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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
