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I had to share the above photo, which was hidden deep in the Red Mountain archives. That’s your truly and my amigo Nick almost two decades ago, shortly after we left our...
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My team and I are a week into launching my new novel, The English Bookstore in Bologna, and she’s currently knocking on the door of the top 100 in the entire Amazon Kindle store. That’s out of about 12 to 15 million books.
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