Hey NSA, Are You Listening?

Hey NSA, Are You Listening?

The Girlfriend Experience tells the story of a young man who discovers the key to breaking Internet encryption while working on a project for the National Security Agency, or NSA. When I wrote the story the idea of the NSA monitoring every phone call, email, Facebook post and tweet seemed far-fetched, although I was aware of the NSA’s project to build a gigantic data center in the Utah desert for an undisclosed purpose.


Where Egos Dare

Where Egos Dare

If you publish via Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) sooner or later you’ll find yourself on the KDP Community Page. The KDP Forums are a great place to share experience, ask questions and get answers. You can also find a fair bit of drama.


Out of Office

My posts will be less frequent for the rest of the month. I’m traveling in China. Every URL with ‘blog’ in it is blocked. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, all blocked. The New York Times published a story on Chinese corruption recently–you guessed...

The Big Book of How to Publish a Book

If you don’t own this book, buy it: I learned about Jeff Herman’s book at a writers conference last year, from a pleasant, soft-spoken, gray-haired man who makes his living writing erotica. The book lists publishing houses by genre, their editors by...

Friends and Family

I love my family. They love me. They account for 90% of my book sales–so far. And they’ve written some awesome reviews of The Girlfriend Experience. Their praise is so effusive it turns my head. Of course, I think it’s well deserved. Our side...