WritingAugust 10, 2026
The first Behind the Book essay: how my first novel grew from a Facebook message, fourteen hours of Skype interviews under a no-lying rule, a pen name I later retired, and an ending that refused a rescue.
Critical ThinkingAugust 10, 2026
In the twelve months of AD 69 Rome had four emperors and three of them died violently. Around forty thousand men died in a single afternoon at Bedriacum, Romans on both sides, and the empire learned something it never unlearned.
Book MarketingAugust 10, 2026
Feed Your Imagination is a small vintage-leaning comic shop on Central Avenue in west St. Petersburg. Classic and modern comics, graphic novels, and figures at low prices, run by an owner who sends customers to other shops when he cannot…
Book MarketingAugust 9, 2026
St. Pete Beach Public Library lends metal detectors and CD players, which is the most surprising checkout list in this series. It also runs a free native-plant seed library, stocks Blu-rays including new releases, and has a children's programme with…
Book MarketingAugust 9, 2026
TampaAntiquesandBooks runs used, rare, and antiquarian books through multiple rooms mixed with antiques. The owner is a retired professor, leather bindings turn up well under market, and the shop closes at four.
Book MarketingAugust 9, 2026
Haslam's on Central Avenue was the largest independent bookstore in Florida, more than thirty thousand square feet, opened in 1933 and run by three generations of one family. It closed in March 2020 and never reopened. The murals have been…
Critical ThinkingAugust 9, 2026
Natanz was air-gapped, and Stuxnet crossed it anyway, on USB drives, stolen certificates, and four unknown flaws. Part three of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Book MarketingAugust 8, 2026
Gulfport Public Library has an outdoor reading garden with proper shade, which in Florida is the difference between a nice idea and a usable one. Ten until seven five days straight, reading carrels, comfy sofas, seats with power outlets, free…
Book MarketingAugust 8, 2026
Heritage Village in Largo is free, open Wednesday through Sunday, and holds more than twenty-eight historic structures moved there from across Pinellas County onto twenty-one acres. The oldest is a log cabin built around 1852 by the man McMullen-Booth Road…
Critical ThinkingAugust 8, 2026
Stuxnet was the first attack that reached out of a screen and broke real machines, destroying a thousand centrifuges at an air-gapped nuclear plant. Part two of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 7, 2026
In 1984 a former Soviet propagandist described four stages for taking a country apart: demoralize a generation, destabilize its institutions, manufacture a crisis, normalize what follows. He said the first stage was already finished in America.
Book MarketingAugust 7, 2026
Steamy Lit is a romance-only bookstore on South MacDill Avenue, founded by Melissa Saavedra, a Latina Navy veteran who built the reading community on Instagram before opening a shop. It publishes an open submission form for authors, which almost no…
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