April 8, 2025

We’re going to dive down a rabbit hole into the world of collecting Lewis Carroll books. You know the phrase “going down a rabbit hole” comes from Alice In Wonderland, right? Book collecting has been called “a gentle madness.” Maybe you’ve known a collector – but do you really know what specific insanity drove that…

January 28, 2025

I’m going to change what arrives in your mailbox in a very minor way. You don’t have to do anything except whitelist my emails when they get sent to junk mail. (Gmail sometimes sends them to “Promotions” for some reason.) Here’s the short version. I’m retired from consulting but I’m still going to write about…

November 26, 2024

The Avatar Murders received a starred review from IndieReader. “Jim Rowson’s THE AVATAR MURDERS is a winning combination of classic noir and hard sci-fi. Augmented reality is already appearing in everyday life, so its use here is surprisingly grounding; none of the uses in THE AVATAR MURDERS seem far out of reach. A society built on…

September 17, 2024

Veilpiercer received a starred review from IndieReader. I don’t know the reviewer but it’s obvious he is insightful and charming and probably handsome and much sought after. He says nice things like this: “With both dry absurdism and great humanity, Bruce Berls’s VEILPIERCER successfully turns 21st-century concerns about technology and society into a rollicking vision of…