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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 […]
Zaibatsu: The Big Money Conspiracy That Brought Down The Global Economy To Make Billions In Profits
The research behind Zaibatsu suggests that the financial collapse was part of a diabolical plan and that it was no accident that the same megabanks, billionaires and financial manipulators who caused the disaster were the first to recover and are now bigger, fatter and greedier than ever before.
A Journalist With A Nose For Lies: Vaccines & Random House
I first learned how dogged Mnookin could be when he wrote his Vanity Fair article about The Da Vinci Code’s plagiarism of my books. He managed to see through Random House’s high-priced flackery and hacked through all the legal chicanery to produce his piece. And now, Mnookin has written The Panic Virus has prompted worldwide […]
Stieg Larsson, Outliers, Black Swan Events and Bestsellers
My good friend Billy Ethridge got me to thinking about the following question: Q: What do Stieg Larsson, and John (A Confederacy of Dunces) Kennedy have in common? A: Nobody gave a damn about their books until after they were dead. Obviously, being dead is no guarantee of writing a bestseller. All the forgotten dead […]
500+ “Moderate” Muslim Scholars Support Blasphemer Assassination
If there were any doubt that insanity reigns among the world Islamic community’s leadership, the article, below, should erase any doubts (along with other things like murder plots over cartoons and death decrees for those who question the inerrancy of every word in the Qur’an.) LAHORE, Pakistan (Associated Press) — More than 500 Muslim scholars […]
