Watching the presidential debate Wednesday morning (17th October) Bangkok time was a reminder that what people saw, judged, and talked...

As social creatures, in strict accordance with a primate nature, we can’t help but measure our rank and status. Writers are no...

A writer’s life is not unlike a drama with three acts. The first act ends around 39 years old, the second act runs from 40 to 59 years...

Books offer a choice about the color of the pill you are asked to swallow. In the classic film circa 1999, The Matrix the color coded...

I have some books coming out soon. Someone suggested I needed a new photograph for the place on the back cover where an author’s photo ...

My German translator Peter Friedrich made a recent observation about the Vincent Calvino series that I’ve been thinking about. Peter...

At five in the morning of Tuesday, September the 4th, a 27-year-old Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya drove his million-dollar Ferrari on...

The great California Gold Rush of 1849 drew thousands of people who dreamed of striking it rich by panning for gold. One lesson of ’49...

Who do you trust? What do you trust in? Those are two questions people have asked themselves since people with sufficiently large brains...

What do you remember from this morning? Yesterday, last week, last year, when you were thirty years old, when you were nine years old?...

Let’s say you’ve written a book. Or maybe you are thinking about writing a book. It might be a crime novel set in an exotic location. It...

The lag between penning an editorial and breaking news can seem an eternity even when the two appear in the same edition of the...

The impulse motivating a lot of crime is greed. The outlier wants money for drugs, hot cars or motorcycles, beautiful women, expensive...

Technology is the major driver of change. Creative destruction is often used to describe the train wreck-like effect that new technology...

Barbarians have acquired a bad name. Their negative press is part of our hive programming. We feel revulsion to outsiders, the...

I have been playing with the idea that noir crime authors are a subset of hackers into the hive mind collectively shared by their...

Irony has been the stock and trade of novelists through the ages. George Orwell’s The Hanging is a perfect example of dramatic irony. We...

Tourists checking into a five-star Bangkok hotel or dining at an upscale restaurant will no doubt recall the pleasure of receiving a...

Those who write to support the guardians of received truth, wisdom or belief are caretakers working a garden owned, planted, and...

Last week I discussed the way writers, among others, can gather up unconnected events, people and things and find an underlying theme...