Cartoon I love the cartoon we chose for publicity and I think Jackie’s animation of it is perfect.
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Montrose
In a few months I will be publishing my first thriller, though it actually was the second thriller I ever write. My agent back in 1990 said I had to write three and I did so though in the two years he was my agent he never got me taken. My first thriller was about…
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Reviews by readers of the first 10,000 words of A Brief History Of Lies within one day of uploading not very good rtfs. ……………………………………………………………………………… Barry Wenlock wrote 15 hours ago I’m having trouble reading it on my screen but what I’ve read makes me think I would buy this book. It’s such an interesting subject….
Lie for Votes
Politics is a best lie game. The reasons for this are many but stem mainly from the very business of leadership. Leadership requires either you have a dictatorial relationship with those you lead or you rule through consensus. If dictatorial you don’t mind what you do or say, your aim is to maintain your leadership….
If We Lie To
our children they will grow up to lie to us. It is a curious fact about people who habitually lie that they expect to always be told the truth. I am not sure if this is because their lies are never thought out, it is just the way they are and they are so used…
To Lie Out Of Love
Why do we lie to those are love the most? There are long lists of what we will not say to those we love stretching from lying about liking their family members to lying about who we find sexy. Are we scared? Embarrassed? Unsure? Or do we shy away from those things where we know…
Social Ineptitude
Beginning to publish oneself is an interesting adventure not the least because one does it because one feels the work is worth reading, and not so much for the money. If the world were moneyless it would be even more of a pleasure. But I worry that people replace social networking for marketing of a…
Long Ago And Close By
Have you ever wondered when the first lie might have been given? Several religions have exactly this moment in their myths and many, many stories about the paradigm of a liar, or the waywardness of a lie itself. Human beings may be evolved to lie. Although not all experts are convinced of the research carried…
War and Business
We all know lies in War are almost a necessity and certainly a very useful weapon in their own right. It also makes a lot more money than the straight truth would for business people. Just think if you proposed a law that everything sold to you had to carry two prices, the price the…
Children
Most children learn to lie around the age of four. More intelligent children learn about lying around the age of three. These first lies are usually very obvious to parents, and are mostly altruistic. As the child ages the lies develop and so does the face, with that typical ‘face’ that parents know so well…