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“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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why I Couldn’t Write Perfect Killer Before My Mother Died
Perfect Killer is a substantial departure for me and a book that had to wait for my mother to die before I could write it. My mother, Anabel Bradford Perdue Ellis was one of the last of the “Steel Magnolias,” born on one of her her father’s two cotton plantations in the Mississippi Delta (Saints’ […]
The Original Matrix
Long before The Matrix, long before scientists began to believe that the universe is a giant two-dimensional hologram, there was Simulacron-3: a science-fiction, suspense thriller about a computer scientist who has created a simulated world, only to discover that he is a simulation in some higher power’s computer simulation. I read this book when it […]
