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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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Make Downton Abbey Dishes to Rival Mrs. Patmore

The first official cookbook from the greatly acclaimed Downton Abbey franchise has been announced by Weldon Owen International, with an anticipated launch for Sept. 17. This well-researched and a compelling cookbook from food historian Dr. Annie Gray include more than 100 authentic and delicious period recipes, accompanied by spectacular images…
Jim Alkon
June 19, 2019
Fiction

Fighting Fire with Feelings in “Beneath the Flames”

"With heavy smoke coming from the home, Captain Gregory Lee Renz knew that if the boys were to have any chance of being rescued, he had to get to them quickly.  Without regard for his own safety, he descended the basement stairs and began to search for the boys.” What…
Jim Alkon
June 5, 2019
Nonfiction

Jane Pollak: Time to Say “Enough” with This Marriage

Appreciation. Praise. Approval. Validation. That’s what Jane Pollak sought from her 30-plus years of marriage. Trouble was she was married to the wrong person to provide it. In Pollak’s masterfully written memoir, Too Much of Not Enough (She Writes Press), the intrigue begins in the first paragraph in a therapist’s…
Jim Alkon
June 3, 2019
Nonfiction

Learning to Live While Facing the Prospect of Death

“Are you sure you read the right chart?” Anita Swanson Speake asks her cardiologist. “Are you Anita?” “Yes.” “Then I have the right chart.” It’s a moment so unreal, so unimaginable, that one has to question whether a top-notch medical professional used to sharing delicate information somehow got her paperwork…
Jim Alkon
May 14, 2019
Nonfiction

Did Media Sensationalize, Mislead in Horrific Scandal?

Presumption of Guilt (Hybrid Global Publishing) is written by a former federal prosecutor, Lorna N. Graham, whose colleagues falsely accused an experienced judge of taking money to jail kids. Instead of scrutinizing these heinous allegations, national media reported them as facts, which spawned the notorious “kids for cash” scandal. The…
Jim Alkon
May 13, 2019
Thrillers

Unlocking a Murder Mystery in Key West

Is it that he's a writer? He’s commissioned to write a book about his trauma and near-death experience fighting corruption and killing a man in a small Midwest college town. Is it that he's an investigator? Not by trade, but he has a knack for finding trouble and being drawn…
Jim Alkon
May 8, 2019
Nonfiction

Chronicler of Political Power Brokers Tells How He Does It

“Political power,” writes biographer Robert A. Caro, “shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about.” That’s why Caro explains in his new not-a-memoir Working (Knopf) that he chose as subjects for his massive writing projects the great forces that…
Jim Alkon
May 1, 2019
Nonfiction

My Reading Life: Turning the Page on a Carefree Time

I was a college junior sitting in my off-campus apartment in Syracuse, NY, staring at philosophy and economics books, robust writing assignments and pondering exam schedules. That’s when I decided enough was enough. I left the room and headed downtown. I popped into a drugstore with one of those carousels…
Jim Alkon
April 12, 2019
Thrillers

Better Watch Out: Killer Santa Takes Instead of Gives

Dennis McCort is a learned fellow. He’s a retired college German professor, literary translator, language buff, music expert, and author of several books, ranging from A Kafkaesque Memoir tracing his own experience in psychoanalysis to a comedy, The Man Who Loved Doughnuts. The description of one of his books says…
Jim Alkon
April 3, 2019
Nonfiction

With Usual Wit, Dave Barry Shares Life Lessons from a Dog

Humorist Dave Barry tells the story of being backstage at a local TV morning show, watching a self-help author say in a confident and soothing manner how viewers needed to change their lives to become happier people. Shortly after, in the green room, this same calm, authoritative author, perhaps a…
Jim Alkon
April 1, 2019

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