When it comes to computer crime, cyberterrorism, and intellectual property theft, Luke Bencie is my mentor and go-to guy. He taught me everything I know about criminal intent in business and government—those secret crimes the public often doesn’t hear about, like we do with mass shootings, street crimes and other murder(s) du jour. A relatively […]
OK, full disclosure right up front: I have a new novel coming out in September entitled Bridge Across the Ocean. It’s about bicycling, and its opening scene is a horrible hit-and-run murder of a cyclist. I’m committed to bicycling safety, so I’m going to donate every nickel and bitethecoin to organizations trying to make the […]
Chapter 6 Lucie silently stared into the darkness of the room, the room with no light, its pitch-black windows blindly trying to discern the dark side of the moon outside. After a while she said, “I ‘spect I woulda come up to your room whether you said you were impotent or not or whatever reason […]
Note: I think this may go somewhere, so I’m going to keep writing. Do please let me know what you think. I write for you. If you need to catch up, search Lucinda for previous installments. Chapter 5 Lucinda stared at the guy. He had dropped his gaze and appeared mortified. “You’re . . . […]
There’s a series on PBS, “Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World” which tells the (purportedly) wonderful stories of innovators through time. It’s one of those glorifying paeans we see or read from time to time. One I remember well occurred in the late 1970s and early ’80s, about the computer and how its wonders […]
I do not remember my first bicycle with fondness. I was perhaps nine years old, living in Rawlins, Wyoming. My father showed up with it one day, quite out of the blue. It was huge, really quite too large for a kid. And it was heavy. I swear it was made of cast iron. Large […]
Part I If one needs to prove that popular attitudes toward writers has changed, taking a look back to the early 20th century when author bios on the book cover flap were rare if not absent, proves the point. Why? Because what mattered was between those covers: the storytelling. Rightly so, the public didn’t much […]