Share Who Does Congress Really Work For? After the elections in November I’ll back off the politics, but for now I can’t resist. Here’s an article from Politico Magazine back in May. “The 401 (k) industry owns Congress.” It still makes my ears smoke. Read it. You need to know what this very savvy investigative…
Share All Five of the Stuart Haydon Series Now Available in eBook Format Images above are the eBook covers for the five Stuart Haydon novels. To buy or read reviews, opening chapters, and my author’s comments about each novel just click on the NOVELS section to the left and you’ll find the original hardcover images…
Share Fate Can Do This to Any of Us …You Never Know After being absent from the publishing business for quite a few years, I’ve recently published a new, Fate Surprised Her. It is available only as an eBook for now. Although it’s been available on my website for a couple of months, I’ve neglected…
ShareThe Power of Authoritarianism … Two Sides of the Same Coin Here are two quotations I’ve used before a few years ago. But they are exceptionally important at the moment in our history. Not only in this country, but globally. “. . . in obedience to figures they see as ‘authoritative,’ people will do ‘to…
Share The Responsibilities That Come With Our Knowledge Detail from The Crucifixion of St. Peter, by Michelangelo, from the cover of Forbidden Knowledge Twenty-eight years ago, in October 1996, I bought a book so full of knowledge and food for thought that since then I have returned to it again and again and keep it…
ShareThe Rules of Grammar… Or Not “i” before “e” except after “c” . . . EXCEPT . . . . . . when your foreign neighbor Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters. Weird. Contact PrevPreviousWhile We’re All Focused on the Middle East NextThe Responsibilities That Come With Our KnowledgeNext Recent posts…
ShareWhile We’re All Focused on the Middle East The following snippets are from Back to the Cold War: Russia uses Mexico as a Hub for Spying on the U.S. in today’s NBC News. “Russia has added dozens of personnel to its embassy staff in Mexico City in the past few years, even though Moscow has…
Share How the Authors Guild Is Fighting Censorship in Texas I’ve been an Authors Guild member for 33 years. The following is a communication from todays Guild mailing. The Authors Guild and a coalition of bookstores, booksellers, authors, and publishers filed a lawsuit on July 25, 2023, challenging Texas House Bill 900, the ironically-titled “Reader…
Share Aspects of Free Speech Many books have been written — and will continue to be written — about the complexities of free speech. In the US, the issue was never simple, even from the beginning as the nation’s constitution was being written. But as time has passed through decades and centuries, as global cultures…
Share A New Beginning For those who don’t write fiction — or any kind of professional writing — the work itself hardly seems to be “work” at all. One sits and thinks, then writes some ideas. How hard could it be?Of course, as a novelist I would beg to differ with that viewpoint. How hard…