Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Real people in my fiction
The recent Steven Soderbergh movie Let Them All Talk tells the story of a successful old writer, hoping to reconnect with two closest friends of her youth — but one friend feels the writer’s exposure of her real-life secrets, in the writer’s most successful book, led to her divorce and subsequent poverty. I can’t promise…
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A Demon movie cast
How would you cast The Demon in Business Class movie?
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Video – The Book Break
Host Melissa Martinez interviews me about Demon, my Tarot, and more!
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From the vaults…
January 2021 – this month’s selection from the vaults is one of my most popular posts, from 2012, about my spiritual beliefs – Dark Consciousness I have decided to come clean. I am not an atheist. People who note the Abrahamic and Gothic mythologies behind my novel might be a little surprised to hear I…
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Excerpt – Chapter 8
In this excerpt from The Demon in Business Class, Gabriel and his boss try to recruit a criminal with a secret hobby, and a special talent… from Chapter 8 – San Francisco In the silent dim gray, the limousine’s facing benches seemed less car than train. Gabriel remembered long rides in Russia, bundled up in…
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Excerpt – Chapter 12
In this excerpt from The Demon in Business Class, in a hotel bar in Aberdeen, Scotland, two people meet cute … not so cute. Chapter 12 — Aberdeen Gosh she was pretty. “The bartender comes and goes,” Gabriel told her. “He helps in the kitchen.” Her face was a tangram of sharp ellipses: pointed chin,…
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Excerpt – Chapter 1
Begin at the beginning! In this opening excerpt from The Demon in Business Class, meet Zarabeth, who both sinks and rises when her office gives her bad news… APRIL 2009BANKRUPTCY – You Need Help Chapter 1 — Washington, DC In the fake-oak-paneled conference room, Zarabeth Battrie found a dozen others standing. All looked wilted and…
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The first idea
The idea for The Demon in Business Class came at a weird time. I had a good job, opening overseas offices for the internet company AOL. I had just finished a six-month stint in Tokyo, a life-changing and confidence-building experience. I was waiting to start my upcoming assignment in Sydney — waiting far longer than…
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A playlist for The Demon in Business Class
I created this playlist for a blog tour — if you want to start listening, here it is on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tR8uHsFCla94vEFZnwz8c It was a fun project, sort of a soundtrack with backstory. Some of these songs were specific influences, though unnamed, on certain scenes. Other songs evoke its moods. The project also put me in…
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