Belle Gunness and the Bloody Benders were a different breed of criminal, more deadly, and harder to detect. While bank and train robbers rarely harmed their victims, Belle Gunness and the Bender's took a gruesome pleasure in killing their victims before...
Gruesome Illinois is a collection of true-life stories - most of them rescued from old newspaper accounts published over 100 years ago. Only a few of the events in this book - such as the Monmouth Ax Murders have ever made it into print. Except maybe in...
Bat Masterson knew better than most of his contemporaries that the majority of what was written about the old west was little more than rattlesnake piss and bat guano. He said, ""nerve was the quality that marked the great gunfighters.""...
It seems like you have to be a marketing genius just to get buyers to give your listings a casual once over. And, then you have to contend with low ball best offers, non-paying bidders, and listing after listing that close without bids.
Three days before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln had a dream. In it, he awoke to the sound of subdued cries. Slowly, he walked down the stairs and into the East Room of the White House, where he was met with a sickening surprise.
It seems like there are always problems. Something else you have to do. And, just when you think you are done, that's when the real work begins. You need to edit your book. You need to find beta readers, line up reviewers, set up promos. You know what...
A recent study from PEW University says over 44 percent of us have slept with our cell phones. Honestly, cell phones are changing the way we live, work, shop, receive news and other information. The majority of Americans under age eighteen don't know...
It's follows the life of a Baby Boomer who was raised by hard working World War II Era parents who are still not convinced he has learned to wipe himself. He's gone to college, dated, gotten jobs, gotten married, become a father, lost jobs, gotten...
Gruesome Quad-Cities is a collection of true-life stories - most of them rescued from old newspaper accounts published over 100 years ago. Only a few of the events in this book have ever made it into print. Except maybe in musky-old county histories.
Spine-Chilling Murders in Illinois exposes the blood-soaked secrets the history books left out-real crimes, real killers, and terrifying truths buried for over a century.
One hundred years ago Villisca, Iowa made the national spotlight when eight people were butchered in their sleep. Attention quickly turned to the Reverend Lyn Kelley, ""a queer, strange, little preacher man,"" often accused of window...
Itâs not the usual boring history read. Itâs a fast-paced, easy to read, behind the scenes look at the making of Iowa and Illinois focusing on Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois.