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why? "ten boxes"
Above is a piece of digital art I created in February 2017. I titled it Ten Boxes on a midnight blue field. It was an exercise in color...
Robert Sadler
Sep 6, 20211 min read
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Heroine Remembered
Marie Frances Tippit, died Tuesday, March 2, 2011. She was 92. A heroine, known to every officer of the Dallas Police Department and...
Robert Sadler
Aug 1, 20213 min read
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Zoom True Crime Talk on YouTube
Graphic courtesy of Dallas Public Library The graphic above demonstrates the impetus for the Zoom panel discussion that occurred on...
Robert Sadler
Jun 25, 20211 min read
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Patches & Poem on Display
Jane Covington stands between her husband's framed law enforcement patches and my poem, both installed yesterday, June 18th at the Circle...
Robert Sadler
Jun 19, 20211 min read
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ZOOM True Crime Panel Went well!
This past Saturday, June 12th (2pm-3:30pm) I participated in the Zoom panel discussion mentioned below. Thanks to the Dallas Public...
Robert Sadler
Jun 4, 20212 min read
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Plaque @ Desperados
HONORS "MICHAEL GRANT" Desperados Mexican Restaurants Desperados (Uno - 4818 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75206) Desperados (Dos - 3443 W...
Robert Sadler
May 6, 20212 min read
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The Reading Order
I am often asked: "You have a lot of books, where should I start? The answer is... anywhere! Each book in the Michael Grant & Associates...
Robert Sadler
Apr 21, 20212 min read
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SEEING IS BELIEVING II
For 17 novels I have followed the characters as they told and acted their stories. When new characters introduce themselves and new...
Robert Sadler
Apr 18, 20215 min read
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Michael Grant #17
Since I began this novel during the first week in January and during the loss of power and water in February I wrote part of "No... it's...
Robert Sadler
Apr 15, 20211 min read
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characters are often Quotable...
As is often the case when WITD (Writing Into The Dark) characters will and do say the darnedest things, as Art Linkletter used to say of...
Robert Sadler
Mar 10, 20211 min read
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Facing the Kobayashi Maru as a Writer
To be a creative writer, one must give in to the creator and creation. Writers are not the creator; it is the thoughts of the creator...
Robert Sadler
Mar 1, 20212 min read
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Snow & 3Degrees
Photo taken over my courtyard fence at 6:10:15pm on Sunday, February 14. Arctic temps and snow are not unheard of nor unfelt in the...
Robert Sadler
Feb 22, 20212 min read
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Seeing is Believing
I have had requests for lists of, photographs of, and maps of the places Michael Grant, et al, go to or to which they have gone....
Robert Sadler
Jan 26, 202122 min read
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Celebrating 11&16@ Desperados
You're thinking... that picture looks familiar. You and Jake drinking Michael Grant Margaritas at Desperados! What's new about that! This...
Robert Sadler
Jan 21, 20212 min read
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Just before, is here Just in time!
NOW AVAILABLE IN PRINT at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RRDFBN1 In Just before... the 16th novel from the Black Book Investigations of...
Robert Sadler
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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2020 Year End
[ for December 2020: short story: Flying Car Angst; novel, Just before..., and poetry, Opus V.] For Americans, indeed the world, this has...
Robert Sadler
Dec 27, 20203 min read
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AUTHOR Shout-OUT
On October 30, 2020 the following post appeared on author and friend Steve Hodel's website blog: https://stevehodel.com/blog/ Author...
Robert Sadler
Nov 2, 20202 min read
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Coming Soon!
16th Michael Grant Novel - The moment "Just before..." Can Michael Find Her? All he has to go on is the blurry-faced photo of a beautiful...
Robert Sadler
Oct 7, 20202 min read
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A WRITIST?
Because of the artwork I do and have done, I have variously called myself an “artist”. As writing is my most often mode of expression...
Robert Sadler
Sep 5, 20203 min read
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staying busy
Since my last post in mid-January, I have not been idle. With my granddaughter's 1st birthday approaching in the middle of February I...
Robert Sadler
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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