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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 […]

Stop The Global Horror Of Child Brides

One of Die By Wire‘s most horrifying and heart-breaking NON-fictional threads is the issue of young girls — some as young as nine or ten years old– who become virtual sex slaves to men often in their 40s to mid 50s. Not only do these girls have their lives ruined by brutal and sustained sexual molestation, […]

PubWeekly “Clarification” On ABA Boycott of Amazon: Anti-Trust Concern Is Reason For Deleting Comments

Yesterday, Publisher’s Weekly issued a clarification that looks designed to get the American Booksellers off the anti-trust hook with their much-discussed (Indie Booksellers Tell Indie Authors To Go To Hell) Amazon book boycott (ABA’s IndieCommerce Site Dropping Amazon Publishing Titles) . It also appears to show why PW deleted numerous comments on the subject. The […]

Something Constructive for ABA To Ponder

This post began as a comment I made here: ABA’s IndieCommerce Site Dropping Amazon Publishing Titles. And that comment ultimately came from this post: Indie Booksellers Tell Indie Authors To Go To Hell ABA should compete rather than whine and obstruct. Competing means having a new idea, one that uses existing expertise and resources in […]