Critical ThinkingAugust 16, 2026
A routine Ukrainian software update carried NotPetya, a wiper disguised as ransomware that did ten billion dollars of damage worldwide. Part nine of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Book MarketingAugust 15, 2026
The first month of a book project is mostly interviews and one structural decision, and having the writer twenty minutes away changes the mechanics, not the price. Sessions happen at your table with your objects in the room.
Critical ThinkingAugust 15, 2026
A USB drive from a parking lot crossed the Pentagon's air gap in 2008 and took 14 months to remove. The cleanup created US Cyber Command. Part eight of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Book MarketingAugust 14, 2026
Bookends opened in 2026 at 2208 East 2nd Avenue in Ybor City after four years, a fourteen month permitting fight, and a grant that nearly vanished. Sisters Laurie and Teresa Rodriguez traded from a mobile bookstore the whole time.
Book MarketingAugust 14, 2026
Library Friends groups take donations and sell them to fund programming, and several have permanent drop points including a drive-up slot at Palm Harbor. Used bookshops buy selectively. Nobody wants encyclopedias, textbooks past their edition, or anything damp.
Critical ThinkingAugust 14, 2026
More than 120 countries bought encryption machines from Crypto AG to keep secrets safe. The CIA and West German intelligence secretly owned it and read everything. Part seven of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Book MarketingAugust 14, 2026
The John F. Germany Public Library is the research library for this region. Four floors, and on the fourth one of the largest genealogy collections in the southeastern United States plus more than twenty thousand Burgert Brothers photographs of Tampa…
Behind the BookAugust 14, 2026
Collision with Andromeda sat unfinished for eight years. Here is the story behind a novel told partly from the point of view of a galaxy, and the lonely mind at its heart.
Critical ThinkingAugust 13, 2026
Going low-tech didn't save Hezbollah, because the devices were the attack. Why supply chain trust is a vulnerability for anyone who buys anything. Part six of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 13, 2026
The settled answer was a head-on collision in four billion years. In June 2025 a hundred thousand simulations turned that into a coin flip. Almost nothing will physically collide when it happens, because stars are too far apart. What changes…
Book MarketingAugust 13, 2026
Oxford Exchange occupies an 1891 building across from the University of Tampa that began life as a stable. Blake Casper and his sister restored it and opened in 2012. Bookstore, restaurant, tea room, and workspace in one, with the books…
GhostwritingAugust 13, 2026
Most people who need a ghostwriter never decide they do. Here are the real signs the book in your head needs another pair of hands to get written.
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