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Congrats to lucky winner – Benita! Readers, please join me welcoming Larry Swetizer , author of The Ghost, the Eggheads, and Babe Ruth’s Piano who’s guest blogging here today, courtesy Pump Up your Book Promotion! In this young adult fiction novel, Freddie Holtzman can’t wait to get to Camp Mason, a summer camp for eggheads or rather, gifted teens. At Camp Mason, a science fair pits the eggheads against one another for the top prize of a five thousand dollar scholarship. But, when the projects go missing, friendships are put to the test, relationships get put on hold, and everyone’s a suspect. To make matters worse, the camp is haunted by young Billy Mason who died there decades ago. The boys are determined to solve the mystery of the ghost and the missing science projects. Making the Leap from Reader to Writer   If you are reading this, you are probably an avid reader. I’ll bet a lot of you are aspiring writers and even more of you have at least thought about writing a book. We all

Alex Cross’s beloved DC is in turmoil as Saudi terrorists unleash deadly attacks upon the city at a time when all the alphabet agencies are already scrambling about trying to locate the two kidnapped children of the President of the United States. Is there a connection? The misleading title, a two-pronged storyline that proceeds at two different paces and with varying degrees of suspense, the overall similarity (at least of the kidnap scenario) to a previous (and stellar) Alex Cross novel (Along Came a Spider) and various questions unasked and/or unanswered make for an embarrassingly tepid reading in James Patterson’s latest Kill Alex Cross (Little Brown & Co, 384p, Isbn-0316198730). There’s no mistaking that the quality of Patterson’s writing continues to shrink along with the length of his chapters. Read more »