I know there are readers who purchased Alter Road but never got through it. It was my first novel, and I learned a lot from writing it. Things like what not to do. Not that it is a bad book; no, I read a lot, and I know what a bad book looks like. It's just that I am an academic, and so some of my habits as an academic spilled over into ...
I'm a talking head on the Writers Fix Problems podcast: NY Times best selling author Blaine Pardoe & I discuss my new novel Friendship Games about a US war with Iran. It was fun!
I am trying to understand the Ukraine War.
So AncestryDNA has a category labeled "Traits Report". I hadn't clicked on that before, but I was poking around and they have a new genetics-based category on Morning Person vs Night Owl.
I recently read Admiral William McRaven's Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy). McRaven is a retired Navy SEAL Admiral. He is credited for organizing and overseeing Operation Neptune's Spear, the special operations raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011.
Geography plays a significant role in Friendship Games. Following the sinking of a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, prominent Iranians are convinced that the USA will launch a war and seek nothing short of regime change and an end to the Islamic Republic.
FRIENDSHIP GAMES AUDIOBOOK RELEASED
It is St. Patrick's Day 2023, and Irish band U2 released their 40-song new (make that 'reimagined') album Songs of Surrender. 'Reimagined' in the sense that the 40 songs of SOS are not new tracks but, rather, 'reimagined' updates of 40 songs from their existing discography.
I've been meaning to write a review of Blaine Pardoe's Blue Dawn for quite some time.
Okay, so this I like. Yes, it is in the same vein as the other three pre-released singles: Pride (I like that new ending, though), With Or Without You, One. Stripped down and slow. But I haven't been a true fan of anything past their Zooropa album except for some individual songs here and there. I do like their most recent album, ...