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Jim Alkon

Jim Alkon

Jim Alkon is the former 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

Author Spotlight

Shanon Hunt: A New Force in Medical Thriller Genre

A pharmaceutical industry executive for 15 years, Shanon Hunt has parlayed a powerful gene-editing mechanism called CRISPR with her own experience of cutting-edge medical advances into an edge-of-your-seat debut suspense thriller called The Pain Colony (Narrow Ledge Publishing). Hunt’s masterfully plotted and sequenced DNA-focused narrative, with both good- and bad-intentioned…
Jim Alkon
October 23, 2019
Nonfiction

“Killing Pat Garrett,” the Man Who Killed Billy the Kid

The sentence that follows from Brazil, from the recollection of a county sheriff in Las Cruces, NM in 1908, is the basis for David G. Thomas’s incredibly researched work including hundreds of notes, 112 images, over 100 chapters, four appendixes and a 100-year timeline: “’Lock me up, I’ve just killed…
Jim Alkon
October 23, 2019
Romance

Romance Writers Share the Love at RWA 2019

“My family means so much to me,” said author Rosie Danan, while accepting the Romance Writers of America 2019 Golden Heart Award for Best Contemporary Romance, Never Have I Ever. It’s a shame, she added, “that they’ll never be able to read my book.” A funny lot, these romance writers,…
Jim Alkon
July 26, 2019
Thrillers

What Elements Inspired Author’s Debut Thriller

Consider that Jodé Millman has built a business creating guides on where to sit in major metropolitan entertainment venues. Ok, she’s also an attorney, not an uncommon profession to transition to the thriller genre. Coming off the successful launch of her debut The Midnight Call in which an attorney (who else) receives…
Jim Alkon
July 24, 2019
Fiction

Max Mobley’s Wild Take on the Perils of Love

Author discovery is a beautiful thing. What makes it so exciting – and rewarding – is when you come across one of the species that you classify as a literary soul mate. You connect with their style, characters, plot, humor and message. You relate to the world they create and…
Jim Alkon
July 17, 2019