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New novel coming out!

Hello folks...just want you to know I will have another Gunny Mac novel coming out this year...here is a bit of teaser....

Gunny Mac Private Detective Trouble in Tomahawk Gap.

Gunny Mac and the detectives you have grown to love are back once again to stop the killing of Henry Running Bear, a Navajo Code talker who served with the boys on Guadacanal.

Someone wants the cod...

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Be Careful About Publishers

1/30/2023

Update: Author Complaints at Adelaide Books

Author: Victoria Strauss
Categories: Small Press Complaints

 

In early 2021, as part of a post about several troubled small presses, I wrote about mounting problems at New York-based Adelaide Books, as evidenced by an increasing number of author complaints about delays, poor editing, terrible communication on the part of Adelaide's owner, Stevan Nikolic, and lagging royalty payments.

 

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Software to Help You Write Better.

1/15/2023

Look... I write like the old black and white movies about heroic newspapermen of the 1940s and 1950s. You know when the story was everything and so was the truth. Men who went after the scoop because it was their job to bring out real facts to the American public. 

I'm not saying I'm heroic, only that I'm usually behind the times because I don't like the times we are living in. 

And I am not a techno guy. I barely can type on my computer and if I run i...

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You can write a Novel

12/26/2022

Featured Author Steven G. Walker

Featured Interview With Author Steven G. Walker

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Raised in Cleveland, Ohio in a Slovenian and Italian neighborhood. Until I published my second novel…Gunny Mac Private Detective Trouble in Cleveland did I realize what an impact Cleveland made on me.

I served during two decades as an Infantry officer and I now live in central Ohio on a small farm with my wife and two border collies. Molly the border collie and Beauregard Pierre Townsend Walker a tricolor 75 pound...

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Selected to be an Ambassador for the Military Writers Society of America

11/30/2022

  I'm proud to be a new member of the Military Writers Society of America.

As an Ambassador I will travel to different locations and help veterans tell their stories. Hopefully I can guide them from writer to published author.

If you know a veteran that wants to share their stories and help save treasured memories and experiences please have them contact me or give me their contact information and I will contact them.

My email address is: gunnymac26@gmail.com

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Interview with Steven Osarczuk

11/12/2022

Seadog Publishing Presents...Steven Osarczuk

 

Today we have the honor of interviewing Steven Osarczuk our narractor that does all of Seadog Publishing narration of our novels. 

You may listen to the the interview or read it.

1.        Please tell us about yourself?

Well, I've been an audiobook narrator and voice over artist for a few years now. Prior to that I was self employed as a custom woodworker/ carpenter and ran my own woodshop for about 10 years. Before that, I was a law enforcement officer for 27 years. I started as a communications officer in Dispatch and worked my way through the ranks to Lieutenant, commander of operations. I oversaw day to day operations, training, the Detective Division and the Tactical Officers Division and Internal Affairs. I myself was a Critical Incident and Crisis Manager as well as a Hostage Negotiator on the tactical response team. I am also a fine arts painter with a focus on Photo Realism and Art History  - which was my major in college. I'm a father of three adult children and Papa to one very special grandson. M...

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Interview for Red Headed Book Lover

4/1/2022

Interview for Red Headed Book Lover                              

By Aimee Cook, originally published on redheadedbooklover.com

 

1. Thank you for joining us at Red Headed Book Lover! Please tell us more about yourself.

I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio in a Slovak family. My mother never finished the eighth grade to help support her family and my dad did not finish high school because he e...

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Hard-boiled Private Detective

1/22/2022

Move on over Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett there is a new hard-boiled detective novelist on the scene presenting his latest book, Gunny Mac Private Detective Trouble in Chinatown!

I started writing about private eyes, shamus, gumshoes, privat...

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My Interview in the Big Thrill Magazine

1/31/2021

Gunny Mac Private Detective Trouble in Chinatown by Steven Walker

by Tim O’Mara, originally published on thebigthrill.org

It’s the onset of World War II. President Roosevelt is collecting and burning the currency in Hawaii in case the Japanese invade. Corrupt military officers, gangsters, and police officials are poised to steal as much of that money as they can. A badly wounded Marine Gunnery Sergeant and three other wounded veterans team up to stop them.

Got it? Good. That’s the plot of Steven Walker’s crime thriller, Gunny Mac, Private Detective—Trouble in Chinatown (Seadog Publishing, October 2020.)...

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