Listed below you will find the complete set of book bubbles for my short story The Final Push. What are book bubbles? Bublish is a unique book-discovery website that uses “book bubbles” to create an interface between authors and readers. The bubbles contain excerpts from the text alongside author insights, and the author can create… Continue Reading
Category Archives: For Readers
The Immortal Game
If you found this book lying around somewhere with the covers torn off, and you started reading it, you might think it was a Dennis Lehane novel. It’s crime fiction set in Boston, and its primary characters are mobsters and a wounded cop, but more importantly, the characters and language have great depth. This… Continue Reading
The Organ Takers Launch Day
That’s right. The Organ Takers launches today and is now available in hardcover, paperback, and e-book formats from all of the major retailers. Go to the preview page to learn about the story and what inspired it. Go to the books page for links to retailers. View the latest book bubble here. Watch… Continue Reading
Trauma University – Part 4: Emergency Tracheostomy
Are you a doomsday survivalist preparing for Armageddon, and you are concerned that one of your compatriots may take a bullet or shrapnel to the face, or sustain a severe burn to the head, thus developing obstruction of the upper airway? Or perhaps you frequently dine in restaurants, and you fear that one of your… Continue Reading
More Book Bubbles
Since my last “Bublish” post, I’ve added five more book bubbles for my short story The Final Push. If you haven’t read my original post about Bublish, here’s a recap: Bublish is a unique book-discovery website that uses “book bubbles” to create an interface between authors and readers. The bubbles contain excerpts from the text alongside author… Continue Reading
Trauma University – Part 3: “Trauma is a Recurrent Disease.”
Trauma is a recurrent disease? What does that mean? This is one of the many truths I learned as a surgery resident at LSU. Most of the traumatic injuries we treated were associated with drugs, alcohol, firearms, stabbing implements, blunt objects, motor vehicles, or… Continue Reading
Trauma University – Part 2: What Are These Things?
Last month I showed photos of a laryngoscope and an endotracheal tube, and I explained how they are used to ventilate a patient who can no longer breathe on his or her own (go here for a recap). In many medical and surgical emergencies, securing the airway and ventilating the patient is the top priority. … Continue Reading
Trauma University – Part 1: What Are These Things …
… and what are they doing on an author website? The instrument on the left is a laryngoscope. The tube on the right is an endotracheal tube. They are used to intubate patients who cannot breathe for themselves, such as those who are undergoing general anesthesia for surgery, or who have a medical condition that precludes them from… Continue Reading
The Me, Myself, and I Interview – Part 6
In part 5 of this interview I described the most horrific surgery case I’ve ever seen, and went on to discuss how that experience shaped, and continues to influence, the characters I develop. In this installment, I talk about the single incident that set my writing career in motion. Me: All right. That was interesting, but… Continue Reading
The Me, Myself, and I Interview – Part 5
What happens when a young man drives his convertible into the base of a power pole and the electrical transformer falls in his lap? And what does that have to do with the building of fictional characters? As writers, a great deal of ourselves end up in our characters. Some of our personality… Continue Reading