Howard McEwen, CFA

Thanks for clicking on this link. Here’s the deal: I have released three novelettes in a planned series of ten called The Prescott Carmichael Jaunts. I want to get the word out about them and also score some reviews on Amazon. So below are some free codes to download the stories for free from www.smashwords.com. One [...]

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Jen asked me to write a post for her blog on how to make a comfortable living as a writer. Comfortable? Can’t say that. But take a read here. From the piece: I thought, How should I know? My writing doesn’t make my living comfortable. But it does cover my mortgage most months. And that’s [...]

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Friday night warm and fuzzy. I got the following in an email from a reader. Of course friend who read Wrath say nice things and I discount that as politeness so it’s cool to get feedback from someone I don’t know. They won’t lie to save my feelings! “I just wanted to say I just [...]

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Technorati ranks Big Hollywood one of the Top 100 Entertainment blogs, a Top 100 Film blog, and a Top 100 Celebrity blog. It gets a lot of traffic. They’ve reviewed my novel reviwed my novel Wrath – the life and assassination of a United States Governor recently. Pretty cool. Take a look here for the [...]

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This was nice. So Google alerts just caught up with Kentucky Monthly magazine and delivered this review I had missed back in October. It’s delivered as a PDF but the link is here. I typed up the text of it below. It’s written by David Domine. David and I did a book event together. If [...]

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No not really. But she acted as if I did. So it’s pre-7 am and I’m in the automated check-out lane at the Kroger store buying a 12-pack of Diet Dr. K. I’m a frugal caffienne addict, you see. I reached into my right hand pocket to pull out my wallet. Now also in that [...]

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This one showed up here at Amazon on Wrath’s page. I might shoot him myself. While the rise to power by the main character is relentless and unstoppable, the development of the Mountain Man is profound. From the opening line in the kitchen to the closing when everything goes black, Wrath kept me going and [...]

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Yesterday I stood in line at Chipotle’s and watched two moms out together with their two school-aged kids each. The first mom sat down, put the food and drinks in front of herself and her kids and the three began to eat. The second mom had her children sit down then she carefully unwrapped each [...]

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I remembered I needed gifts for folks in my professional life and the answer to that question is always booze. I trotted down the street the the discount liquor store sandwiched between a check cashing place and place that says “American Food” ran by accented guys from an indeterminate Eastern European country. The place was [...]

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You can click here. An excerpt: Are you currently working on any projects? Wrath was a pretty serious novel where I tried to delve deep into the psyche of some pretty dark people. I then wrote a novella about a self-absorbed father who destroys his family. I’m letting that one sit for a while before [...]

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