Remembering Derek Alger
by Richard Luck
Issue No. 211 ~ December, 2014
To be honest, I don’t remember exactly how I first met Derek.
To be honest, I don’t remember exactly how I first met Derek.
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Winning the Washington Prize for Fiction for your first novel shows incredible talent, of which, admittedly, author Victoria Alexander possesses a lion?s share. She is a seemingly brash and witty woman, not entirely unlike Smoking Hopes? heroine, Charlie Dean, who worked part-time as a stripper …