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No “Errors” here – just excitement!
Thrilled beyond words (hence the short post) to reveal the cover for my soon-to-be released new novel Fatal Errors! First in a new series, Fatal Errors introduces Dayton, Ohio, native and now Yellow Springs resident Fatál Wood (accent on the second syllable, please!) – a talented hacker with an attitude, an ingrained sense of justice,…
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What I’m reading: Red Team Blues
It’s tough to write a novel full of high-tech jargon and digital action so low-tech readers* can follow along, but Cory Doctorow has the knack in elegant, readable bits and bytes. I thoroughly enjoyed his 2021 Attack Surface, so when I heard about Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel, I didn’t hesitate. It didn’t…
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What I’m reading: The Writing Retreat
I’ve been a fan and multiple-time participant in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) since 2005. In fact, all four of my novels had their start during what I’ve always described as a “sadistic” 30-day challenge. Julia Bartz takes that event – and the sadism – and ratchets it up several notches in The Writing Retreat.…
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Unanswerable questions
Family still haunts my thoughts and my writing – division, dysfunction, lack of communication, the many elephants in the room. And as we say farewell to yet another family elder, the questions continue to pile up: And what questions remain for those few elders still with us – that we should ask now, before it’s…
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What I’m reading: Montaigne in Barn Boots
As a more focused companion to The Socrates Express I wrote about earlier, Michael Perry’s Montaigne in Barn Boots covers just one of Weiner’s philosophers: Michel de Montaigne (more formally, Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, 1533-1592), often referred to as the father of the modern essay. Oddly enough, since he’s such a vaunted name these days…
CL Pauwels at Large 