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Portrait of a serious man in Renaissance attire and hat.

Reformation and Counter-Reformation–Traditional Publishing and Indie Publishing

Martin Luther by Martin Cranach I am a Germanophile. My...

Robert Olen Butler and A Small Hotel

Robert Olen Butler (A Small Hotel) I mean being a...
A subway platform with a deceptive advertisement reading 'Hang on... I think it might be a trap.'

Sense of Deception

I write about deception not to train the reader in...

Spirit Falls in Russian

Spirit Falls-Ледоход_dual language Book CoverDownload   Sergei has sent me...
Two faces merging, one overlapping the other in a surreal style.

Misdirection

You don't have to fool all of the people all...
A t-shirt with a provocative political statement and Che Guevara's image.

Denial – hide the truth

I add two caveats before I go on. Though I...
Soviet-era illustration with a happy family reading Pravda and a worried yellow figure.

All deception is based on truth

A first rule of deception is truth. All deception works...
Two faces merging, one overlapping the other in a surreal style.

Pricipals of deception, or “Rules in a knife fight”

You are traversing a large and dark room.  Dim bulbs...
A subway platform with a deceptive advertisement reading 'Hang on... I think it might be a trap.'

This Web Log is about…

The purpose of this website is to make sense of...
A logo with the text 'Liar's Path' and footsteps crossing a red circular line.

Towards the next novel

March 15, 2011And on reading War and Peace (Tolstoi), On...