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John Orser: The English Professor Who Changed My Life
Die By Wire is dedicated to John Orser, my freshman English professor at Corning Community College. John was first person ever to tell me I had a future as a writer. This was bizarre. After all, I was a science and math geek. What’s more, I had always been a weird science wonk (International Science […]
Quantum Theories Of Consciousness Get More Likely (And The Idea Of Determinism Less Likely)
In Perfect Killer, I write about the emerging theories of consciousness being rooted in the quantum levels of the brain. One of the issues that the “meat is everything scientists have with this is their belief (belief — not scientific evidence, mind you) that quantum coherence cannot exist at the temperatures where organic cells function. […]
Don’t Buy My Book If …
If you’re going to buy only one book this holiday season, don’t buy any of mine. Buy one from Peter Winkler who makes me ashamed ever to think again that writing us a struggle for me. In fact, you should buy a lot of copies of his book and give them as gifts. From the […]
First Non-Racist Gov. Of Mississippi & My Former Boss Dies
From the New York Times today: “William L. Waller, who as a prosecutor in 1964 twice tried to convict the segregationist Byron De La Beckwith of murdering the civil rights leader Medgar Evers, and who in 1971 forged a coalition of poor whites and newly enfranchised blacks to become governor of Mississippi, died Wednesday in […]
Help Lew Perdue Pick A Cover For His Next Thriller
Die By Wire is ready to roll as soon as I get a cover picked out. But I can’t make up my mind. Can you help me, please? (Pretty please?) With your help, this will be an e-book by the end of next week. So, if you’d like to put in your $0.02-worth, head over […]
Please Tell Me If You Watch Book Trailers
Book publishers borrowing a page from Hollywood: From the LA Times “In a sewer beneath Las Vegas, a lethal vixen named Abigail is locked in a mortal struggle an outlaw cowboy with ties to Greek gods. “The scene, recently filmed over three days on a sound stage in Glendale, wasn’t for a new sci-fi TV […]
The New Cyber Gatekeepers of the Book World – Same Old, Same Old
From tech blog Gigaom comes a techno-view of publishing’s future” Hot on the heels of Amazon signing publishing deals with authors, and thus doing an end-run around their publisher partners, another major e-reader company says it plans to do the same: Kobo is launching its own publishing arm and looking to sign deals with authors […]
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 […]
