Browsing all posts in July, 2011.

Captured By Google Street Views

Most mornings I start book writing about 5 a.m. until about 7:30. Then I begin work on my web site, Wine Industry Insight to produce the News Fetch wine industry daily summary. Afterwards, I go to my office where I handle wine business things as well as promotion, and the other business aspects of the […]

Breast Implant Bombs: My Plots Stay Ahead Of The Curve…Again

The Obama Administration’s recent warning about terrorists using breast implant bombs reminds me that over my 35 years of writing thrillers, I’ve frequently developed ideas — including explosive breast implants — that once seemed preposterous, outlandish or impossible — but which have either come true or entered the realm of the dangerously likely. My first […]

Are Men Afraid of Wine?

Tom Wark’s blog post today — Great Wine Literature…Or Not — reminded me that I’ve written a bit about wine in my thrillers as well (Good airplane reading, but hardly literature). One of the very cool things about writing novels is the creation of people … offering them a life, background, emotions, hopes, fears and […]