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Marks, Jeffrey Alan was born on October 8, 1960 in Georgetown, Ohio, United States. Son of Gerald Ronald and Barbara Ann (Cummins) Marks.
(When General Ulysses Grant returns to his hometown of Geo...)
When General Ulysses Grant returns to his hometown of Georgetown, Ohio just following the end of the Civil War, he gets an unexpected welcome. A stranger lies dead on their hotel bed. Julia wants to press on with the tour, but Grant is unsure whether this was just a "prank" from the townspeople who would rather not see old "Useless" run for president or a warning tied to Southern sympathies. Along with the help of a local newspaper reporter and a Pinkerton agent assigned to protect Grant, Ulysses goes about trying to learn the truth about the killing, and the subsequent attempts on his own life.
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(The only book designed to help authors learn about how to...)
The only book designed to help authors learn about how to market their own genre fiction titles, it's a wealth of knowledge on how to approach the ever changing market of book promotions. Written by Jeffrey Marks, who holds an MBA and has worked in marketing, he walks the author through the basics of marketing from websites and press kits to touring and nominations. Marks is the long time moderator of MurderMustAdvertise, a website and Yahoo Group dedicated to marketing genre fiction.
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(The first book to specifically address the marketing of g...)
The first book to specifically address the marketing of genre fiction, INTENT TO SELL, is written by Jeffrey Marks, the award-winning author of mystery novels and short story collections. He shares information as helpful to the novice as it is to the multipublished author.
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(America in the 1950s was a place of Eisenhower, the Korea...)
America in the 1950s was a place of Eisenhower, the Korean Conflict, McCarthy, and Sputnik. Women found themselves trapped into a mold of Donna Reed and June Cleaver, marginalized by the hyper-masculinity of the age. Mystery fiction had become a male bastion as well, promoting hardboiled private eye novels and spy fiction. It would be another three decades before groups to promote equality between the sexes in mystery fiction appeared. Yet during that post-World War II era, seven women carved out a place in the genre. These women became the bestsellers of their time by innovation and experimentation. Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsmith, Leslie Ford, Charlotte Armstrong, Dorothy B. Hughes, Mignon Eberhart, and Phoebe Atwood Taylor are in no way similar to each other in style, theme, or subject matter. However, their writings created an Atomic Renaissance that continues to impact the mystery field today.
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(15 CANINE CRIMES COMMITTED BY A KENNEL OF TOP WRITERS ...)
15 CANINE CRIMES COMMITTED BY A KENNEL OF TOP WRITERS ¸ Deborah Adams ¸ Laurien Berenson ¸ Melissa Cleary ¸ Amanda Cross ¸ Brendan DuBois ¸ Jonnie Jacobs ¸ Dean James ¸ Jeffrey Marks ¸ Taylor McCafferty ¸ Anne Perry ¸ Lillian M. Roberts ¸ S. J. Rozan ¸ Polly Whitney ¸ Valerie Wolzien ¸ Steven Womack Here is a captivating collection of never-before-published stories with bark--and an occasional bite--as some of the most illustrious names in contemporary crime fiction pay homage to our loyal friends. A pair of friendly mutts help solve a haunting Central Park mystery . . . A Seeing Eye dog on Fifth Avenue sees more than he's meant to . . . A golden retriever lends a helping paw to his mistress's curious pursuits . . . A Jack Russell terrier sniffs out a human rat . . . Some beloved pets thwart their owner's murderously greedy son . . . A Labrador retriever confounds a kidnapper's design . . . and many more!
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(Waggish tales of dogs, Christmas, and murder-- by sixteen...)
Waggish tales of dogs, Christmas, and murder-- by sixteen of today's best-loved crime novelists! Deborah Adams - Melissa Cleary - Mark Graham - Patricia Guiver - Jane Haddam - Parnell Hall - Jeremiah Healy - Dean James - Virginia Lanier - David Leitz - Jeffrey Marks - Taylor McCafferty - Leslie O'Kane - Anne Perry - H. Robert Perry - Lillian M. Roberts A temperamental Yorkie provokes Yuletide mayhem at an English country house . . . A puppy forgotten in Santa's bag helps quell a coup at the North Pole . . . During a snow-white Christmas, a Portuguese water dog noses out murder at a Vermont inn . . . and many more! These thrilling tales of canine derring-do give dog lovers the treat of celebrating Christmas with sleuthhounds of many breeds--as they sniff out crime and render holiday justice. "From the Paperback edition."
