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Clever Sleight of Hand
Author Uses One Illusion to Distract Me From Questioning the Larger Illusion My Review of W.P. Kinsella’s “Shoeless Joe”By Jeff Salter I should begin this review by stating that (as a kid, and even older) I enjoyed playing SOFTball — … Continue reading
Author Contract Cancelled Because
“the Public Wouldn’t Support Two Books on the Same Subject” Jeff Salter’s Spotlight of Sanora Babb’s Novel [Whose Names Are Unknown]That Threatened Steinbeck’s and Was Shelved for Some Six Decades It was the back story – rather than the “subject” … Continue reading
Posted in America, authors, book review, history, Jeff Salter
Tagged Dust Bowl, Sanora Babb, Whose Names Are Unknown
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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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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