A Writer’s Blog

  • Dealing with Internet Bullies

    No one wins an argument with an Internet bully suffering from disinhibition and anyone may be a victim of disinhibition without knowing it. Read more

  • East Bay Area Author Event, March 2nd, 2013

    Fifteen published authors will be talking throughout the day about the subject of their books, about their works, and about the process of writing and getting published. Read more

  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Sarah McCoy wrote a post for the Huffington Book Blog about “Men of War are Conflicted Characters“. After I read her post, I wanted to leave a comment but couldn’t because that section was closed, so I’m writing it here. You may want to read McCoy’s post. It’s… Read more

  • Death by Competitive Capitalism

    We have been through this sort of thing before but back then it was the independent bookstore being pushed out by the big chains like Barnes & Noble. Read more

  • Does MADE in the U.S.A. mean made by an American-born citizen?

    Over a five-year period 2007 to 2011, almost 2,000 illegal immigrants died attempting to cross America’s southwest deserts and almost three million were caught and sent back home. Read more

  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: In 1772, Lord Mansfield’s judgment in the Somersett’s Case emancipated a slave in England, and that helped launch the movement that would abolish slavery in the British Empire. If the thirteen American colonies had stayed in the Empire, there would have been no Civil War to end slavery, because slavery in… Read more