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Category Archives: Novels thrillers
Crazy Japanese religious cults: how I got the idea for my first book.
Today I thought about why I used the Japanese religious cult “Aum Shinrikyo” as the starting point for my first novel. My ex-wife and I stopped in Japan on our way back from Europe in 1985, and we visited Tokyo, … Continue reading
How many characters spoil the plot?
Last night I saw Prometheus, the supposed prequel to 1973 film Alien, with Sigourney Weaver. Frankly, the plot didn’t impress me, and the film suffered from what I suspect is a common fault in films and books: too many “main” … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Books - thrillers, Books action adventure, Film Reviews, Films, Literature, Novel, Novels action adventure, Novels thrillers
Tagged 1984, Books, Catch 22, Film plots, Film Review, Harry Potter, main characters, Novel Plots, Prometheuseus, Promrtheus film, Richard Snow Writer, Steele Magnolias, Yossarian
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Knowing you could have prevented your sister’s death.
Today I released my new novel, Fire Damage, on Amazon Kindle. How do you get over knowing that you could have prevented your sister’s murder? Cameron Oakwood is an intelligence analyst whose sister and nephew were killed in a car … Continue reading
Posted in Books - thrillers, Books action adventure, Novels, Novels action adventure, Novels thrillers, Thriller
Tagged Action Novel, Cults, Japan, Novel, Novel thriller, Richard Snow, Terrorism
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