Browsing all posts in October, 2011.

Used Book Stores: The Only Survivors Of The E-Book Wars?

I’ve got a house full of books. I love books, the feel of them, the smell of them as they age. They are like old friends, to be held and read again and again. As a writer, most of my books are not there for pure enjoyment, but as research. I know them. I know […]

Pulse Weapons: The Economist Catches Up With My Thriller, Slatewiper

According to The Economist, BULLETS and bombs are so 20th-century. The wars of the 21st will be dominated by ray guns. That, at least, is the vision of a band of military technologists who are building weapons that work by zapping the enemy’s electronics, rather than blowing him to bits. The result could be conflict […]

The Help – Wonderful, Evocative, Authentic

The Help rang true for me as an author (Perfect Killer) and as the scion of a Mississippi Delta cotton plantation family, born in Greenwood, raised in Jackson during this book’s time period and kicked out of Ole Miss in 1967 for leading a civil rights march. If Katheryn Stockett had added every possible thing […]

Nobel Prize Delusions About Peace, Violence & Revolutions

How wrong can a Nobel Peace Prize winner be? Very wrong. This wrong: Peaceful revolution ‘only solution’ . You could believe that only by ignoring all of history and current events including those in her own country. More realistically, one could say that peaceful revolution is preferable. But far less likely. PEACEFUL REVOLUTION = MOSTLY […]