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How Lena Gray & Al Thomas Saved My Life
I am reading The Help right now which is set in Jackson Mississippi where I grew up. Much of the film was shot there and in parts of the Mississippi Delta, and especially Greenwood Mississippi where I was born. Every page in The Help — indeed almost every paragraph — evokes a memory, many of which […]
Judge Sez Go Ahead, Mess With Texas
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) got slapped down for trying to trademark “Don’t Mess With Texas” — a phrase that has been in common usage for as long as the Lone Star Republic has existed. In this case, the TxDOT — who get the idiot of the month, trademark troll award — tried to […]
World’s Highest-Paid Authors (Damn! Missed The List Again!)
Forbes Magazine has listed the world’s highest paid authors. I can’t BELIEVE it, but I missed the list AGAIN! (What? What was that? … My wife just reminded me that our checking account balance is way closer to the decimal point than these folks’s.) First, Forbes gives us the bad news that most authors are […]
Perfect Killer: Not An Easy Read
Many of the posts on Facebook’s Murrah-Callaway Class of 1967 have commented on the “sad” state of many things in Mississippi. Back in 2001-2004 I returned frequently and spent months — mostly in the Delta where I was born and in Jackson — doing research for Perfect Killer. I was both encouraged by astonishing […]
Captured By Google Street Views
Most mornings I start book writing about 5 a.m. until about 7:30. Then I begin work on my web site, Wine Industry Insight to produce the News Fetch wine industry daily summary. Afterwards, I go to my office where I handle wine business things as well as promotion, and the other business aspects of the […]
Breast Implant Bombs: My Plots Stay Ahead Of The Curve…Again
The Obama Administration’s recent warning about terrorists using breast implant bombs reminds me that over my 35 years of writing thrillers, I’ve frequently developed ideas — including explosive breast implants — that once seemed preposterous, outlandish or impossible — but which have either come true or entered the realm of the dangerously likely. My first […]
Are Men Afraid of Wine?
Tom Wark’s blog post today — Great Wine Literature…Or Not — reminded me that I’ve written a bit about wine in my thrillers as well (Good airplane reading, but hardly literature). One of the very cool things about writing novels is the creation of people … offering them a life, background, emotions, hopes, fears and […]
Wine Snobs Suck!
Snobs suck! This 1997 episode from San Francisco’s Bay TV features wine guy Lewis Perdue (60 pounds heavier than he is now) who believes that wine snobs are a lot worse than the anti-Christ. You don’t have to study wine to like it. Hell, you don’t have to study Snapple to know what flavor you […]
Nada, Nada, Nada: Thoughts on Hemingway & Existential Flames In The Head
I’ve just reduced my latest manuscript from 144,000 words to 83,000. And lost nothing at all but fat (the manuscript, not me ….wish editing/writing could be more aerobic). The editing, and a Facebook conversation with friend Mark York reminded me of Ernest Hemingway, one of the all-time masters of tight, powerful writing. He wrote terse […]
Forget Nukes: Coal-Fired Power Plants Can Emit 4X The Radioactivity of Three-Mile Island
Forget about being hysterical about Fukushima. The average coal-fired power plant can continually emit four times the radiation as Three Mile Island. How’s that possible? Because low-sulfur coal use in coal-fired plants contains thorium: a radioactive element that is released when the coal is burned. What’s more, the particles containing the thorium are among those […]
