Like Justin Walker, the character of Pratik Shah was developed for my unpublished novel, The Wolverine. In the novel, Pratik was a star football player at The Ohio State University. He and Justin became close friends, and the two occasionally visited Justin’s family in north-central Ohio. During one of those visits, Pratik confessed that he…
Justin Walker was created for the first novel I wrote. I intended for The Wolverine to be a thriller. Unfortunately, it wasn’t very thrilling. Or, to use a technical writing term, it sucked. Needless to say, it wasn’t published. Despite the results, the experience of writing the novel was valuable. In The Wolverine, Justin was…
Like many people, I was outraged by the government’s response to the COVID pandemic. Businesses were forced to close, and it was easy to predict many of the problems that would ensue. Jobs would be lost, and many would be unable to pay their rent or mortgage. The government then compounded the problem by instituting…
For forty years, I have written extensively about current events, with a focus on property rights. Much of my writing has addressed the flawed ideas underlying government and social policies, as well as the proper alternatives. While I found this intellectually stimulating, it wasn’t as satisfying as I had desired. Presenting alternatives to conventional ideas…
I have been asked how I come up with ideas for my novels. Sometimes I can point to something specific, such as an event or story in the news. However, at other times the idea develops slowly and evolves from several sources. The Shattering Paradigms series is an example of the latter. In early 2024,…