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- ["Superior Keepers":  Marquette's Coast Guard Station](https://johnsmolens.com/uncategorized/superior-keepers-marquettes-coast-guard-station/) - Article in the Marquette Monthly, page 20: November 2023 Marquette Monthly by marquettemonthly - Issuu
- [October Events & Beyond](https://johnsmolens.com/uncategorized/october-events-beyond/) - Finally. Off the road after several weeks. Great to see folks at events in Michigan—Fremont District Public Library, the Heartland Booksellers Convention at the Ren Center in Detroit, and the River’s Edge Brewery in Milford (my first reading at a brewery…and hope it’s not my last). Looking forward to more events soon. Stay tuned.
- [Welcome to JohnSmolens.com](https://johnsmolens.com/uncategorized/hello-world/) - Welcome to JohnSmolends.com first blog post. Here is where I provide funny, thoughtful, and interesting commentary about writing, hockey, and living life in the UP! Don't be surprised if along the way you might learn something.
- [JohnSmolens.com is Live](https://johnsmolens.com/uncategorized/johnsmolens-com-is-live/) - JohnSmolens.com is live. I’ve been busy creating a new website for John Smolens, Today, I have the pleasure of announcing the new website is now live.

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- [John Smolens.com](https://johnsmolens.com/) - John Smolens, author of the new novel "A Cold, Hard Prayer," coming in October 2023 from Michigan State University Press website home page.
- [John Smolens Articles & Short Stories](https://johnsmolens.com/john-smolens-articles-short-stories/) - John Smolens Articles & Short Stories Introduction Welcome to John Smolens Articles & Short Stories webpage. Located on this webpage is a selection of published and unpublished articles and short stories. These provide an example of the kind of writings that John Smolens has produced. Possession (s) - a short story from his published collection
- [John Smolens Blog](https://johnsmolens.com/john-smolens-blog/)
- [Possession (s)](https://johnsmolens.com/possession-s/) - Possession (s) A New Short Story Collection from John Smolens Possession (s) In settings familiar and foreign, from the shores of the Great Lakes, to rural Ireland and Scotland, the boulevards of 19th-century Paris, and an ancient Italian hill-town, John Smolens’ stories delineate his protagonists’ fears, doubts, and uncertainties, tempered by irony, humor, and tenacity.
- [Events](https://johnsmolens.com/sample-page/) - John Smolens Events - Readings, Workshops, and Book Signings This page is where you can find where author John Smolens discusses his newest novel, "Possession (s)," which is now available from Michigan University Press. John Smolens is available for readings and speaking engagements. To contact John Smolens, use the Contact Form or email: jsmolens@nmu.edu. No
- [Books](https://johnsmolens.com/books/) - Click the image to get details about the John Smolens books:
- [Publications](https://johnsmolens.com/publications/) - This webpage displays links to a selection of articles, columns, and short stories that have been published by John Smolens: Marquette Monthly Magazine October 2024 Issue In the October, 2024 issue of Marquette Monthly magazine on page 15 is my article called “Restoring Freya.” Smolens' Wins Novel a 'Michigan Notable Book' Northern Today, the official news
- [Wolf's Mouth](https://johnsmolens.com/book-wolfs-mouth/) - Wolf’s Mouth, a Library of Michigan Notable Book Award, 2017 Wolf's Mouth This breathlessly paced, plot-driven action novel covers a wide range of historical, geographical, and emotional ground. With Wolf’s Mouth, John Smolens offers suspense, intricate plotting, sweeping historical subjects, violence, love, and war. This impressive array of action, introspection, and international settings has something for
- [A Cold, Hard Prayer](https://johnsmolens.com/a-cold-hard-prayer/) - A New Novel by John Smolens: A Cold, Hard Prayer In 1924, an orphan train passes through the Midwest, and two teenagers, seeking a new life, find nothing but hardship when taken in to live on a farm in Michigan. Mercy, a teenage girl of mixed race, and a boy nicknamed Rope, who lost fingers
- [About](https://johnsmolens.com/about/) - John Smolens John Smolens has published twelve works of fiction, eleven novels and a collection of short stories. His most recent novel is Day of Days, which has been selected as a Library of Michigan Notable Book for 2022. His novel Wolf’s Mouth was selected as a Library of Michigan Notable Book for 2017. His
- [Winter By Degrees](https://johnsmolens.com/winter-by-degrees-2/) - Winter By Degrees In historic Newburyport, Massachusetts, the swift tidal currents of the Merrimack River are as treacherous as they are beautiful. When an unidentified man drowns on a bleak winter’s day, the event inspires fear and anger—but it also unites Newburyporters, reminding them that living hard by the sea requires uncommon fortitude and endurance.
