My first novel, Alter Road, was just over 88,000 words. My second and most recent novel, Friendship Games, is about 78,000 words. Last night I reached the 20,000 word mark of my third and follow-up novel, Daddy Broke the World (as it is currently titled). With those two as guides, then I am 1/4th of the way there....
In just three months, the Russo-Ukrainian War will enter its fourth year. Apart from an incursion into Russia by Ukrainian troops earlier this month – and they are still there – there has been little progress by either Russia or Ukraine for more than a year. Russia still slowly chips away, but we are talking about taking land measured in...
JD Vance's upbringing by a "hillbilly" mom and grandparents from Kentucky was an interesting read. His ethnic background as a Scots Irish and the history and geography of the Scots Irish that Vance lays out is historically accurate and I was pleasantly surprised that he was aware of it. But what Vance attributes to the status of poor white...
In June 2024, after European Parliament election results showed French President Emmanuel Macron's party with 15% of the vote and far-right leader Marine Le Pen's with 32%, Macron called for snap elections in a surprise move in an effort to thwart the far right's ascendancy in France.
I remember in 2016 that Hillary Clinton was expected to win in more or less a landslide against Donald Trump, at least by most of the national media. I wasn't entirely convinced; the energy and excitement on the ground seemed to be with Donald Trump. I saw far more yard signs, bumper stickers, and flags for Trump than for Hillary....
Full disclosure: I loved the Red Dawn films, both the original 1983 film starring Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, and C. Thomas Howell, and the 2012 reboot with Chris Hemsworth, despite their glaring weaknesses. (North Korea invades Spokane, Washington, in the reboot? I know that United Artists didn't want to alienate the Chinese market but, come...
Note: This is a blog post that I started on October 8, 2023, and have only recently been able to re-visit it.
Friendship Games has won FIRST PLACE in the High Stakes Global Thriller of the Year category by the editors of Chanticleer Reviews.
Friendship Games made the cut! Again. It is now a Finalist for Chanticleer Reviews' Book Award for Global Thrillers.
Friendship Games made the cut! It is a Finalist for Chanticleer Reviews' Clue Book Award for Suspense/Thrillers.