Kicking Ass and Taking Names
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
— Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
How do you sell a thriller or a suspense novel these days? Obviously you advertise, get the word out. Spend money to make money. Develop a cult following. Make [...]
Popmatters can be replaced with V. MacEwan…
PopMatters: I’ve been thinking about how James Bond had all the gadgets and the classic scene when the wonderful camera-pen or toilet-seat/mine sweeper were revealed. The details of how the amazing gizmo worked were never as important as what it did. Now, with computer knowledge becoming more widespread, is [...]
Me and godZ. Who would have thought we’d both still be hanging out together after all this time? Back in the early ’70s, while I learned the finer points of substance abuse during my college years, godZ was there with Minya, teaching a young boy on the run all about courage in his 1971 classic [...]
The Deer Camp is about 20 miles into the next county, five miles down a winding stretch of dirt road, and smack in the middle of 200 acres of forest and swamp. The accommodation at Dear Camp is a fairly new cinderblock cabin: one huge room with a small lean-to kitchen off to the side. A screened-in porch, furnished with three picnic tables, a couple of rocking chairs, and a church pew, runs across the front and down one side. Inside, bunk beds line the walls and there’s a huge poker table in the middle of the room.