- [Cold](https://johnsmolens.com/cold-2/) - Cold In the frozen reaches of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, fierce winter storms can hit without notice. In the white opacity of one such blizzard, Norman Haas simply walks away from his prison work detail without detection. After agonizing days of blistering cold, Norman finds himself at the farmhouse of a lonely middle-aged woman who gives
- [The Invisible World](https://johnsmolens.com/the-invisible-world/) - The Invisible World Boston journalist Sam Adams suspects that his father may have been the infamous gunman who shot President Kennedy from the grassy knoll in 1963. True or not, Sam is certain that his father, the elusive John Adams, is responsible for his sister Abigail’s tortured life of drugs, prostitution, and the conviction that
- [Fire Point](https://johnsmolens.com/fire-point/) - Fire Point At nineteen, Hannah LeClaire already has a reputation in the village of Whitefish Harbor, where she grew up. She is a solitary young woman who is given to long walks along the coast of Lake Superior. On a cold April day, she wanders into a dilapidated house and meets Martin Reed, who has
- [The Anarchist](https://johnsmolens.com/book-the-anarchist/) - The Anarchist On a stifling, hot afternoon in September 1901, a young anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, who has been stalking President William McKinley, waits in line to meet the president, his right hand wrapped in a handkerchief and held across his chest as though it were in a sling. But the handkerchief conceals a .32-caliber revolver.
- [Out](https://johnsmolens.com/book-out/) - Out The sequel to John Smolens’s internationally acclaimed novel Cold, finds the former constable Del Maki recovering from surgery and haunted by the recent loss of his wife. During a fierce blizzard, his house, set deep in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, becomes a haven for refugees from the storm. When his pregnant physical
- [Day of Days](https://johnsmolens.com/book-day-of-days/) - Day of Days, a Library of Michigan Notable Book Award, 2022. Day of Days In the spring 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring the public school, as well as his farm, with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. The explosions on May 18, the day before graduation,
- [My One and Only Bomb Shelter](https://johnsmolens.com/my-one-and-only-bomb-shelter-2/) - My One and Only Bomb Shelter There's danger -- sometimes palpable, sometimes faint or comic, but nonetheless real -- behind each of these beautifully crafted stories in John Smolens' collection. The sense of danger is what helps make these stories beautiful and compelling. Danger becomes a context for these stories and raises their stakes so
- [Angel's Head](https://johnsmolens.com/angels-head/) - Angel's Head Fear of the future and dreams of the past collide in the remote New England island setting of this evocative, affecting tale by the author of Winter by Degrees . The island of Angel’s Head draws its own back as a summer ends. Mark is an unfulfilled journalist. Eliot is a developer who
- [The Schoolmasters Daughter](https://johnsmolens.com/book-the-schoolmasters-daughter/) - The Schoolmasters Daughter Set in Boston in 1775, a story of espionage, love, and occupation, based on the courageous acts of Abigail Lovell and her brothers James and Benjamin during the first year of the American Revolution. Click to purchase “The Schoolmaster's Daughter”
- [Quarantine](https://johnsmolens.com/book-quarantine/) - Quarantine The year is 1796, and a trading ship arrives in the vibrant trading town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. But it's a ghost ship―her entire crew has been decimated by a virulent fever that sweeps through the harbor town, and Newburyport's residents start to fall ill and die with alarming haste. As the epidemic grows, fear,
- [Contact Us](https://johnsmolens.com/contact-us/) - Use this webpage to contact John Smolens.
- [A Cold, Hard Prayer FAQ](https://johnsmolens.com/a-cold-hard-prayer-faq/) - A Cold, Hard Prayer - Frequently Asked Questions Here is where you put a section of questions about the book - in Q & A Interview format Question - How long did it take for you to write this book? Answer: I started researching the book after reading an article in the newspaper.

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