Thoughts from Rob

  • Country Doctors – A Fading Memory

    Country Doctors – A Fading Memory

    At eighty-seven, Dr. Russell Dohner still sees patients who come by his office off the town square in Rushville, Illinois, just like he has done for the past sixty years. But time marches on, and Dr. Dohner has been forced to more than double his fee for a first-come-first-served office…

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  • Homeless Horseman – A Real Life Alastar Connolly

    Homeless Horseman – A Real Life Alastar Connolly

    In the story, An Irish Miracle, Alastar Connolly’s horses were not only his companions, they were his best friends. Friends that always listened. Friends that never judged. (Well, almost never.) During dark times, Alastar’s horses were his only family, and he often slept in their stalls, burrowed deep in the…

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  • The (Long) Tail of Self-Published Authors

    The (Long) Tail of Self-Published Authors

    I read Meghan Ward’s excellent Writerland blog post, Does Social Media Sell Books?, this morning, and thought I would share a version of my comments here: I recently came across two terms that relate to me as a self-published and self-marketed author: “Googlable“: I have a blog that comes up…

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