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Amsterdam in Bloom – Flowers To Die For
From the tulip mania of the mid-1600s to today’s vast flower exports from The Netherlands to the world, Amsterdam has been a place marked by blooms and beauty amid intrigue and shenanigans. All but one of my books (Perfect Killer) has had some part of it set in Amsterdam. And almost all of Die By […]
Sgt. Bales’ Lawyer Should Ask If He Was A Secret Drug Guinea Pig
Was Staff Sergeant Robert Bales a secret drug guinea pig in the military’s attempts to chemically enhance warfighter efficiency? The proof that such a program to develop a “brave pill” existed can be found in these Government Freedom Of Information (FOIA) documents from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and in the extensive factual […]
Why Did I Have to Wait for My Mama to Die Before I Could Write Perfect Killer?
Perfect Killer was a substantial departure for me and a book that had to wait for my mother to die before I could write it. This book is a departure for two reasons: First of all, I’ve tried to write two books inside a single set of covers: a Southern novel wrapped inside a thriller. […]
Perfect Killer Succeeds As Fiction AND Fact
I set out to write a non-fiction book on why good people do evil things. Perfect Killer— originally published in 2005 by Forge/Tor — has a lot of current significance in the cases of the: Robert Bales Afghan massacre, Trayvon Martin case and Mohamed Merah assassinations in France. ARE THERE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF EVIL? Clearly, […]
We Are All Staff Sgt Robert Bales
We are all Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. My last post here (From Saint To Devil: A Path Carved By Head Injury), examined a real-life, medically researched case of Phineas Gage, who was transformed by a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) from a fine, upstanding man into a profane, violent thug. I ran across Gage’s case as a […]
From Saint To Devil: A Path Carved By Head Injury
Phineas Gage woke up one day as a saint and went to bed a devil. All thanks to a brain injury. The following comes from Chapter 32 of my fact-based, investigative thriller, Perfect Killer which deals, among other things, about how the ability to act morally and “do the right thing” can be altered by […]
California Poppies Popping In Our Backyard!
March 4 The first California poppies of 2012 blooming in the native plant garden in our back yard. 75 degrees and sunny! Wider view
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 […]
