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post about Marilyn and Sandy

Marilyn’s Fans Post About Her

Posted onAugust 1, 2017Leave a comment

Susan Prince Jones put up this post today: Russell Little, your book was fantastic!!!!!  Read it in 2 days.  Couldn’t put it down!!!!  Reviewed it on Amazon also.  Keep writing!!!! And she posted this picture. She’s an alumna of Amarillo Read More …

CategoriesReading, Writing

pitch: astros baseball

A Good Pitch

Posted onJuly 26, 2017Leave a comment

I’m watching the Houston Astros. They win with football scores these days. 19 to 5. 10 to 2. It reminds me of when my son Will played baseball in the seventh grade. Big kid ball. Hard throws. Fast bats. Dangerous Read More …

CategoriesFamily, Sport, WritingTagsbaseball, Hemingway, will

traveling in cabo

Marilyn Traveling

Posted onJuly 11, 2017Leave a comment

We had a great trip traveling to Cabo this past week. We went with our granddaughter. We also allowed her mom and dad to go. Of course, Marilyn came along. South Africa Marilyn was busy last week. Susie and Greg Read More …

CategoriesTravel, WritingTagsCabo San Lucas, Marilyn, South Africa

Best-seller book signing

A Party and A Best-Seller

Posted onJuly 11, 2017Leave a comment

One year ago this last weekend my best-seller Murder For Me became available on Amazon. We had a big party at One Park Place in Houston, Texas. A couple of hundred people came to celebrate the publishing of my first book. Read More …

CategoriesWritingTagsbest-seller, party

Book Clubs

Posted onJuly 1, 2017Leave a comment

Speaking at a Book Club I visited with a great book club the other day. I write “visited” because it was much better than just me speaking. We discussed characters in my book, Murder For Me, why I wrote the Read More …

CategoriesWritingTagsclubs

Work: Marilyn on a Spanish beach

Marilyn on the Spanish Mediterranean

Posted onJune 11, 2017Leave a comment

Last night I received the nicest email. As I work on the sequel to my novel Murder for Me, things like this keep me going. Writing isn’t easy work Writing isn’t easy for me. It’s hard work. I have to Read More …

CategoriesWritingTagsquestion, spain, suggestion

Mark & Marilyn

Mark and Marilyn

Posted onMay 27, 2017May 27, 2017Leave a comment

Papal Blessings When my wife wrote that Marilyn was blessed, Mark A. Callahan wrote me: “Truthfully, it is blessed. Pope Francis offers a blessing to all present and their possessions (including any religious articles purchased at the gates of the Read More …

CategoriesTravel, WritingTagsathens, petra, rome, vatican

reviews on paradise beach

Reading My Amazon Reviews

Posted onApril 3, 2017April 2, 2017Leave a comment

I’ve received three recent reviews on Amazon giving Murder For Me 59 total. Reviews are vital for selling books online. The algorithm used rates and promotes your book partially in response to how many reviews you have and how readers Read More …

CategoriesWritingTagsamazon, reviews

hard drive: no better time

Not A Better Time

Posted onApril 2, 2017April 2, 2017Leave a comment

I had to go visit the Geek Squad today. My external backup drive (the one we keep our travel videos on) broke. It was the slow part of the day, so I was their only customer. They were very helpful and Read More …

CategoriesThis and That, WritingTagsBest Buy, cia, geek squad, joke, writing

O.C. Got Hoodooed: Short Story

O.C. Got Hoodooed: A Short Story

Posted onMarch 16, 2017Leave a comment

In my novel Murder For Me, O.C. Simms is the Chief Detective for Homicide with the Houston Police Department. In it he battles sociopaths, psychotics, and his own department’s bureaucracy. I wrote this short story about O.C. Simms as a young officer at Read More …

CategoriesWritingTagsshort story

Marilyn book launch

Marilyn: What Happened Next?

Posted onMarch 10, 2017March 10, 2017Leave a comment

The Next Phase   I wrote Murder For Me over several years. I wrote for my mother, and I had to get it finished before she was gone. She read it four times before she died. It was published in Read More …

CategoriesWritingTagsmurder for me

surfing lesson

Hard Lesson

Posted onJanuary 9, 2017February 10, 2017Leave a comment

Writing Lesson I’m writing chapter three of The Artist, and I learned a hard lesson today. I’ve begun training for a four day mountain hike in Big Bend Park, and I’ve tripled my workouts. I started the day with a 45 minute Read More …

CategoriesTravel, WritingTagsSan Diego, super bowl, surfing

Are Your Ears Burning? A Great Message!

Posted onDecember 4, 2016February 11, 2017Leave a comment

Are your ears burning? I took your book to school and told kids I went to middle school with the author! I have several kids who want to write books! They were/are impressed…so you are inspiring young kids too!! I Read More …

CategoriesFamily, WritingTagsgrandkids, inspiration, kids

autographed copy of Murder for Me

Autographed Copy

Posted onNovember 16, 2016February 11, 2017Leave a comment

I sent an autographed copy to a reader of my book Murder for Me (now available on Amazon) who posted: A real honor to receive my autographed book today from Russell! So very excited to get my read on!!! Thanks Read More …

CategoriesWritingTagsautograph, book

Cyber Monday Sale

Cyber Monday is Coming!

Posted onNovember 14, 2016February 12, 2017Leave a comment

Cyber Monday is just around the corner and Ed Stack just posted on Facebook: Just finished reading Murder for Me by Russell Little. It’s a quick little roller coaster ride through the inner workings of the criminal justice system in Read More …

CategoriesWritingTagsamazon, books, sale

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