New Book Coming Soon Sneak Peak: New Hunt for Jack Reacher book! Wondering what I’ve been working so hard on for the past few months? Drumroll please… It’s the next thriller in the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series! Expected Release Date: August 25, 2015 Any guesses as to what it’s about? Here’s a short summary: […]
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Trailing Otto & Gaspar in Search of Fireworks
Here in the U.S., we’re preparing to celebrate our Independence Day July 4th One of the most appropriate ways to celebrate is with fireworks, since, on the first anniversary of our independence, Philadelphia celebrated with fireworks in the year 1777. I love fireworks! Don’t you? Traverse City, Michigan, which is where I spend my summers, […]
How Will You Use Your Leap Second?
Jack Reacher has a clock in his head. For the rest of us, on June 30th, 2015, at 23:59:60 UTC, the world clock will gain an extra second. As best I understand it, this happens because Earth’s rotation around its own axis is slowing down. Very, very, VERY gradually. But still, enough that it makes the […]
Why Coffee Helps You Get Stuff Done
In the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series, FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar drink a lot of coffee. I mean a LOT. So much that in Get Back Jack, we find Otto measuring intake not by the cup, but by the pot. “Kim took one last mental tour through her plan and […]
FBI Spy Planes: Secrets Revealed?
Reading the Hunt for Jack Reacher thrillers can send us down a slippery slope of curiosity. As we follow Otto and Gaspar’s efforts to track Jack Reacher, we become aware of how much power they could have as FBI Special Agents. And how much access to data they could have as FBI insiders – if only […]
Are You A Linear or Lateral Thinker?
Last week on my blog we talked about differences in creative routines. Today I wanted to tell you about a couple different logic styles, and see which one you think you are. In my Hunt for Jack Reacher Series thrillers, FBI Special Agent Kim Otto is a lateral thinker, often at odds with the linear-thinking […]
Saturday Special: Share A Fact About Reading
Congratulations! You’ve already accomplished something this weekend! Not that constant productivity is the best route to success: This week I wrote about the routines of highly creative people, and about how, while FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar aren’t artists or musicians, their job requires oodles of creativity. Based on the chart, it appears […]
Why Are We Hunting for Jack Reacher?
More than 300,000 readers have enjoyed Don’t Know Jack and the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series books that followed in two languages. People are wondering what happens next. Maybe you’re one of them. Have you joined the Hunt for Jack Reacher yet? Jack Reacher is a trouble magnet. He doesn’t go looking for trouble. Instead, trouble […]
What’s the Orange Part of Your Day?
What does your daily routine say about you? Check out this chart showing the different daily routines of some of the world’s most creative people. You’ll have to click on it to see a version large enough to read, but even at quick glance you can see how different types of creative people allot their time. […]
Is Jack Reacher Hiding In An Ecocapsule?
Where is Jack Reacher? It’s a little bit odd that he simply shows up somewhere every fall with no explanation for where he’s been, don’t you think? It took ten years to find Osama Bin Laden, perhaps the most wanted criminal on earth. But even he was living somewhere all that time. He wasn’t on […]
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