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Cole Alpaugh
Biography
Cole Alpaugh began his newspaper career in the early ’80s at a daily paper on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where he covered everything from bake sales to KKK meetings. He moved on to a paper in Massachusetts, specializing in feature essays. His stories on a Hispanic youth gang and the life of a Golden Gloves boxer won national awards. At his most recent newspaper job, a large daily in Central New Jersey, he was given the freedom to pursue more “true life” essays, including award-winning pieces on a traveling rodeo and an in-depth story on an emergency room doctor. The doctor’s story ended when the physician brought back to life an elderly woman who’d once been his children’s babysitter. The essay was nominated by Gannett News Service for a 1991 Pulitzer Prize. Cole also did work for two Manhattan-based news agencies, covering conflicts in Haiti, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and guerrilla raids conducted out of the refugee camps along the Thai/Cambodia boarder. His work has appeared in dozens of magazines, as well as most newspapers in America. Cole’s first novel, The Bear in a Muddy Tutu, was published by Camel Press, an imprint of Coffeetown Press, in 2011. Coming Soon from Coffeetown: Cole’s third novel, The Spy’s Little Zonbi. Cole is currently a freelance photographer and writer living in Northeast Pennsylvania, where he also coaches his daughter’s soccer team. You can find him online at www.colealpaugh.com.
Where to find Cole Alpaugh online
Website: http://www.colealpaugh.com/
Where to buy in print
Books
The Spy's Little Zonbi
by Cole Alpaugh
Price:
$6.95 USD.
Words: 75,460.
Language:
English.
Published: October 22, 2013 by
Coffeetown Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
Chase Allen never intended to be a killer, even for the good guys, but after he is recruited as a secret agent, terminating dictators and jihadists is all in a day’s work. He marries a dark beauty and they have a child, his “Little Zonbi,” who means everything to him. Now that his priorities have shifted, Chase strives for normalcy. But a spy doesn’t escape his past so easily.
The Turtle-Girl from East Pukapuka
by Cole Alpaugh
Price:
$6.95 USD.
Words: 72,420.
Language:
English.
Published: June 21, 2012 by
Coffeetown Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Sea adventures, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
The fates of a little girl, a Loggerhead Sea Turtle, an injured downhill skier, a salvage boat owner, a blond policewoman, a pair of pirates, a shark god and a cannibal collide on the tsunami-ravaged island of East Pukapuka.