My Insights
My latest thoughts, stories, and content here.
Denial – hide the truth
I add two caveats before I go on. Though I address the principals of denial and deception––deception, denial, deceit and misdirection––successively, linearity in deception, deception analysis and counter-deception should be,...
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...
On the Eve of 2012, Peer Literary Criticism
It is New Year’s Eve 2012 in Madison, Wisconsin. Yesterday there was an alternating snow-sleet-rain storm in our Lake Wingra microclimate. Today this small world is grey and ice-covered. Tomorrow...
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....
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,...
Robert Olen Butler and A Small Hotel
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...
Reformation and Counter-Reformation–Traditional Publishing and Indie 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,...
Codes, Ciphers and Cryptanalysis
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...
