R.P. Finch's Blog

PopMatters Essay

Continuing...I have also been asked to write an essay about what it is like to live in California during fire season. You can find it here: https://www.popmatters.com/fire-in-th...

New Essay

Hello Readers! I am now on the staff of PopMatters.com and have published several reviews of novels there. If you wish to see them, please Google 'R. P. Finch,PopMatters'

Skin in the Game PBS Intervew

Here is a link to my PBS interview. (The audio was posted earlier, below). In a strange turn of events, Tito Venga urged me to post the video too...maybe because he's mentioned in it? Who can say...
http://vimeo.com/108368254

Worldwide Radio Interview

I had the opportunity last week to have an extended interview on the worldwide ArtistFirst Radio Network (I made sure that Tito Venga was out of earshot -- who knows what mayhem might have ensued) and here is the audio link:

http://www.artistfirst2.com/Authors-F...
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The San Francisco Book Review Guest Column

The second of the two Guest Columns I mentioned earlier has just been published -- in The San Francisco Book Review. It's about the 'glamorous' life of the writer and here's the link:
http://sanfranciscobookreview.com/201...

Skin in the Game's Cautionary Tale

There is a news story today, linked below, about how the NSA is developing the Quantum Computer for its ability to hack the internet's security system; Tito is not in a good mood this morning, to say the least -- it seems that the NSA might have beat him to the punch!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01...

Guest Column in The Portland Book Review

One of the guest columns I mentioned below has now been published. Here is a link to the column in The Portland Book Review -- it is on the 'Writers on Writing' page, which deals with comments by writers on the craft of writing.

http://portlandbookreview.com/confess...
Portland Book Review | Confessions of a Killer (with a Pyramid Scheme)
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Confessions of a Killer (with a Pyramid Scheme) Posted on December 2, 2013 by Site Owner Posted in Writers on Writing Confessions of a Killer (with a Pyramid Scheme)R. P. Finch Existentialists speak of being responsible for creating our own meaning and reality, moment by moment, in the face of the c...

Radio Review of 'Skin in the Game'

I found Tito red-faced, listening to the audio of the review of 'Skin in the Game' on Alabama Public Radio (link below) -- I thought that he was embarrassed to have been mentioned but it turned out he was embarrassed that I caught him listening to Public Radio. An odd one, that Tito Venga...

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Skin in the Game -- Guest Columns

I have been invited to write guest columns for The San Francisco Book Review, The Sacramento Book Review and The Portland Book Review. Don't know when they will be out, but Tito's nose is certainly out of joint over this. But then again, Tito's nose is always out of joint.

Skin in the game -- Radio Interviews

Radio interviews the week of November 18 -- Tuesday at 7:40 WEOL Cleveland and 10:00 WTKS Savannah; Thursday at 8:10 WCZX Knoxville. Getting used to the Morning Ride!