David C. Handler is a bitter 68 year old man who loves Justin Bieber. Outraged by media ridicule of a grown man said to have gotten a large tattoo of Bieber's face on the front of his thigh, Handler has taken the burden upon himself to defend all the men of his age who happen to enjoy Bieber's music.In this eBook, Handler defensively and defiantly promulgates 75 reasons for his unyielding belief: It's okay for an Old Man to be a Bieber Fan.

Down on his luck, a writer takes a ghostwriting job for a troubled comedian.Stewart Hoag's first novel made him the toast of New York. Everyone in Manhattan wanted to be his friend, and he traveled the cocktail circuit supported by Merilee, his wife, and Lulu, his basset hound. But when writer's block sunk his second novel, his friends, money, and wife all disappeared. Only Lulu stuck by him. The only opportunity left is ghostwriting -- an undignified profession th...

TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT……And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, features 20 stories of people dealing with not just the torrid weather, but all different kinds of heat. From a retired police chief pitching in on a missing dog report that leads to him solving a murder to...

When America's favorite sitcom star disgraces himself, Hoagy steps in.Lyle Hednut, known to America as Uncle Chubby, has been the top draw in television comedy for three seasons straight. He is three hundred pounds of good humor and wholesome charm, beloved by children and adults alike until the day the police find him enjoying the show at the wrong kind of movie theater in Times Square. The arrest destroys his image, but his sitcom is too popular for the network t...

Hoagy takes up his pen to defend a friend who's done the indefensible .Stewart Hoag has quit ghostwriting. Living in Connecticut with his ex-wife, Hoagy works on a novel and tends to Tracy, his brand-new daughter, who's more beautiful than anything he's ever written and only took nine months to make. Life is peaceful, until Thor Gibbs arrives to tear it apart. An unapologetically swaggering author, Thor is past seventy but still looks like the brash young man who b...

A sequel to a fifty-year-old book puts Hoagy on the scent of a long-cold murder case.Few American novels are as beloved as Alma Glaze's Revolutionary War epic, Oh, Shenandoah. Although Glaze died before she could write a sequel, she left behind an outline for one, along with instructions that it not be written until fifty years after her death. The deadline has passed, and the American public clamors for the long-promised Sweet Land of Liberty. On...

Hoagy tries to save a client from the deadly world of high-stakes publishing.Stewart Hoag knows how quickly fame can fade. The same critics who adored his first novel used his second for target practice, ending his literary career once and for all. To keep his basset hound fed, Hoagy ghostwrites memoirs for the rich, famous, and self-destructive. His newest subject reminds him all too much of himself. By the age of twenty, Cam Noyes is already being hailed as the n...

A killer with a novelist's touch wants Hoagy to be his editor.The author calls himself the Answer Man. He introduces himself to Stewart Hoag -- onetime literary darling of the New York scene -- with a letter begging for help with his first novel. Hoagy usually ignores such requests, but the Answer Man's sample chapter grabs his attention. It is a chilling, first-person story about a man who picks up a girl in a pet shop, takes her home, and savagely murders her. Th...

A famous director, mired in a nasty divorce, hires Hoagy to salvage his name.In Matthew Wax's films, politicians are honest, parents are respected, and nice guys finish first. Wax has been Hollywood's most beloved director for decades, and his personal life seemed as squeaky-clean as the world of his films. But when he and his wife, leading lady Pennyroyal Brim, file for divorce, the mud starts to fly. She accuses him of bedroom tyranny, sexual perversion, and ever...

Hoagy discovers a rock god's deadly side is more than an act.From the first time they played on the Ed Sullivan Show, Us was the hottest band on earth. For more than a decade, the group tore through the charts and indulged in an endless cycle of drugs, women, and violence, until two musicians died -- the drummer by drugs, the guitarist by a crazed gunman. Once the band was finished, lead singer Tristam Scarr retreated to the English countryside, hiding from the wor...

In the next novel in David Handler's Edgar award-winning series, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his beloved basset hound, Lulu, investigate a murder in a fabled Connecticut summer playhouseHollywood ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has chronicled the rise, fall, and triumphant return of many a celebrity. At last he's enjoying his own, very welcome second act. After hitting a creative slump following the success of his debut novel, Hoagy has found inspiration again. Ensconced wit...

A wisecracking ghostwriter and his trusty basset hound investigate the mysterious behavior of a reclusive author in this humorous murder mystery.Perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich and Carl Hiaasen."Handler is so good at writing one smart, funny page-turner after another that he makes it look easy." —Harlan CobenOnce upon a time, Hoagy had it all: a hugely successful debut novel, a gorgeous celebrity wife, the glamo...