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Friday, October 11, 2013

Book Spotlight - Word by Harry Hallman

Word
a short story

"When a word game turns deadly, how do you fight it?" Who do you go to for help? Martin must answer these questions before he becomes the next victim of an insidious plot. In a single day Martin's simple life as a business executive is turned upside down, because of his fascination with word games. And he is not the only one in danger.

Available in ebook format on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Short-Story-Harry-Hallman-ebook/dp/B00ENHU20E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1378438749&sr=8-1&keywords=Words+by+Harry+Hallman

Author’s Biography

Hallman a resident of Atlanta and was born and raised in the Kensington section of North Philadelphia. He served in the U.S. Air Force, including two tours in South Vietnam as a photographer. He is married to Duoc Hallman, and has two children, Bill and Nancy, and one grandchild, Ava.

Hallman is a serial entrepreneur who has created several marketing services companies and continues to work as a marketing consultant. In 1995, when the Internet was an infant, he formed a web development company and has been a practicing online media consultant ever since. In 1990 he assisted his son Bill Hallman, a then budding fashion designer, start his business. Bill Hallman operates several stores in Atlanta and designs fashions for both men and women.

Writing Influences

Hallman's father was Harry Hallman, Sr., a champion billiards player who also owned a poolroom called Circle Billiards, located at Allegheny Avenue and Lee Street in Philadelphia. The younger Hallman spent many hours after school at his father’s pool hall. These youthful experiences laid the groundwork for his novel Mercy Row, including the colorful language in the text.

"The combination of my digital marketing experience, my work with my son's business and my own mania about playing word games on my iPad, allowed the idea for Word to pop into my head one day. Although I was working on my sequel to my Mercy Row novel, Mercy Row- Clann, the idea would not leave me alone until I fished this short story: WORD"

Works by Harry Hallman:

Mercy Row
Available in ebook and paperback at Amazon.com
Website: www.meryrow.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mercyrownovel

Mercy Row- Clann- Coming Late 2013

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Tour Spotlight - Mercy Row by Harry Hallman

A young man flunks out of school and becomes a successful businessman and the leader of the Irish Mob in North Philadelphia. He battles rival Italian gangs from South Philadelphia and Chicago. With the help of his partner in crime and the Irish gangsters of North Philly, he triumphs over adversity to become one of the most powerful criminal leaders in 1920s and 30s Philly. At the same time he helps build and eventually leads a large construction concern that is responsible for building the iconic row homes of North Philadelphia. This all takes place during prohibition and the great depression a time in American history that spawned the largest criminal networks in the world.

During the process of creating his criminal and legitimate enterprises he meets and falls in love with a beautiful women and starts the family that will one day succeed him.

Author Bio:

Hallman was born in 1944 and raised in the Kensington section of North Philadelphia. His father was Harry Hallman Sr., a champion billiards player who also owned a poolroom located at Allegany Ave. and Lee Street, called Circle Billiards. In his youth, the younger Hallman spent many hours after school at his father's pool hall. These youthful experiences laid the groundwork for his novel Mercy Row, including the colorful language used in the text.

He served four years in the US Air force including two tours in South Vietnam as a photographer. He is married to Duoc Hallman, who he met in Vietnam, and has two children, Bill and Nancy and one grandchild Ava.

Hallman is a serial entrepreneur who has created several marketing services companies and continues to work as a marketing consultant.

"My favorite possession, from my childhood, is a baby book my sister gave my mother (Florence) when I was born. There's a passage in this book, written by my mother in 1991 when I was 47, that seems to sum up what I have endeavored to be all my life. It reads:

- Bud (my childhood name) grew up to be a great boy and man. Gruff, but a heart as big as could be.-

This is what a man from the Kensington section of Philadelphia is."

Hallman wrote this book, in 2012, when he was 68 years old. This is his first novel.