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Author Archives: Jeff Salter
Blogs Blogs Everywhere
The Blog Universe Exploded and We’re All Drowning in the Fallout By Jeff Salter Topic: What characteristics make for an interesting blog? Do you regularly read many/any blogs (besides this one)? Why or why not? This topic was one of … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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This Matter Was Not at All Foul
I Loved This Book and Just HAD to Discuss It By Jeff Salter Let me start by explaining: “foul matter” is evidently a publishing term meaning a manuscript which has not yet begun the in-housing editing process. It’s NOT a … Continue reading
Posted in book review, editors, Jeff Salter, Miscellaneous, novels
Tagged Foul Matter, Jackie Zack, Martha Grimes
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Pondering
How I Deal With Issues In A Manuscript By Jeff Salter Topic: What kinds of activities do you engage in while mulling over your story lines? Have they ever helped you get over a stumbling block? I guess I should … Continue reading
Posted in advice, author's life, creativity, decisions, helping others, inspiration, Jeff Salter, Random thoughts, writing
Tagged pondering
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My Life According to the Beatles
Well, Actually According to the Titles of Certain Beatles Songs By Jeff Salter No assigned topic today, since it’s our monthly “free week” — to post anything that fits our fancy. So I scanned my folder of “possible future blogs” … Continue reading
Not A Lot to Share
At First I Didn’t Think I Was Cut Out for Social Media By Jeff Salter Topic: How has your use of social media changed over the years? Flashback to when I still worked full-time in a large city-county public library … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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An Editorial Critique
By Jeff Salter Crossed by DeathStitches in Crime – Book 1By ACF Bookens Book Blurb:“Salvaging from historic buildings isn’t supposed to require reporting a murder. When salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton crawls into an abandoned store with a house … Continue reading
Read Again and Again
Favorite Book(s) that Don’t Get Old (to me) By Jeff Salter Topic: What is the one book that you feel you could read over and over without it ever feeling old? When I noted our topic this week, I had … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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A Whole Different World
Play-time Underneath Our House By Jeff Salter Did any of you – as kids – play UNDER your house?I did. We did.Our house was hand-built by the Julius Matisse clan, probably in the 1940s, in Covington LA. [We bought it … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
10 Comments
Many Characters Are Totally From Inside My Noggin
But Some Are Considerably Inspired by Real People I Know By Jeff Salter Topic: Have you ever based a character on a real person? Have you ever used a TV or movie character as inspiration for a character in your … Continue reading
Posted in Books, characters, Characters based on real people, Jeff Salter
Tagged Greatest Generation
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Sacrifices, Deprivations, and Horrors
My Spotlight on Another WW2 Classic By Jeff Salter With The Old Breed [at Peleliu and Okinawa]By E.B. Sledge Some of you may recognize this author (& WW2 USMC veteran) as the Marine nicknamed Sledgehammer… as depicted in the HBO … Continue reading
Posted in autobiographies, battles, book review, Jeff Salter
Tagged Okinawa, Pacific battles, Peleliu, war memoirs, With The Old Breed, WW2
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