Next Job On the List: Find Rival
Because I don't really know either person, though I do follow Ellis on Twitter, I can't speak to the reasons why Bret Easton Ellis bags on David Foster Wallace. (Based…
Power Inc.
David Rothkopf's Power Inc. is an outstanding primer on the evolution of the relationship between states and corporations. Starting in 13th century Sweden with the foundation of a state mining…
Finding Comfort in Famous Authors’ Bad Reviews
For your early afternoon amusement...negative reviews of Joseph Conrad. A sample: An Outcast of the Islands is a disagreeable story of reckless men, disgusting women, and repulsive scenes. As a study of character,…
Q&A Group for Dismantle the Sun Readers
Now that Dismantle the Sun's been published, there is a serious danger that someone might actually read it. So if you, as that someone, read the book and afterwards want to…
This Morning’s Sobering Thought
As I think I mentioned earlier, traditional publishers released slightly over 300,000 books last year. It's a bit sobering to think of Dismantle the Sun, which I sweated over for nearly…
Wrapping Up the Night
Didn't catch too much of the Democratic National Convention tonight, but I saw Michelle Obama deliver one hell of a speech. I spent six years in Utah. In high school, I…
Here Be Pirates II: Electric Boogaloo
RJ Ellory, thriller writer, pulls an Orlando Figes on Amazon.
Upcoming Projects
Now that Dismantle the Sun is out and available for purchase, you might think of me as The Great Author, perched on a throne in a Brobdingnagian abode on an Olympian slope,…
Poison Pen Letters
Through a former classmate, I came upon Michelle Hoover's take on the controversy surrounding William Giraldi's nasty review of Alix Ohlin's books, which fits into a larger conversation about whether…
Dismantle the Sun, My Debut Novel, is Out
It took ten years, ten months and an odd number of days from inception of the project to this point, but Booktrope Press has released my debut novel, Dismantle the Sun…