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    News of the Day Adventures of a Wildly Cantankerous Veteran Newsroom Saving Dying Newspapers
    News of the Day Adventures of a Wildly Cantankerous Veteran Newsroom Saving Dying Newspapers
    News of the Day Adventures of a Wildly Cantankerous Veteran Newsroom Saving Dying Newspapers
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    News of the Day Adventures of a Wildly Cantankerous Veteran Newsroom Saving Dying Newspapers

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    News of the Day

    Adventures of a Wildly Cantankerous Veteran Newsroom Saving Dying Newspapers

    When billion dollar Hedge Funds decide to revive news empires they destroyed, who do they recruit but Big Burt, the one-eyed editor who rounds up a scurrilo

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Kelton DBA as Edit Ink
    Release dateJun 8, 2021
    ISBN9780578889429
    News of the Day Adventures of a Wildly Cantankerous Veteran Newsroom Saving Dying Newspapers
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    Peter Kelton

    Peter Kelton writes fiction when he's between news jobs and has written for some of the world's largest news organizations. Most of his work has been in New York. He has critiqued more than 450 novels in a national column and has written six novels of his own in a unique erudite literary fiction style of adventure, mystery, suspense and satire. He grew up in Texas, served overseas in the US Army and returned to Europe as a foreign correspondent. He currently divides his time between his homes in East St. Louis, IL and Querétaro, Mexico. He has ghost written for more than 100 clients and is a top-rated writer for the Upwork free-lance agency.

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