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May 8, 2017
Tip of the iceberg.
Every day there is some article that catches my attention. This one is worth reading if you’ve read INSIDER X.
June 2, 2015
When a “fiction” book scoops reality
If you’ve read INSIDER X, then this article from The New York Times will likely blow your mind.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-agency/ar-BBkztHa?ocid=ansnewsreu11
December 7, 2014
How Much is Real? How Much is Fiction?
A question I sometimes get asked about my books is how much of this is true… it seems so real… and so scary… is this really happening?
The short answer. Yes. The long answer. Well, do you have about ten or twenty hours to listen? I can guess your answer. Good for you. I don’t either.
That’s why I prefer to write fiction. Particularly when I have something important to impart; something I can’t say in a quick sound bite. The truth is scary. Sometimes I wonder if I should even publish my books. My books. Sound like a boatload when I say it like that. Well, I’ve got three out there… not a boatload. But the ideas in those three books are pretty scary.
They each showcase frightening ‘what if’ scenarios.
My latest one, INSIDER X, may be the most frightening, because what it reveals about social media and the digital age we live in is spot on. We are being fooled. Manipulated. Toyed with. The Internet is so intrusive in our lives that we don’t even realize what is actually happening to us. How we have been ‘pushed’ in various directions, ‘nudged’ in other directions, and ‘tripped’ ever so adroitly and subtly that we don’t even realize it until it’s too late.
When I see or read the news nowadays, I frequently cringe. They are the voice boxes that so often parrot what is being done on the Web today. What’s trending on Twitter can become mainstream news. Facebook posts can become viral and have their content occupy the entire news hour. Instagram, YouTube, (you can insert your favorite websites here), all are in unique positions to influence our thoughts for the day. To “reprogram” us, “hack” our thoughts.
So often we hear about the power of the Web. We have no idea of its true meaning. We might think we do, but I assure you, we don’t.
That sounds insulting, I know, and I apologize. I don’t mean to insult you. The Web has already done that to you today, and to me. We are being played, folks. Insulted daily. Taken for fools.
I wish I could sound bite INSIDER X for you. Put it in a ten-second video clip that you could quickly see. So you could have your eyes opened. See the truth.
But I can’t. And that’s why what is really happening will continue to happen. Unless we open our eyes and question what we really see.
Have I intrigued you? I hope so. I hope you read INSIDER X. I’m posting this blog entry today (12.8.14) because for the next five days I am giving INSIDER X away for free.
Truth should be free.
November 13, 2014
What #42 might say to #43, according to Marks and Lip.
Saw this article where GW said Bill was #BrotherFromAnotherMother (link to article is below).
Thought I’d let Marks sit in for GW and Lip sit in for Bill. This might be how the conversation would go.
Bill (Lip): Ah, the good ‘ol days. Bet I beat ya.
GW (Marks): Example?
Bill (Lip): Like that time I gave that press interview from the oval office, behind my desk. Wasn’t wearing pants.
GW (Marks): Been there. Did that.
Bill (Lip): I didn’t have underwear on either.
GW (Marks): Leave a dirt track?
Bill (Lip): Gross.
GW (Marks): Ever feel under the desk?
Bill (Lip): Why?
GW (Marks): Just wondering. (fingers his nose)
Bill (Lip): You didn’t?
GW (Marks): Did.
Bill (Lip): Do you think they’re still there?
GW (Marks): Let’s call up Bamie and see.
Bill (Lip): No, let’s prank call him!
GW (Marks): Good idea! You do it.
Bill (Lip): (picks up phone) Hi, this is Number 42 calling for Bamie.
GW (Marks): You suck.
Bill (Lip): Not there? Can you leave him a message?
GW (Marks): Give me the phone!!
Bill (Lip): (holding GW/Marks off) Tell him that I left boogers under his desk. Ha ha! (hangs up)
GW (Marks): You did not!
Bill (Lip): Did.
GW (Marks): This isn’t fun anymore. You are no longer my brother from another mother.
Bill (Lip): Take that back!
GW (Marks): No!
Bill (Lip): Yes!
GW (Marks): Okay I’ll take all your money. Give it to me.
Bill (Lip): What?
GW (Marks): You said, yes. I’ll take it.
Bill (Lip): Eat me.
GW (Marks): I only eat meat.
Bill (Lip): What’s that supposed to mean?
GW (Marks): You got no weenie! Ha ha. Gotcha!
Bill (Lip): Child.
GW (Marks): Baby.
Bill (Lip): Zygote.
GW (Marks): What does candy have to do with this?
Bill (Lip): Nougat?
GW (Marks): What?
**
Lip: We should have been actors.
Marks: Yeah, we were good.
November 7, 2014
When your characters try and call the shots.
Okay, so I have no news to share today. I thought I’d let Marks and Lip take the conn.
Lip: The conn? What is this, Star Trek?
Marks: I wouldn’t antagonize him.
Lip: Why not?
Marks: Germany. France.
Lip: So?
Marks: We’re not being published there.
Lip: So what does that have to do with anything?
Johnny Two-cakes: I think you fail to see how this works.
Lip: Who let you in here?
Marks: He was already here.
Lip: He was? I didn’t see him.
Marks: We need a good PR campaign. Two-cakes?
Johnny Two-cakes: Thank you, Marks. Here it is. (Johnny Two-Cakes sets a sheaf of papers on the table)
Lip: What is this?
Marks: It’s an outline for our next project. Johnny Two-Cakes wrote it.
Lip: You’re going to spoon-feed the big dummy something?
Marks: You did not do that.
Lip: What?! F**k him.
(Johnny Two-cakes double blinks)
Marks: We’re done here.
Lip: What is he going to do—erase us? Get real. He needs us.
James: Hey guys, what’s happening?
Lip: Oh, look who it is—Mr. Fancy Pants.
Marks: What do you say, Kolinsky?
James: Look, I appreciate you guys asking me to come here—
Lip: I did not ask you.
Marks: Ignore him.
James: Ah… sure. (James leans over) Is he okay?
Marks: He’s fine. He’s just constipated.
James: Really? He doesn’t look constipated.
Lip: Do you speak German?
James: Me?
Lip: Who do you think I’m talking to?!
James: (whisper) He’s angry.
Marks: He’s just constipated.
James: I think I’m going to leave.
(Marks glares at Lip)
Johnny Two-cakes: That didn’t go so well.
(Lip flips through the papers on the table)
Lip: James… James… why is he in this book? Wait a second?! This is the title? ‘James and His Friends’!
**
Sorry guys, inside humor. For those that have read my three books it might make sense. A couple footnotes: THE BACK DOOR MAN (where James Kolinsky was the hero) is being translated into French, and was just released in German. Lip isn’t happy, as he’s getting no love. PROPORTIONATE REPONSE and INSIDER X (both books with Marks and Lip as the heroes) are only available in English. Yes, I know, a travesty.
October 30, 2014
This doesn’t happen every week.
Okay… first blog post. Lot of pressure here. Not sure what to say.
I’m just going to keep this short.
Three years ago I self-published THE BACK DOOR MAN. This week the German translation was released on Amazon’s German website.
Below is the link:
Have to say it’s pretty cool. Three years ago the concept that a book I wrote would be translated into other languages was just a dream.
