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The first complete print book in the "Writing Right" series offers one of the least tapped and most helpful sources of information on writing, editing, and publishing in the world: the author''s personal experience. When someone sets out to be an author at the age of 14 and makes a go of it for the next half-century, he has some stories to tell. And some information to impart. And some inspiration to share. In this book, D. J. Herda offers all that and more. Based upon his years of teaching various writing courses and Creative Writing Workshop, plus his publishing, editing, and ghostwriting experiences, he is the ultimate source of information ... now available in this book for the first time ever. Here you''ll find tips on writing, editing, publishing, marketing, POD processes, landing a top literary agent, and much more from a ninety-book author who has spent half a century in the industry. Are there really secrets in the pages to come? Yes-some never revealed before. And everything you read about here, as well as in the author''s eBook "About Writing Right" series, is one hundred percent accurate and based upon first-hand experience and relentless investigation. No hunches masquerading as truths. No realities hiding behind suppositions. As Sgt. Joe Friday used to say on the classic television series, Dragnet: "Just the facts, ma''am. Just the facts." Learn what the author has to share based upon some of the thousands of questions asked of him over the years. Read, enjoy, and prosper. And then pass that information along to a friend.

A shady landlady with a half-dozen skips on her hands, a suburban contractor in the Mob''s cross-hairs, a nearly frozen fisherman with a sloe-eyed, murderous blonde to heat things up. From the wealthy Near North Side and the chimera of Rush Street to the city''s plebeian suburbs, here''s a cross-section of Chi-Town''s most secretive, seductive, and seditious characters. All the cops, dicks, cons, dames, skirts, and criminals whose paths a living body could ever hope to cross-or not!-appear in this whimsical, haunting, riveting, and erotically charged neo-noir. From Crime and Punishment to Humor, Spirituality, and Redemption, this is life as it used to be in the Second City. Uncover the real Chicago at the hands of a native Chicagoan whose latest book brims with mystery around every aging brownstone-and mayhem atop each spiraling staircase. Uncover the Second City''s unique brand of crime and criminals in D. J. Herda''s CHI-TOWN BLUES.