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Rob & Dave Visit Garden City Park Elementary with Alphabert!

Rob and Dave kicked off their author school tour (okay, it’s just one school so far) with Mrs. Cipolla’s 2nd grade class at Garden City Park Elementary, sharing their first children’s book collaboration, Alphabert! An A-B-C Adventure!  The kids loved listening to Rob read the story and show them the …

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Don’t Touch the Blue Stuff! (Where the Hell is Tesla? Book 2) Now Available!

The sequel to Where the Hell is Tesla? is HERE!
SOMETHING CALLED THE “BLUE JUICE” IS COMING. FOR ALL OF US. Luckily, me (Chip Collins), Pete, Nikola Tesla, Bobo, and FBI Agent Gina Phillips are here to kick its ass, and send it back to last Tuesday. Maybe. Or maybe we’ll fail, and everyone in the multiverse is doomed. (Seriously, you might want to get that underground bunker ready.) Either way, I’ve got to get home to Julie and find out… woah, I’m not about to tell you that right here in the book description! TMI.

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Get a Sneak Listen to the audiobook for Don’t Touch the Blue Stuff!

This month, I’ve got something SUPER SPECIAL for you at the Listen To The Signal Podcast… the first three chapters of the audiobook for my brand new novel, Don’t Touch the Blue Stuff! It’s the sequel to the Audible bestselling Where the Hell is Tesla?, and is just as absurd/heartwarming/ridiculous as the first book. But there’s much more that’s new, and it’s not all rainbows and unicorns…

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Alphabert! An A-B-C Bedtime Adventure… NOW AVAILABLE!

[button style=’orange’ url=’https://www.amazon.com/Alphabert-B-C-Bedtime-Adventure-Dircks-ebook/dp/B01MZWP7EV’ target=’_blank’ icon=’entypo-mobile’]Buy the Ebook • FREE THIS WEEK![/button]  [button style=’orange’ url=’https://www.amazon.com/Alphabert-B-C-Bedtime-Adventure-Dircks/dp/0692813705′ target=’_blank’ icon=’entypo-book’]Buy the Paperback • $9.99[/button]  [button style=’orange’ url=’https://www.amazon.com/Alphabert-B-C-Bedtime-Adventure-Dircks/dp/0692813691′ target=’_blank’ icon=’entypo-book’]Buy the Hardcover  • $24.99[/button] Me and my brother Dave have teamed up again – this time with our very first children’s book! Alphabert! An A-B-C Bedtime Adventure is the story of Albert, …

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Amazon Kindle Countdown Deal: The Wrong Unit at 99¢

[button style=’red’ url=’https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HWQ1ONG’ target=’_blank’ icon=’entypo-mobile’]Get the Ebook for Only 99¢![/button] This week only, get Rob Dircks’ new sci-fi novel, The Wrong Unit, for just 99¢. It’s a future sci-fi odyssey of a “unit” with a problem: how to deliver his package, out in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to …

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The Wrong Unit: A Novel – Now Available!

[button style=’red’ url=’https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HWQ1ONG’ target=’_blank’ icon=’entypo-mobile’]Shop the Ebook[/button] [button style=’red’ url=’https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Unit-Novel-Rob-Dircks/dp/0692720995′ target=’_blank’ icon=’entypo-book’]Shop the Paperback[/button] [button style=’red’ url=’https://www.amazon.com/The-Wrong-Unit-A-Novel/dp/B01IFBMYOK’ target=’_blank’ icon=’entypo-mic’]Shop the Audiobook[/button] About the Book I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE HUMANS ARE SO CRANKY ABOUT. Their enclosures are large, they ingest over a thousand calories per day, and they’re allowed to …

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The Ways of Grace – #1 Inspirational Poetry Book on Amazon!

Goldfinch Publishing is a boutique publishing house created to bridge the gap between traditional and independent publishing. Like a traditional publisher, we work with hand-selected authors to offer professional curation with NO FEES (Goldfinch SELECT). To aid independent authors needing individual solutions, we offer paid services (Goldfinch A LA CARTE). …

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Award-winning Author Interviews Rob for Book Launch

Voted one of the Best Long Island Authors for 2013 and 2014, Dina Santorelli took some time from her insane schedule to interview Rob about his new book, Where the Hell is Tesla? Debut Author Q&A: Meet Rob Dircks A funny thing happened on my way to an author event at …

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Where the Hell is Tesla? Now Available!

“One of the funniest books I’ve ever read! I loved it. Don’t miss this one!”- Patricia Mick, April 2015 “I loved this book! Hysterical, interesting, cool, just awesome. I flew through it in a few days and laughed the whole way through. I love sci-fi, I love humor and this …

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Where the Hell is Tesla? Interview on FanboyPlanet.com

Where The Hell Is Tesla? And Why Does Rob Dircks Ask? — by Daniel DeFabio Rob Dircks’ novel Where the Hell is Tesla? is a fast, fun and funny read. He creates a quantum playground that accomodates almost every fanboy fantasy. Its style has bits of Douglas Adams and Jonathan Scalzi’s Redshirts. …

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