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(Craig Rice (1908-1957), the pseudonym of Georgiana Craig ...)
Craig Rice (1908-1957), the pseudonym of Georgiana Craig Rice, was the author of an extraordinary series of screwball mysteries about John J. Malone, a bibulous, blonde-fancying lawyer, who claims never to have lost a case. In the twelve stories first collected in this book, Malone investigates a killing in an undertakers' parade, a psychiatrist's patient who dreams of murder, an unknown man killed in a rented sailor's suit, and a terrified memory expert. As a special bonus, two of the stories feature Rice's lesser known sleuth, Melville Fairr, a little grey man but a formidable detective. Rice's biographer, Jeffrey A. Marks, has chosen and written new prefaces to each story.
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("With A GOOD SOLDIER, Jeffrey Marks captures an intriguin...)
"With A GOOD SOLDIER, Jeffrey Marks captures an intriguing new side of General U.S. Grant, and the interplay between Grant and Julia, the love of his life, rings true. Young Jess Grant is full of boyish curiosity while Grant's irascible father, Jesse R. Grant, could easily drive Grant to drink. In this outing, the future President's detecting abilities are put to the test as he discovers secrets and greed and finds how even small communities like Bethel, Ohio, can harbor good people gone bad." --Jan Grape, author of Austin City Blue and a short story in The First Lady Murders, titled, "Julia Dent Grant, a.k.a. Private Eye."
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Marks, Jeffrey Alan was born on October 8, 1960 in Georgetown, Ohio, United States. Son of Gerald Ronald and Barbara Ann (Cummins) Marks.
Bachelor of Science in Applied Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1983. Master of Business Administration, Xavier University, Cincinnati, 1986. Master of Education, University Cincinnati, 2005.
He has one sister, Lisa. Marks is best known for the series of literary criticisms he has written on American mystery authors of the middle Twentieth Century. His first work, Craig Rice.
Queen of the Screwball Mystery, was nominated for every major mystery award including the Edgar, the Agatha, the Anthony and the Macavity Marks" next work was Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s/1950s, which again was nominated for an Agatha.
Mark then wrote Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel, which is now in its fourth edition He became the moderator of Murder Must Advertise, a website and email group that discusses the best ways to market genre fiction in a changing marketplace.
He has completed a biography of mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, the author who created Perry Mason among other characters and has published a monograph on the pulp fiction works of Gardner, entitled Pulp Icons. He is currently working on a biography of the collaborative cousins who wrote as Ellery Queen.
Marks is also a contributing editor to Mystery Scene Magazine and the director of development for Crippen & Landru.
He remarried in August, 2003. He lives in White Oak, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
(Waggish tales of dogs, Christmas, and murder-- by sixteen...)
(15 CANINE CRIMES COMMITTED BY A KENNEL OF TOP WRITERS ...)
(The only book designed to help authors learn about how to...)
(The first book to specifically address the marketing of g...)
(When General Ulysses Grant returns to his hometown of Geo...)
(Craig Rice (1908-1957), the pseudonym of Georgiana Craig ...)
(America in the 1950s was a place of Eisenhower, the Korea...)
("With A GOOD SOLDIER, Jeffrey Marks captures an intriguin...)
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Author: The Ambush of My Name, 2001, Who Was That Lady?, 2001, Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel, 2002, A Good Soldier, 2003, Atomic Renaissance, 2003, A Life in Review- The Anthony Boucher Story, 2007. Editor: Canine Crimes, 1998, A Canine Christmas, 1999, Magnolias and Mayhem, 2000, Murder, Mystery and Malone, 2002 (Oh'uana Library. citation, 2004).
Member Mystery Writers American, Sisters in Crime.