, Tree Callister, West-End Books
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The Private Detective Inside Me
In the late 1970s, working as a journalist for a New York syndicate I went down to Murrell’s Inlet, South Carolina, to interview the legendary mystery writer, Mickey Spillane. Beginning in 1947, Spillane wrote a series of hard-boiled novels starring…
Tagged with: Captiva, Florida, I, Mickey Spillane, Mike Shane, mystery, Sanibel Island, The Jury, The Sanibel Sunset Detective
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The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns (Sort Of)
These days I’m obsessed with finishing my new novel, “The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns.” My brother Ric got me into this a couple of years ago. He is the president of the Sanibel Island Chamber of Commerce. He introduced me…
