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Damn, writing is hard. I am two months into getting down to actually write. I got stuck at around 5,000 words. A little less, actually.

Friendship Games advanced to Chanticleer Reviews Short List for the Global Thriller Book Award.

More good news today. Friendship Games advanced to Chanticleer Reviews CLUE Book Awards Short List for Suspense/Thrillers.

Friendship Games was selected by the editors of Kirkus Reviews as one of their Best Books of 2023!

The world is at war, but so far, we are not in a world war – knock on wood. Let's be thankful for our relative peace and prosperity in the current moment and think of our friends and fellow humans suffering under the tyranny, and specter of tyranny, of killers and warmongers. I look to Avi Loeb's child-like...

What will it take for you to read it? I mean, if you like Tom Clancy, Dan Brown, Eric L. Harry, Steven Konkoly, etc., what are you waiting for?

After previously being selected to Chanticleer Reviews Long List for Suspense/Thrillers, Friendship Games was passed along to its Global Thriller Book Awards for High Stakes Suspense. I agree that that might be the most appropriate category. And now it has been selected to that group's Long List.

Economist Noah Smith's latest post blew up my next book.

In my interview on the Writers Fix Problems podcast, hosted by NY Times bestselling author Blaine Pardoe, Blaine pointed out that I had employed a few "Easter Eggs" here and there that he really enjoyed. "Easter Eggs" are ways that I paid homage to other authors or works, or even political symbolism, that I incorporated into Friendship Games.