Archive for the 'Books' Category


Brand New Day

Why don’t we turn the clock to zero honey We’re starting up a brand new day It’s a beautiful day in Southern California. The weather’s not why I moved here, but it’s an incredible bonus. Didn’t start out that way. Gray and misty ruled the day. Traffic was insane. And then everything started to fall […]

E-Books Die

They’re killing the book business. The old guard, the ones married to paper and indie bookstores, the publishers afraid of big bad Amazon, have achieved their goal, they’ve killed the e-book. That’s right, e-book sales are down by 21.8%, the entire book business has declined by 2.7%, this is what happens when Luddites living in […]

The Nix

The Nix: A novel This book is fantastic. The Kindle rekindled my interest in reading books. Before that I was purely a magazine guy, I needed the immediacy, the truth, books were a backwater I’d abandoned way back when. And now readers have their knickers in a twist. That’s exactly the point. These holier-than-thou supposed […]

The CAA Book

“Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency“ This book is so depressing I almost want to tell you not to read it. But that would be a mistake. I was not going to read it, because I hate oral histories and the reviews were horrid. Then I ran into Steve Barnett who told […]