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Jim Alkon

Jim Alkon

Jim Alkon is Editorial Director of BookTrib.com. Jim is a veteran of the business-to-business media and marketing worlds, with extensive experience in business development and content. Jim is a writer at heart – whether a book review, blog, white paper, corporate communication, marketing or sales piece, it really doesn’t matter as long as he is having fun and someone is benefitting from it.

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Jim Alkon

Fiction

“Faith on Fire” During a Difficult Time in American History

I was pacing nicely through Faith on Fire: Thy Will Be Done (Gatekeeper Press), Deborah Curtin’s intriguing historical fiction novel about a family torn apart during the Civil War in which the protagonist is modeled after the author’s real-life great grandfather. I was busy seeing the pieces come together, nodding…
Jim Alkon
January 6, 2020
Fiction

Time Travelers Tempt Fate With Plan to Save Jesus

When the lords of literature — the same lot who gave us science fiction — gifted us with the marvelous concept of time travel, they opened the doors to endless plot possibilities, no matter how plausible. So if you are going to employ it, why not swing for the fences? That’s…
Jim Alkon
December 11, 2019
Author Spotlight

Karen Keilt: 6 Questions About a Harrowing Memoir

“In January 1976, I was a bliss-filled, 23-year-old newlywed. Three months after our wedding, my husband and I were awakened at 3:00 a.m. by men with guns. We feared we were being kidnapped by hardened criminals. Kidnapping was then -- and still is -- a common occurrence in Brazil. As…
Jim Alkon
December 2, 2019
Nonfiction

Tragedy on the Baseball Diamond – 100 Years Later

In a beautiful historic Cleveland cemetery that includes the gravesites of President James A. Garfield, John D. Rockefeller and Eliot Ness among others, the grave of Ray Chapman, some 100 years after his death, is one of the most frequently visited. Ray in many ways was just an ordinary guy …
Jim Alkon
December 1, 2019
Miscellany

Meditations on Finding Gratitude in the Small Things

Those words are at the heart of a philosophy expressed through a blog by Deborah Hawkins called “No Small Thing.” The longtime writer and workshop leader has written close to 500 posts and now has assembled her favorite 50 into a special collection entitled Best of No Small Thing –…
Jim Alkon
November 8, 2019
Author Spotlight

5 Questions for Margo T Krasne in Touching Romp Through NYC

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/I-Was-There-All-Along-Margo-Krasne-550x465.jpg Margo T. Krasne, a young actress wannabe, had been invited by a friend to see the new Elaine May and Mike Nichols Broadway show. They had great seats. Nichols seemed to notice their raucous laughs during the performance and at the curtain motioned them to come backstage. Next thing…
Jim Alkon
November 4, 2019

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