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Joe Hamilton is a detective genre writer from Hamilton Ontario. Yeah, go figure. And it’s not even his pseudonym name. Like, why would someone do that? I’m sure he is tired of the “you’re kidding” comment.  I just finished, and thoroughly enjoyed, his latest novel, “Dust in the Wind”, the tenth book in the detective series featuring detective Gabriel Ross, the founder of the Eye on You Detective agency, located in Biloxi, Mississippi. His writing …

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The most rewarding side adventure yet!! The absolute best!! What could be better then writing a story for your grandchild – and making them the hero of the story – complete with pictures? I must admit it took a while for this side adventure to dawn on me, but when it did, talk about motivating! I have to warn you, it takes more than bit of planning. Not so much a problem if you keep …

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For me it was Bomba the Jungle Boy, The Chessmen of Mars and Lord of the Rings. There were many other books and authors who helped me continue the adventure, but those three started it. As I mentioned, in an earlier post, Bomba the Jungle Boy was read to me by my father – a chapter a night. It was the perfect fit for me in that moment. That’s critical in developing a love of …

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Which of the characters you have created in your books is your favorite? Well, like many when they write their first book, I guess I lived the role of Andar, the hero of The Reedsmith of Zendar, my lone, fantasy adventure. A widower with children, he is forced to take on an unknown enemy against great odds. Busy with my own young family at the time, it took four years to write. But I sure …

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Well….. maybe not professional. Photo shoot number two as I try to get a couple of figures for the cover of EB. Since Tatiana was going to photoshop the images into the jungle, I thought it didn’t matter if they were taken indoors or not. Wrong. Too close to the wall creating shadows. Poor staging of the models because of lack of planning. So weeks later, with two new models, moving outside with more props, …

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