Just as Thursday is a “throwback” (currently to Tricky Dick’s Coffee House), Tuesday will be “Book Promo Day” i.e., info about books I have written/published through four decades.
We kick off today with notice about an upcoming book scheduled for publication later this year by my old friend Jeremy Kay and his independent publishing house Bartleby Press.
Jeremy and I met 33 years ago at Chadwick’s, a bar in Chevy Chase D.C. It was clear then, as now, that Jeremy and I were born with ink in our veins; a mutual appreciation for the printed word.
Grab real pages while you can. By 2033 printed books and newspapers will cease to exist—and I happily expect to go out with them.
And save your books! If your children and grandchildren are smart enough to hold onto them (fat chance), they will be valuable one day—and perhaps the only source of knowledge when a solar storm or nuclear/cyber war shuts down the digital/virtual world—a world invented to inhibit freedom and exert control.
For a better understanding of this, read Happenstance when published and ye shall know the truth (though don’t count on it to set you free…).
HAPPENSTANCE
Once a popular print columnist, Meechy Blake has settled into an uneasy retirement. His dream about writing a major book exposing the dangers of Artificial Intelligence have faded, along with his dwindling bank account.
He reluctantly accepts a reporting assignment from a webzine, if only to pay an unexpected debt.
The assignment? A seemingly fluffy travel piece about an obscure canyon in southern California called Devil’s Gate.
Driving down the coast, Blake takes the opportunity to reestablish contact with a secretive source from the old days—a retired scientist he nicknamed Dr. Boom-Boom, who once resided at the very hub of the U.S. government’s national security establishment.
When Blake tells Boom-Boom where he’s going, the scientist tries to caution him about engaging Devil’s Gate, an eerie site with an occult connection.
Blake laughs off the warning and continues onward, fully embracing his assignment.
That’s when things begin to go seriously wrong and, after a few strange encounters, Blake realizes he has become a target.
But why—and by whom?
Carefully covering his tracks, Blake sets off on a journey to answer these vexing questions, leading him to the hottest place on earth.
Happenstance takes the reader into some very shadowy territory. And as Blake’s questing for the truth evolves, certain secrets come to light that may have the reader asking, Is this really just a fantasy—or is the author revealing some hidden truth?
That nagging question is made all the more tantalizing by the author’s enigmatic background in the world of intelligence and espionage—and his journalistic reveals of that veiled community.
I sincerely hope you have more than 10 years left.... the number of real journalists is small, we want to hang on to those we have as long as we can .