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EVOKE (the novel) puts you way beyond ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence

Instead of watching the videos of Tiger Woods winning a major tournament, suppose you could be Tiger, see through his eyes and feel his heartbeat as he sinks the final putt for the win. EVOKE does just that. It can seat you at a fine restaurant in Paris, put you in the driver’s seat of a Grand Prix race or bed you with the girl of your dreams. The politics and social impact of EVOKE shakes the American government and changes the lives of its users. Grab a copy at Amazon and see the future.

The “Fake-It-till-You-Make-It” World of College Acceptance. Only the Rich Need Apply.

Now here’s something interesting for those of you in the business of writerly endeavor. It has all the essentials of fraud, a touch of gaming the system and a link to ChatGPT. It is, of course, another example of the rich bribing their kids into admittance to top...

Why Read a Novel at All or, for That Matter, Why Write Them?

One could hardly be a writer of fiction without wondering just what it is that draws us to reading at all. For me, the answer is quite straight-forward. Fiction allows me, within the scope of three or four hundred pages, to live an alternative life. Not confined to...

There Was a Time I Wrote Poetry…

There was a time I wrote poetry. Then it turned itself off and prose returned. If you write, have you ever had that happen? I’m not really even a fan of poetry and rarely read it for pleasure. And yet for probably a year and a half it simply came to me on a tram, or...

Idling Away My Sunday

Several war memoirs I’ve read recently concern the desires of men who have long been in the trenches and I think about Ukraine and friends of mine who've been to war. Those dreams aren’t often directed at a steak dinner, hot shower, or even sex. The predominant wish,...