Old crimes come back to haunt a small California town in this intriguing urban cozy. ABSINTHE OF MALICE introduces Penny Mackenzie, Lifestyle reporter for The Pearl Outrider, and a cast of unforgettable characters who find their lives turned upside down when old secrets and new secrets all come to light after chance discovery of a skeleton in a cotton field leads to murder…and romance.

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An Excerpt from the book-THE noon bell was about to ring, the one glorious spring note of thatinexorable “Gym” bell that ruled the school with its iron tongue. For atnoon, on the first liberating stroke, the long winter term died and theEaster vacation became a fact.Inside Memorial Hall the impatient classes stirred nervously, countingoff the minutes, sitting gingerly on the seat-edges for fear ofwrinkling the carefully pressed suits or shifting solicitously thesharpened trousers in peril of a bagging at the knees. Heavens! howinterminable the hour was, sitting there in a planked shirt and afashion-high collar–and what a recitation! Would Easter ever begin,that long-coveted vacation when the growing boy, according to theory,goes home to rest from the fatiguing draining of his brain, but inreality returns exhausted by dinners, dances, and theaters, with perhapsa little touch of the measles to exchange with his neighbors. Even themasters droned through the perfunctory e (more…)

a new publication from editor and publisher Mike Luoma, based in the creative hub of Burlington, Vermont. Featuring fiction, non-fiction, comics, illustrations, poems and more, this first issue features Luoma’s work almost exclusively, as a writer, illustrator and comic book creator. This issue also includes Ethan Slayton and Mike Seller’s cover and Juan Carlos Quattordio’s illustrations for Panthea Obscura Issue One, as the comic book is reprinted here (in grayscale). Also featuring an excerpt from Luoma’s science fiction novel “Vatican Assassin”, the comic book short “Holy Shit: The Second Coming” and the first collected print edition of Luoma’s online column “Mike Luoma’s Making It Up!” from CosmicBookNews.com.

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The Mainichi Daily News is the online English edition of Japan’s highly respected and trusted Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, which has a history of 137 years and a daily circulation of 4 million copies for its morning edition, and 1.5 million for its evening edition. The Mainichi was the first of Japan’s major newspapers to produce an English edition, starting in 1922. The online English edition’s popular content includes Mainichi Shimbun editorials and opinion articles, news, features, haiku in English, and photo specials. The Mainichi has an extensive news-gathering network with more than 360 domestic outlets and 26 overseas bureaus, and has won numerous prestigious journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and a record 23 Japan Newspaper Publisher and Editors Association Awards — the Pulitzer Prize of Japan. The Kindle Edition of Mainichi contains most articles found in the web edition. For your convenience, issues are automatically delivered wirel (more…)

“Excerpt from the book…”The purpose of this book is to instruct the prospective newspaperreporter in the way to write those stories which his future paper willcall upon him to write, and to help the young cub reporter and thestruggling correspondent past the perils of the copyreader’s pencil bytelling them how to write clean copy that requires a minimum of editing.

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