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April 2, 2014
Flash Boys and K Street
Michael Lewis’s new #1 bestselling book Flash Boysexplains how a real-life cabal of high frequency traders and Wall Street insiders has been legally exploiting the advanced speed of a custom-built fiber optic network to unethically profit on virtually all stock market transactions at the expense of other traders and the general public.
What if, via a combination of insider knowledge and specialized data analysis, someone in Washington, D.C. has been conspiring to do much the same thing? And wh...
March 18, 2014
The K Street Hunting Society by Andy Straka
Coming soon. My latest book will be published March 24!
Please check back for more details.
It’s supposed to be an easy paycheck for private investigators Frank Pavlicek and his daughter Nicole.
Their friend and fellow falconer Jake Toronto has a new client: multi-millionairess Raquel Greensmythe, founder and CEO of Greensmythe Global. Greensmythe keeps a stable of prized falcons at her Northern Virginia estate while her firm hunts sensitive information, using sophisticated data mining technique...
March 4, 2014
March 22 Panel at VA Book
MOSELEY WRITERS TO CRITIQUE FIRST MANUSCRIPT PAGES AT VA BOOK
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, March 2, 2014 – The Charlottesville-based Moseley Writers will presentOff to a Good Start: How to Hook an Editor on the First Pageas part of the Virginia Festival of the Book. This encore panel will be held on Saturday, March 22, 2014, at2 p.m., in Ballroom A at the Omni Charlottesville hotel.
Submit the first page of a manuscript for a speed critique by the Moseley Writers. The first page mu...
December 30, 2013
Scientific proof that reading novels is good for you
I always hoped my books might be good for your health :)
December 1, 2013
Amazon To Deliver Products by Drone
October 8, 2013
Not Science Fiction
Global Hawk
Soon drones may be making lethal decisions on their own.(click text or photo for link to article)
October 1, 2013
July 8, 2013
Pavlicek Returns
They say you should always remember your roots.
I’m excited about my new Dragonflies series and some other projects I have in the works (more on those soon) but my roots in writing will always go back, in large part, to A Witness Above and the Frank Pavlicek series—now five books and counting.
Some have been wondering what’s happened to Frank and Jake and Nicole. Well, they’re back, and I’m thrilled to announce I’ve agreed to a deal with paperback publisher Cedar Creek to publish the next book...
June 29, 2013
Dragonflies for Film/TV
I’m excited to announce the Dragonflies series has been optioned for film/TV by beautiful feet productions!
http://www.beautifulfeetproductions.com/projects/dragonflies/
June 8, 2013
Is it a duck? Is it a drone? No, it’s robobird.
What next?
URGENT NOTE TO LONGWING FALCONERS. 
A new mini-drone created by researchers is already blending with nature so effectively it is fooling even keen-sighted natural predators.
Better keep a sharp eye out next time you fly your falcon after winged prey. You and your bird might be catching more than you bargained for.
(See Below From The Washington Times)
A robotic bird created for the U.S. Army for use as a miniature spy drone is so convincing that it has been attacked by hawks and eagles,...
