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Spooking the Spooks…
Spooking the Spooks… Bond has Spectre. The NSA has Snowden. The CIA has teen hackers. What else is making everyday spies lose sleep? Here are ten topics the intelligence world is thinking hard about. Bernard […]
Month: December 2015
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Guide to Historical Fiction
Why do people write? Why do they tell stories, and why do other people like to read them? There are lots of reasons, but I’ve come to believe that one of the main ones is […]
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Top Ten Sherlock Holmes Actors
Basil Rathbone True, some of the films were, at best, loosely based on the short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John Watson was played by Nigel Bruce who turned the good doctor into […]
Interviews
JAMES BOND: PURE ENTERTAINMENT OR TIMELY AND RELEVANT?
(We interviewed author Paul Simpson, who just released the critically acclaimed book Bond vs Bond. Paul was able to cut through the chase and give us some facts about the world’s greatest (fictional) agent that will […]
Interviews
Interview with Mark Gatiss of Sherlock
Interview with Mark Gatiss of Sherlock AFG: First off, I am big fan of your work and I think Sherlock is fantastic—how have you managed to please so many people from so many walks of […]
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What is the Blood Flag?
AFG: Tell us what the Blood Flag is?JH: The Blood Flag was the flag carried during Hitler’s attempt to overthrow the government of Bavaria on November 9, 1923. He and three thousand others marched on […]
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Ending the Cycle of Evil
My grandfather Norman’s childhood was brutal. His father abandoned him for a new life in the United States, then his mother tried to murder him. The trauma he experienced at the hands of his own […]
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Seven Deadly Sins of Writers
SLOTH. I’m inherently lazy so I chose this one to write about first since I thought it would be easiest. If you’re lazy like me, you’ll have to learn to work harder because writing is […]
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Kareem Abdul Jabbar on Sherlock’s winning techniques…
Kareem Abdul Jabbar on Sherlock’s winning techniques…Getting hooked on Sherlock Holmes: “When I was young, I liked the movies and TV shows, especially Jeremy Brett as Sherlock. But the real love affair began when someone […]
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A Short Story Guide
I like short stories—both writing them and reading them. Some of the most memorable fiction I’ve read has been in the form of short stories. The power of a short story is its brevity, which […]