A psychic profiler, a time puzzle, a psychological ride. When I decided to develop the thriller series Instincts(c). Floating a new and undeveloped idea to a group of readers familiar with my work, my newsletter subscribers, acted as a creative spigot. It wasn’t easy on my editor for the project because of the quick turnaround [...]
BuzzFeed: Trump Told Cohen to Lie to Congress about Trump Tower Moscow President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter. Trump also supported a plan, [...]
The Making of a Thriller. IT BEGAN ...in a series called "Instincts" over the summer of 2018. After I shared two installments of the series with my Taylor Letter subscribers. It evolved into inspiration for a book. INSTINCTS, A Thriller Series A psychic puzzle, a time riddle until the plot [...]
Trump Subject of FBI Counterintelligence Investigation In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others [...]
The 2020 Wild Card: What if Trump is Out?(screen capture: Another book about Trumpworld) Vice President Joe Biden’s younger brother unloaded Monday on Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign — saying his sibling would have won Pennsylvania, would have campaigned aggressively in Michigan and would not have insulted voters as “deplorables.” [New York Post] [...]
MAY BE FATAL: : A Thriller, A Puzzle Until the Plot Unfolds IN MY next thriller, MAY BE FATAL, I ask readers to go back and forth in history with the characters. The opening chapter occurs in 2009, with the next chapter "Present Day." It's a puzzle, a riddle until the plot unfolds. [...]
Trumped by Congressional Power and Nancy Pelosi photo: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times THE FIRST time Representative Nancy Pelosi ascended to the speaker's chair (see the photo above), I was inside the Capitol waiting for history to be made, along with activist Democrats. Howard Dean walked by and gave me a brief interview. [...]
Bernie Sanders Fades “I was a little bit busy running around the country trying to make the case.” - Senator Bernie Sanders IF A progressive presidential candidate can't be bothered to run a campaign with rules about gender equality and behavior. He doesn't deserve to be the Democratic nominee. Senator Sanders got a [...]
McKay also bookends the movie with what I think of as cinema’s Universal Bimbos, those young, dumb counterparts to the mean old ladies with puckered mouths whose clucking is meant to symbolize small-town hypocrisy or whatever. In “Vice,” some women dancing in slow motion and a female fan of the “Fast and Furious” franchise pop [...]
LIGHTS, CAMERA, A BOOK TRAILER THRILLER MAY BE FATAL... (Publication date is January 22, 2019.) A necklace. A memory. The instant life changes. Behavioral profiler Dr. Kate Winter shows up to a crime scene but what she discovers opens a portal into a world beyond instincts. A moonlit night peeks in at our subconscious and [...]
