We all have our personal borders: physical, temporal and emotional. Unless we protect them, we run the risk of becoming someone we never intended to be. We all know about our personal space, our comfort zones, our time management. We are not as aware of the effect of losing control of those borders or how […]
Review: The Camp of the Saints
The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail My rating: 5 of 5 stars Prophetic, timely, a difficult book but compelling read. Fittingly finished reading this book today, 14 juillet, Bastille Day, but I wonder if the French revolutionaries of 1789 would be in The Village or on the beach. View all my reviews This […]
The Alpha-Beta Soup of Men
Reading books by men has become a regular activity for me. How better to understand the nature of the king? As a writer of romance, the male of the species takes a lot of my attention. We won’t find many romance writers for whom that is not true. For me, it also helps that I […]
War & Writing
I do not know why we allow it nor why so many men and women offer their lives in sacrifice to it but it seems that war is always with us. What are we fighting for? I am one of the Vietnam War generation. My parents and siblings were products of the two World and […]
Review: Boneyard 11
Boneyard 11 by Linton Robinson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Lin Robinson delivers a hard-hitting, intense and topically explosive story, full of characters who challenge our preconceptions about the criminal worlds of prostitution, drug trafficking, gang warfare, hired assassins and more! The adventure into the southern California and Baja underworld is a trip most […]
Re-Post: Something Wicked This Way Comes & Why Writers Could Be in Great Danger
I am reposting this blog from Kristen Lamb because she has written about issues that are so critical to writers and citizens that I hope all my readers will have an opportunity to read this and think about what she has said. Something Wicked This Way Comes & Why Writers Could Be in Great Danger. My […]
Interview with Richard Turner: Author of Black Dragon
I have the pleasure and honor of introducing Richard Turner, author of Black Dragon, which was launched on May 16, 2014, the sequel to Goliath. According to his biography on Author Central, “Richard Turner proudly served in the Canadian Army for more than thirty years. Starting his career as a private and finishing it off as […]
Upcoming: Author Richard Turner | Black Dragon
Richard Turner’s new thriller, Black Dragon, will be launched tomorrow. I’m pleased to announce that Richard will be my guest in the near future. In the meantime, here is a brief description of the book now available on Amazon: 1945 – with the Soviets preparing to invade Japan’s northern islands, a top-secret military installation rushes to […]
Review: The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton My rating: 5 of 5 stars A book of its time, brilliant exposé of the constraints of social order in the late 19th, early 20th Centuries, New York. Hard to imagine the willful entrapment within these constraints and the acceptance members of that society met the dictates. Wharton’s […]
Cinco de Mayo 4th of July 4th Friday of September
This is one of those opportunities for all of us to celebrate freedom, heritage and independence, especially here in California. As you probably know, today commemorates the day that Mexico gained its freedom from Spain. The Spanish had conquered a huge portion of the western United States as well as Central America over a period […]