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July 14, 2011
Should I eat my words?
Wouldn't you know it? I was gifted a copy of Jeffery Deaver's Carte Blanche, his new 007 thriller. Put a book in my hands and I start turning pages. In this case, they were real pages, although I understand that the book is also doing well as an eBook. I was curious, I'll admit. What could Mr. Deaver do with Bond that hasn't been done before?
Pre-existing biases and genre prejudices shouldn't count in the reviewer's world even though, in my case, I'm also a writer with my own way of...
July 12, 2011
Fascism for sale!
Some news about three of my favorite duplicitous countries: (1) The Pakistani spy agency has been implicated in the murder of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad. Yes, these are the same guys that arrested the people who helped us send OBL to hell where he belongs. They're also the same guys who knew where he was all the time. (2) It turns out the Afghan police (army? it's hard to tell in a Third World country) were incapable of putting down the attackers at that hotel in Kabul. They...
July 9, 2011
Evil Agenda – Chapter Forty-Six and Notes and Disclaimers
Evil Agenda
Steven M. Moore
Copyright 2010, 2011
This serialized novella is a work of fiction. It is offered for the enjoyment of all readers visiting this website. All resemblance to real persons and events is purely coincidental except for the historical characters expressly mentioned in a fictional setting. Any reproduction or distribution of all or part of this content is strictly prohibited without the consent of the author.
Chapter Forty-Six
Chris and Jay hugged Sara and Kali.
"It's good ...
July 7, 2011
Obscene CEO salaries – now they're recession proof…
Last Sunday Pradnya Joshi wrote an alarming article titled "We Knew They Got Raises. But This?" It was in the Business section of the N.Y. Times. I say "alarming" because, not only were American CEOs not particularly hurt by a recession that has hammered the U.S. middle class, they managed to eke out on average a measly 23% raise over their pay in 2009. The median pay for top executives at 200 companies last year was reported in this article to be $10.8 million.
Why is this obscene? ...
July 5, 2011
The Supreme Court is no longer supreme!
Every President packs the Supreme Court with men and women that he believes will promote his political philosophy. In the past, this hasn't meant much because the SC judges, unfettered from the worries of elections and/or political appointments by their life-time stays on the bench, feel free to go their own way. The most famous case was Earl Warren. Dwight Eisenhower thought he had named a staunch conservative as Chief Justice. Surprise! Surprise! David Souter was a more recent...
July 2, 2011
Evil Agenda – Chapter Forty-Five
Evil Agenda
Steven M. Moore
Copyright, 2010
This novella is a work of fiction. All resemblance to real persons and events is purely coincidental. Any reproduction or distribution of all or part of this content is strictly prohibited without the consent of the author.
Chapter Forty-Five
By Thursday, Charlie had stopped Sirena's nightmares. She hadn't forgotten the incredible story she claimed she received from Rupert, but she was managing the horror of the man's psychosis better. I, for one...
June 30, 2011
Irish Stew #8: News from the Cultural Trenches and Others…
The big news last weekend was the passage of the same-sex marriage law in New York. The LGBT community is justifiably euphoric and is celebrating the bipartisan passage by Albany. This is the most important civil rights issue of the 21st century to date because same-sex marriage really is a question of rights—or rather, not denying rights to a minority of our population. With rights come responsibilities, of course. However, I fear backlashes from voters and the conservative Supreme...
June 28, 2011
Are eBooks killing the publishing industry?
In the news recently there have been big name authors that have left legacy publishing (hardbounds and trade paperbacks in general and the Big Six publishers in particular) and focused their efforts completely on releasing eBooks, thus eliminating the middle people (agents and publishers, mostly, while still using editors and/or proofreaders, as needed). On the other hand, one author made it big with her own eBooks and now has a sweet contract with a legacy publisher. The conclusion: the p...
June 25, 2011
Evil Agenda – Chapter Forty-Four
Evil Agenda
Steven M. Moore
Copyright, 2010
This novella is a work of fiction. All resemblance to real persons and events is purely coincidental. Any reproduction or distribution of all or part of this content is strictly prohibited without the consent of the author.
Chapter Forty-Four
It was natural, I suppose, that Sirena and I started sleeping together. We were beginning to be cramped in BeeGee's bungalow, but I didn't want to expose ourselves to Rupert's wrath. I assumed Herrera knew how ...
June 23, 2011
Tell me it isn't so, Jeffery Deaver…
By now I suspect that many Jeffery Deaver fans know he has gone over to "the dark side." Either he's an Ian Fleming wannabe, is tired of Lincoln Rhyme, has run out of ideas to write about, or was enticed by a multi-million dollar contract, but his new 007 adventure Carte Blanche has been released. Too bad. Even Jeffery Deaver can't haul me kicking and screaming back to 007.
Now, don't get me wrong—writers pick up famous series and do marvelous things with the settings and characters that...
