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GLOBAL WARMING: THE NEW POPULAR BOOGEYMAN
DID GLOBAL WARMING TRIGGER THE DEADLY NOVEMBER TORNADO OUTBREAK? Certainly the devastating tornado outbreak of Sunday, November 17, will go down as one of the worst November onslaughts on record . . . but not the worst, at least in terms of the number of tornadoes. (It will be in 4th place.) The image below…
Read MoreHow I Almost Blew It With BLIZZARD
You’d think after three novels I’d know the “rules.” (Actually, as NYT best-selling author Steve Berry likes to say about his ten rules of writing, the number one rule is “There are no rules.”) So let’s just call them guidelines. I actually do know the guidelines, but I managed to ignore one of the most…
Read MoreEast Coast snowstorm?
Allow me to back off from blogging about writing and books for a moment. There’s an interesting dilemma brewing for weather forecasters in the Eastern U. S. (Thankfully, I’m retired and really don’t have to worry about such things anymore. Now I’m just a strap-hanger and kibitzer . . . and blogger.) Here’s what’s going…
Read MoreThink EYEWALL Without the Ocean
“Uh oh,” I said to myself, after reading an email from an old friend of mine who lives in the Pacific Northwest. “This could be a problem.” My friend, Barbara, like me, grew up in western Oregon where thunderstorms are few and far between, and supercells—the most violent of all thunderstorms, the kind that spit…
Read MoreDeliciously Sleazy
As a way of raising the curtain on my new Website, I’d like to introduce you to Jerry Metcalf, a key character in Supercell. Jerry isn’t necessarily a likable guy. But he is, as one reviewer put it, “deliciously sleazy.” Metcalf is a self-proclaimed “chief of staff” for Global-American Cinema. “I make sure stuff gets…
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