Scott Thunes is in the hospital. He has a preliminary diagnosis of unstable angina, a treatable condition. After he comes home, he’ll have to make some changes. People rarely discuss the healing power of gratitude. I understand why: It’s not emphasized in our culture. We’re taught to say, “Thank you,” but as we grow up,…
Too close to home
January 31, 2024
Today I gave my first radio interview about how Mike Albee and Lura Dold of Sandpiper Publicity scammed me of $40,000 by exploiting the suicides of my parents. I used their names on the air, I identified their company, and I briefly described how it was done. This is just the beginning. Mike and Lura…
Reconstruction
January 30, 2024
Today I began the reconstruction of my ruined literary career. I’m not doing it in the hopes of achieving success but rather to tie up loose ends and not leave Mike and Albee and Lura Dold with the last word. Mike and Lura of Sandpiper Publicity defrauded me of $40,000 by exploiting the suicides of…
Misfortune separates
January 29, 2024
When everything goes south for you, that’s when you find out who your real friends are. I watched virtually all of Mom’s lifelong buddies desert her as she died. Hardly any even called. Dad didn’t have any friends, but that was how he liked it. After my parents committed suicide, Mike Albee and Lura Dold…
Excised snippet Number Three
January 28, 2024
Here’s the third passage from my novel Invisible Idiot, which became Chasing the Last Whale, Volume Two of the Ghosts Trilogy. I agreed with the need to remove these scenes, but since I like them, I’m publishing them here when I get the urge. Even though Mike Albee and Lura Dold of Sandpiper Publicity defrauded…
I am completely without fear
January 27, 2024
Yesterday I was sent a message explaining why the person in question didn’t want to cover my story of how Mike Albee and Lura Dold of Sandpiper Publicity defrauded me of $40,000 by exploiting the suicides of my parents in 2013. The writer mentioned the Woodside Literary Agency and how its con artists stalked the…
You are quite safe here
January 26, 2024
The first time I heard “Paranoimia,” by Art of Noise, I was in a cafe in Tokyo. There was a video jukebox by the door. Since I loved the band, I chose this unknown song, curious to see what it was like. I was floored. It wasn’t just the brilliant musicianship or the imagery; the…
A nation of mice
January 26, 2024
In the book Alfred Hitchcock’s Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries there’s a great story titled “The Mystery of the Three Blind Mice,” about a rich old bastard who everybody hates. The story begins this way. Forever after, Andy Adams would remember that tremendous, metallic voice screaming for help, bringing him out of a sound sleep with the blankets…
Interview with a spambot
January 25, 2024
It could be a coincidence, but a couple of days after I outed Mike Albee and Lura Dold of Sandpiper Publicity as frauds and con artists who scammed me for $40,000, my Website has been getting hundreds of spam e-mails per hour. Since this is beyond inane, I made an interview by lifting unedited passages…