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The personal blog of Michael Wallace, author of the Quill Gordon Mystery series, available on Amazon Kindle. More info: http://www.quillgordonmystery.com

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Just Answer the Question

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Every so often you set out to get an answer to one question and end up learning something else altogether....

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

What's In a Book Title?

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In the past couple of months I’ve been thinking a lot about book titles. It’s the sort of thing authors do...

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

The Marines and My Book Cover

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One of the less lovely aspects of self-publishing is that the author has to do it all. There’s no publishi...

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The Idea and the Execution

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In 1942, Alfred Hitchcock made a movie called Saboteur . It starred Robert Cummings as an ordinary guy fra...

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Tromping on Your Backstory

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One of the problems with writing a series of books with the same running character or characters is keepin...

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

In Praise of Daylight Savings Time

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As a kid growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, I always loved summertime. In addition to no school, th...

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Tying Up the Loose Ends

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I once read a mystery novel by a conventionally published author of multiple titles in which four bodies w...

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Mike Wallace: Native Californian, lifelong writer, former daily newspaper editor, public relations consultant to businesses, nonprofits and political campaigns, author of two mystery novels. It's been quite a ride.

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