{"id":1505,"date":"2014-02-13T19:25:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T19:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2014-02-13T19:25:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T19:25:42","slug":"a-well-documented-page-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"A Well-Documented Page-Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/LM-sm-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-full wp-image-1478\" title=\"LM-sm-front\" src=\"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/LM-sm-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>Writing one great book is difficult enough. Writing a second that\u2019s as good as the first is a hurdle that few writers manage to cross successfully. But Lyle Blackburn has done just that. The reviewers loved his first book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=63\">The Beast of Boggy Creek<\/a><\/em>, and they are just as enthusiastic about <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=77\">Lizard Man: The True Story of the Bishopville Monster<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptomundo.com\/reviews\/lizard-man-reviewed\/\">Cryptomundo<\/a><\/em>, David Weatherly wrote: \u201cJust as he did with the Legend of Boggy Creek, Blackburn gets to the roots of the Lizard Man reports, interviewing witnesses, going to the locations and generally leaving no stone unturned. It is, in fact, Lyle\u2019s trekking through the Lizard Man\u2019s territory that gives the book its driving energy, creating a page turner that any mystery novelist would be jealous of.\u201d The blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/monstersandmagic.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/11\/book-review-lizard-man-by-lyle-blackburn\/\"><em>Monsters and Magic<\/em> <\/a>calls the book \u201ca stand out,\u201d and writes: \u201c<em>Lizard Man<\/em> is a fascinating read that will leave the reader with not only a thorough knowledge of the topic but also a real taste of the mystery surrounding the case.&#8221; And Lon Strickler of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomsandmonsters.com\/2013\/11\/lyle-blackburn-lizard-man-true-story-of.html\">Phantoms &amp; Monsters<\/a><\/em>\u00a0called it \u201d\u2026an expertly crafted allegory that is informative as well as entertaining.\u201d We are certain that you will love Blackburn&#8217;s latest tour de force as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing one great book is difficult enough. Writing a second that\u2019s as good as the first is a hurdle that few writers manage to cross successfully. But Lyle Blackburn has done just that. The reviewers loved his first book, The Beast of Boggy Creek, and they are just as enthusiastic about Lizard Man: The True [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lizard-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}