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Sales of “One Fiddle Too Many”

In Van Poole's Corner on August 31, 2011 at 9:54 am

Sales of “One Fiddle Too Many” are going well. I will be selling and signing books at a number of locations in the coming weeks, and have placed an order that should be delivered soon so that I will have plenty to go around.

I want to thank everybody who has already bought a copy. Tell your friends how much you enjoyed reading it and maybe they will buy one too. I think the book has great appeal to people who like reading about Jacksonville when it was in its heyday of hosting northern visitors at the turn of the twentieth century. While times have changed, we still serve as a winter destination for folks from northern cities wanting a more hospitable climate for their winter months. The main difference now is that there are so many other choices.

If you have read “One Fiddle Too Many” and enjoyed it, one way of expressing yourself and providing feedback is to go Amazon.com and search for the title. You will find both the paperback version and the Kindle version. Click on one or the other and click the “Like” button. Then, scroll down the page toward the bottom and you will see a section called “Tag this product.” There is a little box there where you can type in a word that you think you think helps describe the book. It could be “mystery,” “historic fiction,” “violins,” or whatever word comes to mind. These two actions will help the book show up in searches whenever those key words are entered. The “like” button shows amazon.com that the book has a certain popularity and this will also help it show up in searches. If anyone is really energetic, amazon provides a platform for readers to write and submit their own reviews as one reader has already done.

Thanks to all and I really hope to see you at any of these upcoming book signing events.

1. September ArtWalk, Wednesday, September 7th. Chamblin’s Uptown, 215 N. Laura Street. 5:00 PM – 8:00PM.

2. Jacksonville Historical Society Monthly Meeting. Tuesday, September 13th, Old St. Andrews, 317 A.Philip Randolph Bv. 6:30 PM

3. Riverside Arts Market Literary Day. Saturday, September 17th. 10:00AM – 4:00PM. On Riverside Avenue, under the Fuller Warren Bridge.

4. Florida Heritage Book Festival, Saturday, September 24th, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL. (More details on this event will be available later.)

5. Affair in the Square. Thursday, October 20th, 6:00PM – 9:00PM, in front of San Marco Bookstore

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Reader Review of “One Fiddle Too Many.”

In Van Poole's Corner on August 26, 2011 at 11:18 am

Customer Reviews One Fiddle Too Many

5.0 out of 5 stars Hopefully, One Fiddle Too Many Is Just the Start,August 20, 2011

This review is from: One Fiddle Too Many (Kindle Edition)

One Fiddle Too Many, by Jordan Logue, is about an interesting set of characters in an interesting time, in an interesting place. It is a refreshingly literate read with the author obviously having acquainted himself with the vocal idioms of the time and place, Jacksonville, Florida in 1901. That is not to say it is written in dialect, it merely reflects the way people talked at that point in history. True Grit is another book that does this. Lambert Van Poole navigates the maze of knowledge that leads to the solution to a murder in a persistent determined way, learning, as he goes, about violins, music and musicians. Logue gives the reader a feel for the place that is almost like walking down a real street 110 years ago with a real detective. You get drawn into the justice (and injustice) of the time, when rules were based upon a moral ethos rather than an attempt to avoid being sued. Yet the pervasiveness of political concerns is still evident as the Chief of Police and Mayor attempt to preserve Jacksonville’s status as a winter paradise in the pre-Miami Florida tourism era. An explainable murder, which is resolved and appears to be a one-time fluke based upon an individual’s greed is a much less disturbing event than a random, apparently motiveless, street murder to the city fathers in a tourist area. You get the feeling that you have an insider’s view of police procedures of the time. Lambert Van Poole should be played by Gary Cooper. He is stalwart, heroic and human. Hopefully One Fiddle Too Many is just the start of a long series of novels by Jordan Logue.

 

Upcoming dates for “One Fiddle Too Many”

In Van Poole's Corner on August 26, 2011 at 10:54 am

Greetings friends and neighbors and fans of Lambert Van Poole from across the globe. My first book, “One Fiddle Too Many” is selling very well. In fact I have stayed so busy keeping up with things that I have been neglecting my duties of regularly updating content here.

One set of enthusiastic Van-Poolians, as they call themselves, have been after me to publicize my schedule of book-signings.  I really had wanted to keep them quiet and hope nobody showed up, because I am running very low on ink. Not in my printer, but in my fountain pen. Call me eccentric, call me old-fashioned (or mix me an old-fashioned), but I use a fountain pen. Not a cartridge pen, a fountain pen. The kind with the lever on the side of the barrel, and you stick the nib into a bottle of ink to fill the barrel. Anyway, I am perilously low on ink. To avoid running out entirely, I was secretly hoping that no one would come my book signings and it would not be an issue. But one adoring fan sent me a bottle of blue ink so I am now back in business and can sign several thousand copies if called upon to do so.

I am however, running perilously low on actual books. (This part is not a joke!) There are signed copies available for sale at the following locations:

  • Chamblin’s Bookmine -Roosevelt Boulevard
  • Chamblin’s Uptown – 215 Laura St.
  • Lenny’s Custom Jewelry – Avondale Shopping Center
  • The Violin Shoppe – Beach & Southside Boulevard
  • The Jacksonville Historic Society, 317 A.Philip Randolph Boulevard
Now here is the schedule for signings:
  1. September ArtWalk, Wednesday, September 7th. Chamblin’s Uptown, 215 N. Laura Street. 5:00 PM – 8:00PM.
  2. Jacksonville Historical Society Monthly Meeting. Tuesday, September 13th, Old St. Andrews, 317 A.Philip Randolph Bv. 6:30 PM
  3. Riverside Arts Market Literary Day. Saturday, September 17th. 10:00AM – 4:00PM. On Riverside Avenue, under the Fuller Warren Bridge.
  4. Florida Heritage Book Festival, Saturday, September 24th, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL. (More details on this event will be available later.)
  5. Affair in the Square. Thursday, October 20th, 6:ooPM – 9:00PM, in front of San Marco Bookstore

Come by and visit at any of these events. Copies of the book will be available for sale at all of these, depending on availability. If you have bought a copy through amazon.com, bring it by and I will be happy to sign it for you. If you have bought a copy from one of the local outlets that is already signed, bring it by and I will personalize it for you.

I hope everyone is enjoying “One Fiddle Too Many.” I should have the second Lambert Van Poole mystery out by the end of this year. Working title is “A Test of Wills.”