So yesterday I took time off from finishing the novel to enjoy a piece of Americana, to-wit: the annual Pumpkin Chunkin’ festival out on the plains of Estancia, NM. What they do, see, is build these enormous war machines, then shoot vegetables from them. In addition to vegetable warfare, the festival featured many activities that […]

I haven’t been posting a lot here in the last couple weeks, and there are a couple reasons for that. First, I’ve been correcting page proofs for Deep State, my next novel and the sequel to This Is Not a Game, available in the US and UK next February wherever fine books are sold. Second, […]

This is third in a series of posts about my early life as a writer, inspired in part by my digging through old tax records.  1981, though the third year in which I earned my living through writing, was the first year in which I was actually published. I have remarked in the past that […]

Friend of the blog Ralf sent me a link to an article in which it is claimed that the SEC/CFTC investigation into May’s Flash Crash has finally come up with the culprit— naturally, an automated trading program. In the 104-page report, staff members at Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said […]