May 18, 2013
Americans are the biggest losers from the slew of scandals now rocking the White House, but who are the biggest winners? Iran, North Korea, Syria, China, and Russia. If US foreign policy seemed spineless and muddled in confronting bad actors before the Benghazi-IRS-AP scandals surfaced, the US just became that much more irrelevant to its Read More →
May 12, 2013
On April 11, 2013 I tried to email my contact at Google Books to discuss some serious defects in the service (detailed in the email below). If you’re an author considering Google Books and/or selling your book on Google Play, you may want to read through my email below, before you waste too much time Read More →
September 30, 2012
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Promoting a self-published novel (whether e-book or paperback) is a grueling, 24-7 grind. There’s pitching to book editors of major newspapers, authoring relevant articles (like this one that I published on Iranian nukes), creating a Facebook page for the book and regularly posting on it, tweeting, creating a website like this one and blogging on it, Read More →