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Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest names winners
I was honored to be a judge for Beach Holidays ‘Beach Holidays’ anthology to be published in late 2022 August 17, 2022 Cat & Mouse Press...

Jackson Coppley
Aug 18, 20222 min read


Denouement
Denouement the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or...

Jackson Coppley
Aug 13, 20221 min read


The Nineteen
Jake Needham takes you to Thailand on another Jack Shepherd adventure. This time around, we get to know a young DEA lawyer, Lucas Ryan,...

Jackson Coppley
Jul 23, 20221 min read


Cloud Cuckoo Land
One of my favorite books is All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. So, when Doerr came out with his next work, Cloud Cuckoo Land,...

Jackson Coppley
Jul 11, 20221 min read


The Immortality Key
When I first encountered The Immortality Key, I was skeptical. Proving that the earliest religions used psychedelics? Was this written by...

Jackson Coppley
May 4, 20221 min read


Happy Endings?
You may have seen my book review of Nightmare Alley. Since that review, I’ve seen the recent movie version starring Bradley Cooper. I...

Jackson Coppley
Apr 19, 20222 min read


Does Truth in Fiction Count?
Is it just me, or do the details matter when enjoying fiction? As a citizen of the Washington, DC, area, it annoyed me when the character...

Jackson Coppley
Apr 1, 20222 min read


Run Rose Run
James Paterson’s collaboration with celebrities is an interesting exercise in guessing where one collaborators' work ends and the other...

Jackson Coppley
Mar 27, 20222 min read


Sooley
I was born in North Carolina and went to N.C. State, therefore basketball is my heritage. North Carolina has four traditional powerhouses...

Jackson Coppley
Feb 27, 20221 min read


Nightmare Alley
A few months ago, while my wife and I prepared for a signing in our local bookstore of my latest novel, we saw on a nearby rack Nightmare...

Jackson Coppley
Feb 14, 20222 min read


The Lincoln Highway
A friend thought The Lincoln Highway at 592 pages was too long, but for me, I didn’t want it to stop. I knew Amor Towles could deliver...

Jackson Coppley
Feb 4, 20222 min read


YouTube Mania
I’ve used YouTube for many years. I like making videos and sharing with my friends. At the beginning of December 2021, one of my videos,...

Jackson Coppley
Jan 15, 20221 min read


The Confessions of Young Nero and The Splendor Before the Dark
I became interested in the Roman emperor Nero in researching my novel The Fire Starters and touring his buried Golden House in Rome. The...

Jackson Coppley
Jan 8, 20221 min read


The Extinction Trials
A.G. Riddle’s Extinction Trials begins with a man inviting leading industrial leaders to a private meeting in which he poses an...

Jackson Coppley
Dec 14, 20212 min read


The Family Man
You can judge a book by its cover. Not so with A Family Man. As I write this, author Anna Willett may have changed the cover from the one...

Jackson Coppley
Oct 31, 20211 min read


The Madness of Crowds
The Madness of Crowds, the latest novel from Louise Penny, was my first exposure to this author’s series of Inspector Gamache mysteries,...

Jackson Coppley
Oct 10, 20211 min read


New York, the Novel
New York puts history in context. It is a family saga with roots in the earliest settlement of Manhattan Island by the Dutch, when it was...

Jackson Coppley
Sep 4, 20211 min read


Noble Ultimatum - Jack Noble Book 13
Spoiler Alert: There is nothing to spoil. This installment of the Jack Noble series resolves nothing. Tune in to the next book in the...

Jackson Coppley
Jul 7, 20211 min read


The Boys in the Boat
A book about crew racing? You mean those ivy league guys rowing in a thin boat? Do I really want to read a book about that? Daniel James...

Jackson Coppley
Jun 3, 20212 min read


The Phoenix Project
Nick Thacker serves up a fine sample of the Harvey Bennett series in The Phoenix Project. If you open this novella on Kindle, it may tell...

Jackson Coppley
Apr 15, 20211 min read



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