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  Another article, this time in the Guardian, discusses the recent disclosure by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) that they will be analyzing the metaphors discovered in communications in order to detect potential terrorist activities and discern their plans. As the author of the article writes: The spooks’ conjecture is that understanding how [...]

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In 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) passed a rule requiring bloggers to disclose any tangible benefits they receive from their blogging. For new media book review sites, this rule has made it so that reviews in which the reviewer received a copy of the book, a token payment for doing the review, or anything [...]

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  Another review of “Entanglement: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” is in, and this one is as glowing as the first. This new review is especially nice because the reviewer in question — someone I’ve never met, unfortunately — has reviewed all three novels, so provides both a nice review of the current novel but also [...]

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A reviewer portrayed by ReaderViews as “one of the toughest” has given “Entanglement: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” a strong, positive review, praising the writing, plot, suspense, and intrigue of the story: . . . a finely crafted, highly entertaining and very satisfying book. The dialogue was sizzling, the characters wonderfully intricate, the storyline compelling. Andrew [...]

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A little over three years ago, when I started writing the first Johnny Denovo mystery, which would ultimately be called, “Spam & Eggs,” I never once thought that by the end of 2010 I would have three novels on the market. At that point, writing one novel — to completion, with a satisfying cast of [...]

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“Entanglement: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” is now available via the Amazon Kindle. Later this week, it will also be available for the Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, iPad, and other e-readers. Set only days after the conclusion of “The Green Monster,” the third novel in the Denovo Mystery series finds Johnny on a television soundstage, aware [...]

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The new Johnny Denovo Mystery, entitled “Entanglement,” began inauspiciously with an idea I had years ago. In fact, the idea actually turned itself into a novel of about 15 chapters before collapsing under the weight of characters I found I just didn’t care about. And there it moldered, a smoking husk of frustration. I don’t [...]

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Two firm steps toward publication of the third Johnny Denovo mystery were taken this week. First, the text was completed and sent to the publisher. Second, the cover design was completed and approved. Entitled “Entanglement: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” the third book in the series picks up where “The Green Monster: A Johnny Denovo Mystery” [...]

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My third novel, “Entanglement: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” will be out in late fall 2010, and the cover design is coming along nicely. Designed by a superb professional designer using photography by an artist found via Flickr, the cover is meant to convey the abstract concept of entanglement, which plays many roles in the novel. [...]

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Image by .ash via Flickr The third Johnny Denovo mystery, entitled “Entanglement,” is nearing completion, and should be out this fall. The story picks up where “The Green Monster: A Johnny Denovo Mystery” left off, and answers many questions from the first two mysteries, even one that only one reader I know of has picked [...]

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