President Trump Five detrimental, even dangerous, ramifications of President Trump’s decision to pull out of the nuclear deal with Iran have made the rounds of the news media outlets since Tuesday’s action: Iran will ramp up its production of nuclear weapons. A war could result. It will show the rest of the world, notably […]
Lauren Doyle Owens Though I’ve authored two murder mysteries – one, more of a legal thriller, awaiting a publisher – the murder fiction genre never has particularly attracted me. I don’t need to be frightened; the real world is so full of scary stuff that I have all I can handle. However, the world […]
More and more, people are becoming concerned about what is happening in our federal government. On Saturday, I met a man in a coffee shop reading the new book by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Fascism: A Warning. He had previously read A Higher Loyalty, by James Comey, the FBI director whom President Trump […]
The reality of the chaos in the current White House becomes wearisome after a while, and an escape into fiction is like a breath of fresh air. But the situation that faces our country is too important to ignore, and a recently published novel titled Remote Access shows us what it might be like behind […]
Letters to the Editor of the Palm Beach Post reveal that, to some patrons, shopping at Publix no longer is a pleasure, but a pain. The letters came on the heels of a Post editorial assailing Publix for contributing a lot of money to the Florida gubernatorial campaign of Adam Putnam, the state’s far-right-wing agriculture […]
If you still haven’t signed up for this contest, it’s not to late. The contest runs through Wednesday, June 20. It costs nothing to enter, and you might be one of two winners of a slew of free books and an eReader. My book, MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died, is among […]
For an author, acquiring book reviews on Amazon is a difficult task, at best. Amazon imposes strict restrictions on the posting of reviews, and if they are not met, down come the reviews. That is like getting kicked in the head for the author, who depends on reviews for credibility. My book MURDER IN PALM […]
President Trump/GOP congressional leaders I for the life of me can think of only two things that have benefited our economy under Trump: the tax cuts and the removal of regulations. But the tax cuts haven’t done much to boost wages, and won’t, in the long run, be very beneficial because 83 percent went […]
Hello, young book lovers, whoever you are … Uh, oh, you may be too young to be familiar with that augmented lyric from The King and I, the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. No matter, if you like reading crime and thriller novels, this is for you. It’s a contest by which you can win […]
Fred Barbash At the risk of sounding obsessive, I must once again bring up an egregious grammatical error that is popping up with ever more frequency in print journalism, as well as other media. This is the fourth entry in The Grammar Grouch in less than four years that deals with this issue. I refer […]