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Jul 6
1 min

Paperback Jacket for The Edge of Hell

Some folks (like me) buy their fiction strictly electronically for their mobile devices, etc. So for those who do, I thought I'd share th...

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S.K. Keogh

Mar 29
3 min

Another Real Life Inspiration

A few blog posts ago, I talked about how the infamous real life pirate Blackbeard inspired an aspect of one of my major characters, James...

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S.K. Keogh

Feb 27
4 min

RICE AND SLAVERY IN COLONIAL AMERICA

In honor of Black History Month, I thought I would repost this article I wrote a couple of years ago when my novel The Driver's Wife was ...

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S.K. Keogh

Dec 15, 2019
3 min

What's a Jester Doing in This Story?

A fool began it, but a woman turned it murderous.

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S.K. Keogh

Sep 2, 2019
4 min

An Unexpected Tale of St. Francis

Today's guest post is from author Tinney Sue Heath, who writes historical fiction set in Italy in the middle ages. Her second novel, Lady...

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S.K. Keogh

Aug 17, 2019
2 min

The Real-Life Inspiration Behind James Logan

In the earlier drafts of my novel The Prodigal, the entire story was told only from the point of view of the two main characters--Jack Ma...

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S.K. Keogh

Jul 15, 2019
6 min

Meet the Man Behind the Voice

So far The Prodigal and The Alliance have been produced as audiobooks (available on Audible and iTunes), and the production of The Fortun...

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