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September 11, 2020
9/11: When Cops Were Heroes
Nineteen years ago today, my brother called me in the early morning hours on the west coast and told me to turn the on the TV. He said a plane had flown into one of the twin towers. Having grown up in the city, and worked from time to time in the towers with my […]
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September 8, 2020
Red Death (Karen Vail #8)
Norwood Press, 2020 (hardcover) Open Road (trade paperback) Open Road (eBook) “A unique and imaginative plot filled with witty dialogue and page-turning intrigue.” —Catherine Coulter, New York Times Bestselling Author Serial killers aren’t born overnight. Although their development is cultivated over a period of years, taking their first victim triggers a recurring cycle of death, depravity, […]
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September 4, 2020
A Legend Passes
I met Tom Seaver in 1969. I was just a kid in New York City and he was doing a promotional appearance at a furniture store in Manhattan. My dad had a business in the city and we had just come from a job, so we arrived late. Everyone had left. There were only two […]
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June 4, 2020
Black and white, black and blue
I have been digesting the events of the past week with a heavy heart, deep sadness, and tremendous disappointment. Heavy heart for the family of George Floyd. Deep sadness for our country—we are supposed to lead the world in civil rights, in the rule of law, in democratic values, in free speech. Tremendous disappointment—in local […]
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October 10, 2019
The Brilliant Minds at PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) came up with a brilliant idea: rather than causing or contributing to damaging fires when the weather turns dry and windy, they will shut off power to over 800,000 of its customers.
Q: How smart was this? Did they give sufficient notice?
A: Not very, and very little.
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September 7, 2019
Have you heard? Authors are making (a lot) less money. Here’s what it really means.
Author income has dropped to a dramatic low, a development that has forced writers, particularly those of fiction, to change the way they work--and live.
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March 16, 2019
Governor Newsom, why should I bother voting?
California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced plans to sign an executive order suspending the death penalty. While there hasn’t been an execution in the state since 2006, there are over 700 inmates on death row. How serious is the governor about this? He ordered that the equipment used for executions be dismantled—and photographs emerged today […]
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March 10, 2019
Hollywood vs. The Author
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March 8, 2019
Dark Side of the Moon Reading Group Guide
Following are topics designed to provide a stimulating discussion for Dark Side of the Moon. Be sure to finish the novel before reading these questions because they contain spoilers!
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March 7, 2019
Current Trends in Publishing: Where do authors go from here?
If there’s one article you read about publishing this year, this should be it ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN SUSPENSE MAGAZINE (November/December 2018 issue) By Alan Jacobson and Peter Hildick-Smith USA Today bestselling author Alan Jacobson has been writing novels professionally for 25 years, and during that quarter century he’s seen a tectonic shift—or rather, multiple shifts—in […]
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