ArtificialIntelligence By now, you’ve seen news stories that claim AI is the biggest boom for humans or the thing that will eventually...

“We’ll take any award we can get.” -  Peter Mehlman, Co-Producer of Seinfeld The year my first novel, Death in Little Tokyo, was...

Several years ago, a well-known book editor challenged the writers on the Dorothyl Mystery List to tell him why he should publish them....

Turin Book Fair 2023 Thanks to the generosity of my Italian publisher, Marcos y Marcos, I was invited to the 2023 Turin International...

Right after World War II, Harold Robbins was the King of Trashy Beach Books. The New Yorker Magazine called him “the dirty old man of...

Back in the day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I used to receive royalty by check in the mail instead of through a bank transfer....

Learning from a Master is a very Asian way of education. A lot of story time is spent on the student learning valuable lessons, even when...

“I am not writing for the audience of today. I am writing for readers 200 years from now.” At my first writing conference, I was rather...

The first time I had a fellow writer tell me they had a fear of writing, I didn’t understand it. I had been writing and selling...

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As the story goes, Buddha was wandering the countryside with his disciples. He would stop occasionally and give a lecture, and when he...

“If someone tells you they understand Zen, then the chances are they don’t know Zen.” – Alan Watts It might be easier to start by...

A constant question most writers get is where do story ideas come from? Once, as a joke, I said there was a magazine called “Ideas” that...

When you first start writing, it usually takes a while to understand that, in the fictional world you’re creating, you are God. You can...

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Let’s face it, the “tame” deer in Japan are really thugs. It’s cute when they come up to you and bow, but that behavior is designed to...

For anyone who knows me, anything about the Emperor would probably mean Japan. In this case, however, I’m talking about the Emperor of...

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There is no such thing as “Writer’s Block.” Plumbers don’t get Plumber’s Block. Car mechanics don’t get Mechanic’s Block. And if you’ve...