Writing
EYEWALL, SUPERCELL AND…?
Fans and friends, I’d love your input on something: namely, the title of my next book. As I’ve mentioned earlier, it’s a more traditional thriller (relative to Eyewall) set in Atlanta and dealing with bioterrorism, specifically weaponized Ebola. Ebola, if you aren’t aware, is one of the most deadly viruses on Earth. By the way,…
Read MoreKATIA, JANET AND LABOR DAY
Labor Day weekend is approaching and with it, Tropical Storm–soon-to-be-Hurricane–Katia. Katia, a derivative of the Greek name Yekaterina, would have been the J-storm this year except for that upstart, short-lived interloper, Jose. Thus, by the hair of our collective chinny chin chins, did we miss a real-life approximation of the fictional set-up in Eyewall: the…
Read MoreIT’S BEEN A GOOD MONTH SO FAR
For those of you who haven’t been following the happenings surrounding EYEWALL and its author (that would be me) the past week or so, allow me to bring you up to date. A BEST SELLER First, the novel has reached legitimate best-seller status for Amazon’s Kindle. EYEWALL broke into the top 100 and soared to…
Read MoreEYEWALL NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON’S KINDLE
EYEWALL is now available in e-book format from Amazon, which my publisher’s PR person refers to as the “800-pound gorilla” in the business. Amazon accounts for about two-thirds of all e-book sales. The company announced last week that it now sells more e-books than printed books. Since the first of April Amazon has sold 105…
Read MoreSay goodbye to Happy Dreamland
My wife, sleepy-eyed, poked her head around the corner and peeked into the TV room. “What are you doing up so early?” she asked me. Without waiting for an answer she continued. “I didn’t even hear the TV. What’s new?” “Terrorists have taken over an Air Traffic Control facility near Boston. There’re part of a…
Read MoreSome thoughts on the future of the eBook
The Middle East and north Africa aren’t the only places in the world where there are revolutions taking place. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a take-no-prisoners insurgency underway in the publishing industry. It’s called the eBook. A few months ago I certainly had my doubts about the future of these little electronic slates that…
Read MoreThe groundhog blew it
Look, if somebody yanked me out of my warm bed in the dead of winter, thrust me into the glare of spotlights, cameras and a mob of babbling, gawking people, I don’t think I’d bother looking for my shadow. A bathroom maybe, but not my shadow. Groundhog Day. What a farce. Like some semi-comatose woodchuck…
Read MoreGramps and his new Nook
Poor ol’ Gramps. No iPhone, no iPod, no iPad. Stuck in the mid-20th century. So I guess my grandson, Nicholas, figured it was time for Gramps–that’s me–to “get with it.” Thus, he presented me with a Nook eReader for Christmas. For those of you as technology challenged as I, a Nook is Barnes & Noble’s…
Read MoreHere’s a real thrill: a free ebook
It’s not a free lunch, but close. Through the International Thriller Writers (ITW) organization, fans of the genre are being offered a free ebook, Watchlist It’s an “ensemble” effort written by 22 top-of-the-line authors including Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child and Lisa Scottoline. Until December 21st you can download your free copy of Watchlist here: www.peroozal.com…
Read MoreThanksgiving 1965
As some of you read in my Wednesday Facebook entry, my Thanksgiving holiday did not begin well: Not a good start to the holiday: spent 8 hrs in the ER with my wife who had a touch of pneumonia, then a bad reaction to an antibiotic; the doctors had to scramble to find a replacement…
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