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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 […]

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 […]

Expert Says Perfect Killer Exposes A Secret Military Program With Horrible Consequences

This is the Afterword to my book, Perfect Killer. Dr. Gabriel thinks Perfect Killer exposes an important, but very secretive, U.S. military program that could have horrible consequences … in fact, making the average soldier into a perfect killer who becomes the worst weapon of mass destruction. Government documents on this program can be accessed […]

Michael Hart – The Father of E-Books, R.I.P.

A belated send-off for Michael Hart who created and sent the world’s first e-book, way back in the mainframe computing days of 1971 and went on to found Project Gutenberg. He died September 6 at the relatively young age of 64. A full obituary is here in the Economist.

“Governments do not rule the world Goldman Sachs does” – Trader Echoes Zaibatsu Thriller

Trader Alessio Rastani’s wildly popular BBC interview on YouTube shocks the world and echoes the central points in two of my financial thrillers, Zaibatsu which was the sequel of The Delphi Betrayal (The really good parts of this video begin about 38 seconds in) Those points are: That corporations control most of the world’s cash, […]

Kudzu Madness & A Drive Up Hwy 49 To The Delta – The Uncut Chapter

The following is the complete chapter I wrote for Perfect Killer. Most of this was cut by the publisher who felt that nobody really cared about “all that Southern stuff.” In fairness, the publisher wanted a straight-forward thriller without “all that Southern stuff” as well as the ethics, science and faith around free will, good […]

More Than “The Help”: Ed Kingston, Negro — Landowner and his 42 tenants

The phenomenal writing in The Help along with its powerful story has had me going back through the research I did for Perfect Killer and digging even farther into my family history than I did for that book. Several days ago, I ran across this undated photo among a number of papers, letters and other […]