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My “homage” to Adventurers Against Their Will soon to be expressed as “pocta”
As I held my pen to sign this Triton publishing agreement, words from my 1992 Walt Disney World Dreamers and Doers Award came to mind: Somehow I can’t believe there are any heights that can’t be scaled by someone who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special criteria, it seems to me,…
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A Piece of Great Advice To Start the New Year
A Piece of Great Advice to Start the New Year Six years ago when I sold my engineering firm to begin my life as a full-time writer, I got some great advice from my friend Dr. Sandy Shugart. Known in Central Florida for his leadership of extraordinary accomplishments among the nation’s 1200 colleges, as President…
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“The life, my dear friend, is the art of meeting people.”
“The life, my dear friend, is the art of meeting people.” A wonderful event just occurred. Czech words from seventy years ago were read aloud in my writing room. It happened because I read a fortuitous article in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper reporting that the Rotary Club in our College Park neighborhood was…
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A Birthday Wish from the Past for Valdik Holzer
July 23, 2013 A BIRTHDAY WISH FROM THE PAST FOR VALDIK HOLZER Today would have been my dad’s 102nd birthday had he lived beyond January 3, 2000. In honor of his birthday and the historic letter collection he hid away after WWII, I’ve cut and pasted below a translated version of his parents’ 1941 letter…
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Adventurers Against Their Will Book Launch finally happened! I then left the country… Now that I’ve returned, I wonder: What do Amazon book rankings really mean?
Adventurers Against Their Will Book Launch finally happened! I then left the country… Now that I’ve returned, I wonder: What do Amazon book rankings really mean? Most experts would advise any author: “When you launch your book, be accessible!” After all, if you place your ‘baby’ on various on-line retail outlets like Amazon, Barnes &…
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March 1, 2013 Today’s world of popping out a book
It’s amazing to think that my writing journey has been going on nearly nine hours every single day for five years. I started with the epic World War II story of my Czech father (My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime),naively thinking I’d finish that book in about two years. Then, as I wrote…
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March 1, 2013 Today’s world of popping out a book
It’s amazing to think that my writing journey has been going on nearly nine hours every single day for five years. I started with the epic World War II story of my Czech father (My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime),naively thinking I’d finish that book in about two years. Then, as I wrote…
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March 1, 2013 Today’s world of popping out a book
It’s amazing to think that my writing journey has been going on nearly nine hours every single day for five years. I started with the epic World War II story of my Czech father (My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime),naively thinking I’d finish that book in about two years. Then, as I wrote…
MY DEAR BOY: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation
Adventurers Against Their Will
