Ледоход (Spirit Falls  in Russian)

Ледоход (Spirit Falls in Russian)

  Spirit Falls – Ледоход My long time, Merrill, Wisconsin, friend Serge Kotlar has been translating my Cold War inter-connected series of novels into Russian.  The first volume,  Spirit Falls (Ледоход in Russian)  is now available in print and electronic...
Codes, Ciphers and Cryptanalysis

Codes, Ciphers and Cryptanalysis

Justin A. Day (pseudonym) with  Jan Weeks published The Centerville Code forty-two years too late for me.   It is a 10-13 year-old boy adventure book where the heroes require facility in cryptanalysis––the reading of codes­­.  It is the type of story I read as a...
Sense of Deception

Sense of Deception

I write about deception not to train the reader in its arcane arts, but to research my novels. There is deception in nearly any situation you can think of––nature, business, politics, or personal relationships––anywhere it might provide someone, or something, an edge....

Translation to Russian

Sergei has sent me the first chapters of his Russian translation of Spirit Falls (Дух в Водопаде?  Те, кторые говорят по русски, предлогайте еще название книги), which I have postedhere. He is concerned whether his translation captures the novel’s spirit. For those...
Ледоход (Spirit Falls  in Russian)

Misdirection

You don’t have to fool all of the people all of the time; you just have to fool the right people some of the time. (folk wisdom) On June 18 (1941) Timoshenko and Zhukov tried once again to persuade Stalin and the Politburo to put the Army on full alert. The more...