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    • The Balkans as Inspiration? – Part 2
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    • It’s That Time of Year Again
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    • Old Spies Don’t Die…Until They Do
    • The Year We Wish Wasn’t
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    • When is a Love Story Not a Love Story?
    • Why is the Cold War Still So Appealing?
    • A New Look at an Old Novel
    • Revisiting A FACE IN THE CROWD
    • A PERFECT HATRED – REVISITED
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    • Why Novellas?
    • Short Stories Again?
    • Talking a Buyer Out of a Sale
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    • What is a Backlist Anyway?
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    • Yep, Doing “That” Again
    • Turning Backstory into a Novel?
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    • Sensitivity to History in Fiction
    • Should There Be Romance in a Thriller?
    • Ignore History? Not if you Don’t Want to Repeat It.
    • I Stand With Ukraine
    • Getting It Right
    • Balancing History and Story
    • The Aging Writer
    • Distinguishing History from Fiction in Historical Fiction
    • Writing on “Heavy” Topics
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    • The Post-New Book Letdown
    • A Change in the Flight Plan
    • Needing the Comfort of Writers When the Whole Community is Threatened
    • Art Imitates Life
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    • Why Are We So Captivated by Espionage?
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    • A Change for the Better
    • A War of Deception – Winner of the 2017 New Apple Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing: Best Historical Fiction
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    • My Noble Enemy: A Spy Flash Novella
    • The Better Spy – A Novel in Stories
    • The Yellow Scarf: A Spy Flash Novella
    • Blood Vengeance – A Collection of Linked Short Stories
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    • A Face in the Crowd – A Novelette
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    • A Visit From Grandfather Frost – A 2017 Holiday Story
    • Book Magnet – The Broader Concerns of All Humanity
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    • SERIES: A PERFECT HATRED
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    • Book Magnet: A Case of Mistaken Identity
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