A subway platform with a deceptive advertisement reading 'Hang on... I think it might be a trap.'
27 Jan

Sense of Deception

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,...
25 Feb

Robert Olen Butler and A Small Hotel

Book Reviews
Robert Olen Butler (A Small Hotel) I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.   Al Alvarez [caption id="attachment_488" align="alignleft" width="75" caption="Robert Olen...
Portrait of a serious man in Renaissance attire and hat.
16 Mar

Reformation and Counter-Reformation–Traditional Publishing and Indie Publishing

Publishing
Martin Luther by Martin Cranach I am a Germanophile. My Wisconsin farmer-neighbors were first and second generation German immigrants.  I went to high school with the Greutsmacher, Schenk, Meyer, Schmidt,...
Cover of 'The Serpentine Code' showing two figures under a large tree in a mystical setting.
01 Apr

Codes, Ciphers and Cryptanalysis

Book Reviews / Deception
The Centerville Code 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...