Posts Tagged ‘history’

I’ve pulled up to The Writer’s Life eMagazine today for an author interview. See you there!

Today, come join me at the Avid Reader for a chapter reveal. Just the right thing to have with your morning coffee or over lunch!  See you there.  

Today, I’m stopping in at the TBR Pile with a look behind the curtain of DIE BACK. Come by to learn more about the backstory behind why the League has hidden a secret book of alchemy in the Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt in 272 AD. And there’s a link to the trailer too!http://fromthetbrpile.blogspot.com.

The virtual book tour for DIE BACK begins today. We get off to a roaring start with a kick off at Pump Up Your Book Virtual Book Club, a feature interview at PUYB, and a first chapter reveal at Sheila’s Reviews. Check them out! And there’s much more to come. Interviews with me and with […]

TECH: Benson Raft

Posted: 1st February 2016 by jazzdog in History, Technology
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I lived in Texas most of my life in land locked Austin –although there are some nice lakes. Coming to Seattle and the Pacific coast has exposed me to all sorts of new bits of history and tech unique to area or to life on or by the ocean. Just last week while visiting San […]

Remembering Pearl Harbor

Posted: 7th December 2015 by jazzdog in History, Uncategorized
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On December 7th my thoughts always turn to my father and the pivotal events in Hawaii in 1941. He was a young man in the Army based at Hickam Field as an airplane mechanic. With the attack on Hawaii, he quickly trained to become a bombardier and soon found himself in the jungles of Guadalcanal. When […]

A Starting Point

Posted: 28th July 2012 by Richard Hacker in Aviation, History, Writing
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A few days ago I did one of my favorite things about being a writer — research. In the middle of the week and the middle of the day, I hopped on my scooter, riding through downtown Seattle to the Museum of Flight. My goal: tour the interior of a B-17. This aircraft had a […]

The Story Several West Point graduates, including Grant and Sherman, navigate a life of duty and honor from the US expansion into California to the Mexican War and finally on the battlefields of the Civil War, where colleagues and sometimes, friends and family, find themselves on opposing sides. What I like about this book I […]