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Congratulations to my dear friend and CahillDigital.com client Rob Wolf on winning a Nautilus Book Award for his book “Not a Real Enemy.” I am proud to have been a part of the project and thrilled that this book has earned the respect it deserves. It is an epic tale of how his father, Dr. Ervin Wolf escaped from the Nazis, then twice from the Soviets. A truly harrowing tale and absolutely one you should read. You’ll find links to…

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Blue Ice – the new Techno-thriller by Mark N. Cahill

Blue Ice – the new Techno-thriller by Mark N. Cahill

26 years in the making…I finally got the proof copy of my novel, Blue Ice. It’s true – I started writing it, and in fact, most of the first chapter remains from 1986, when I began writing it in Manomet.  From the jacket copy: I started writing Blue Ice in 1986, on a cold windy night in the house I lived in on the beach in Manomet, MA, using an IBM PCjr who’s only storage was a 5 1/2″ floppy…

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Back to the Future – The Bestseller Roach Motel

Back to the Future – The Bestseller Roach Motel

I was listening to the New York Times Book Review Podcast the other morning and co-host Jennifer Schuessler made an astounding comment.  She looked at the best seller list today, and then looked back 16 years ago to when James Patterson released his first Alex Cross novel, Along Came a Spider, and found the list contained virtually the same authors.  From her article: The list was equally brand-name-heavy back in 1993, when Patterson’s first Alex Cross novel, “Along Came a…

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Rabbit Runs No More – RIP John Updike

Rabbit Runs No More – RIP John Updike

I was first introduced to John Updike at the University of Vermont by one of my two favorite professors, Dr. Allen G. Shepherd.  From there I developed a long term affair with Updike’s works.  Alas, there will be no more… From the New York Times: John Updike, the kaleidoscopically gifted writer whose quartet of Rabbit Angstrom novels highlighted so vast and protean a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism as to earn him comparisons with Henry James and Edmund…

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