Browsing all posts in February, 2012.
Kindle Publishing Works When It Works AND When It Breaks
I don’t write many fan letters. But I emailed the following to Amazon today: I’d like to congratulate the Kindle system and people for: 1. When it works, and, 2. When it breaks. As an author who’s had a number of bestselling thrillers via traditional publishers, I was hesitant to go the “indie” route. Despite […]
Author Over-Reacts, Part 2 – An Update On Literary Cluelessness
In my previous post (WTF! Amazon Loses Die By Wire Reviews – The Ugly Sequence) I noted the sudden disappearance of five of my 13 Die By Wire reviews. Well after my blog posts and Tweets and emails, I got a large number of return emails, DMs and IMs (some of them from bookstores telling […]
Matching Military MREs & Wine?
In previous chapters, of DIE BY WIRE, Mira Longbow and Jackson Day have focused on the mission and done their best to ignore their past — the good and the bad. In this chapter, they’re on the run. And as with all battles, there come breaks in the action. And everybody has to eat. The […]
God. No God. Love & Liquor.
Presented here, two of my favorite short chapters of Die By Wire that show how two intelligent people — Mira Longbow and Jackson Day — can fall in love over an obscure Dutch liquor and an argument about the existence (or not) of God. Mira, for reasons described previously, has lost her faith in God. […]
Afghanistan Quran Violence: Strategic Incompetence, Criminal Stupidity
Quran burning: enough ignorance and stupidity to go all around. But we should expect more from Obama and his generals than from extremists who believe their religion that can only be maintained through violence and death I wrote extensively about this and how it relates to Die By Wire several weeks ago in a post: […]
Evil, Chocolate, Karamazov, Mira,Amsterdam
An excerpt from Die By Wire, following heroine Mira Longbow. Subconsciously, Mira let her feet follow her heart, tracking faint memory traces of a long-past summer day. Her feet soon carried her into an afternoon-shaded passageway. A score of steps later, she gazed at a ghost from her first visit to Amsterdam: a delightful pastry […]
Jackson Day’s “Listen & Destroy” Mission In The Iranian Boondocks
In an earlier post (Die By Wire’s Wounded Warrior Hero: Sleepless Before The Mission), I wrote about the beginning of Jackson Day’s listen-and-destroy mission in the Iranian boonies. It offered you some background about him and his Iraq firefight history with heroine Mira Longbow. CHAPTER FOUR Northeast of Kuleh Sangi, Iran Day struggled through […]
The Warrior Gets Schooled By His Heart
EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER THIRTY – DIE BY WIRE Amsterdam The pain in Jackson Day’s right thigh eased off toward nothing as he jogged along the Emmastraat. What the hell are you doing? The what came easily: after leaving Mira, he checked out of the Schiphol Sheraton and into the Leideseplain Marriott. The why eluded him. […]
Mira Wrestles With Evil, Wins. Sort Of.
FREE KINDLE OFFER ENDS MIDNIGHT FEB. 20 DIE BY WIRE – CHAPTER ONE – CONTINUED Click here for previous excerpt from Chapter Three. Amsterdam Mira whirled, took the killer to the pavement then wrenched the knife from her hand. The killer shrieked, then bit Mira’s ear. Don’t tear. Don’t! Mira felt blood trickling down the […]
Guardian Sniper Mira Longbow takes on Evil In Amsterdam
DIE BY WIRE – CHAPTER ONE Amsterdam Debate thundered through the black iron gates of the Agnietenkapel and sprawled into the Oudezijds Voorburgwal. Arguments about God, evil and religion shattered the university district’s late-evening calm. Age-old questions with no answers ricocheted among the antique brick facades of lean, tall houses that stood shoulder to-shoulder along […]
