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Book Bastards: Loveable Books, Loathable Writers
“Tolstoy I’m sure was an incredible jackass, but I still love him. I still love Stevens, I still love Pound. If we didn’t read people who were bastards, we’d never read anything. Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards. We bastards love people who love our books, regardless. Read the rest of […]
Writers: Never give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up … EVER!
Debut novel rejected 47 times makes Booker Prize longlist “AN author whose book was rejected 47 times before it was finally published is among three Irish writers to make the longlist of the world’s most important literary prize, the Man Booker Prize. “Donal Ryan’s debut novel, ‘The Spinning Heart’, completed more than two years ago, […]
Amazonians Won’t Let Amazon Own The Amazon
Amazon can’t have a monopoly on the Amazon like they almost do with books. According to The Register: “Web supermarket Amazon’s bid to create new top-level domain name .amazon has hit a dead end…Committee members of internet overlord ICANN – which oversees the world’s DNS and other such technical stuff – rejected the e-tailer’s application […]
Book Machines Might Save Book Stores
Books A Million is the first chain to install on-demand physical book machines. These will be Espresso Book Machines from On Demand Books BAM customers have access to seven million titles, many from major publishers including Random House, W.W. Norton, and Simon & Schuster. Customers can also print self-published works or any user-generated content pick […]
Every New Day, A New Room … But Only Once
“No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they’re not the same person.” — Heraclitus (Gender-neutral edits added) Characters in my thrillers have relied on that quote and the meaning behind it more than once. But the true meaning came home for me last night while falling […]
Evolve! Survive! Read!
Enjoying thrillers and romances, watching Brad Pitt slay zombies and Superman falling for Lois Lane are all cultural aspects of human evolution that are rooted in Darwinian survival of the species, according to a new study from Concordia University: Cultural products have evolutionary roots. Marketing professor Gad Saad says evolution has hard-wired humans to be […]
The International Science People Found Me After 47 Years
Back in 1966, I won several prizes for my solar flux rocket engine and proton accelerator at the International Science Fair in Dallas. That was 46 years ago. Fast forward to late May and Intel has assumed the mantel of looking around the globe for other budding scientists (see letter below). And somehow, in some […]
Prism Spying More About Secrecy Than Data
The real scandal in the NSA Prism revelations is not so much about what data is kept or the merits of how that may keep us safe. The real issue is the fact that the whole program was kept so secret. The US was founded on the principle that those who govern do so ONLY […]
Memorial Day Tribute For An American Hero Who Shaped My Life
AIR FORCE LT.COL A. L. “BUDDY” BARNER. (WGFP) ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY MEMORIAL SERVICE (click for images) Five years ago tomorrow, we buried an American hero who shaped my life. Lt. Col. A.L. “Buddy” Barner (World’s Greatest Fighter Pilot-Click for more) was a fighter pilot in Korea and Vietnam, a test pilot between wars who […]
The Spy Who Came In To The Gold
Joe Montana could sit down and tell me, show me everything he knows. And I’d never be a Montana-league quarterback. I’m a lot better writer than I am a quarterback, and I’ve studied everything about John leCarre’, read everything, analyzed, examined and studied myself to death. And, while my writing may have benefited from that, […]
