If you’ve ever experienced an Officers’ Club on a military base, you’re quickly becoming a part of history. Officers’ Clubs, or “O Clubs” as they’re often called, are becoming a thing of the past. If you’ve read Jack and Joe or The Enemy, the Jack Reacher thriller by Lee Child, you know why I’m interested in […]
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New Audiobook Sends the Hunt for Jack Reacher to NC
Great news, Reacher fans! I’m thrilled to let you know that the latest book in the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series, Jack and Joe, is now available in audiobook format! The brand new audiobook is narrated by Jodie Bentley, who did a fantastic job, as always. You can listen to a sample of Jack and Joe for […]
Good News for Jess Kimball: Print Media Isn’t Doomed
If you’ve been following my Jess Kimball Thrillers series, you know Jess Kimball is an investigative journalist for Taboo Magazine. Which is serious business. She pounds the pavement hunting down dangerous criminals, like a modern Italian crime family, and pursuing legal justice as a part of her victims’ rights advocacy missions involved in her stories. But […]
The Fingerprint Beneath Your Fingerprint
Fingerprints are far from foolproof. When it comes to evidence, when it comes to self-locking and unlocking devices, when it comes to having prints taken for official purposes… and everything else fingerprints are used for in this day and age, a dirty or fake fingerprint can throw off the whole process. But there’s a kind […]
LAST CALL for 2015 — 99 cent sale!
LAST CALL! Fatal Distraction, the Jess Kimball Thriller, is on sale! (99 cents at most retailers but check prices before you download!). If you haven’t read Fatal Distraction, now’s your chance to pick it up for a terrific price. You may want to grab Fatal Enemy, Jess Kimball’s “first in series,” too. Two NEW novels starring […]
How My Plan for an Italian Brothers Novel Was Hijacked
Has 2015 held adventure for you? For me, 2015 was the year I completed a grand adventure I’d planned long ago. Let me explain. First, let’s take a short time travel back to June 2014. You may remember how, in the summer of 2014, we headed off together on a most unusual trip. The project was called Flight […]
Happy Thank You Note Day!
On Thursday I was wishing you a Merry Christmas. Now, I’m wishing you a Happy Thank You Note Day. It’s an actual thing — I’m not making this up! See? So, are you a thank you note writer? This week we did a #tbt to days of yore re-visiting Plant’s Palace. In that vein, let’s harken […]
An App That Could Save A Child’s Life
Investigative Journalist Jess Kimball’s son was kidnapped ten years ago when he was a toddler. Finding him is her personal obsession, beginning in Fatal Enemy and continuing throughout my two upcoming new releases in the Jess Kimball Thriller Series — Fatal Demand and Fatal Enemy. What kind of resources does Jess Kimball have to help […]
How West Point Inspires Honesty
I love these little minions for their honesty! Here’s one of their latest truisms: Are you a cash stasher? I’m not. But if I was, I like to think I’d be a law-abiding cash stasher. As a fiction writer, I do tons of research to make sure every detail in my books is definitely plausible. On […]
Thwarting Corruption In The Military
There’s no denying it. Corruption exists everywhere, even within the military. It comes up in my Hunt for Jack Reacher thriller Jack and Joe, and it comes up in The Enemy by Lee Child. We can’t zap corruption out completely. It’s part of the human condition. But we can do our best to keep as […]
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