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Writings from the Northwest Corner
You learn a lot about a place when you set out to write it into a story. The Makah Indian town of Neah Bay touts itself rightly as the farthest northwest town in the continental United States. I have...
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Help me judge my book’s new cover
People often judge a book by its cover, but here’s your chance to judge my next book’s cover before it’s even published! In contravention to all manner of advice I have always made my own covers, in...
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The Neah Virus – Published!
At long last my new Peyton McKean Mystery and medical thriller novel THE NEAH VIRUS has been released as an ebook and paperback too! This has been a long time coming because I couldn’t seem to let it...
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Serpent Symbolism in The Neah Virus
I have tried my best to pack symbolism and deeper meaning into my new novel, The Neah Virus. One of the most potent of these symbols is the image of the double-headed serpent shown on the cover. This...
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Symbolism of The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe isn’t the only one to use the dark symbolism of the Raven in his writings. This inky harbinger of death and evil has been a perennial favorite of storytellers for centuries, if not...
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Tribal Whaling in The Neah Virus
Among the many issues brewing in The Neah Virus, the problem of tribal whaling by Makah Indians is a key source of dramatic tension. The tribe’s attempts to re-establish their millennia-old practice of...
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Ebola, anyone?
Out of the rainforests of Africa, came Ebola. Out of the rainforests of Washington State, comes the Neah Virus! With awful news coming out of Africa on a daily basis lately, it seems I crafted a very...
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Ebola vaccine overnight!
Would you think I was bragging if I said I could create an Ebola vaccine overnight? Maybe I am bragging. Or, maybe I’m a biotech wizard who has been exiled for decades, who has wandered the scientific...
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Ebola convalescent serum–I should have guessed!
Remember how strange it seemed when an Ebola patient was imported from West Africa into the US? Remember the odd scene when he was filmed walking around in an isolation moon suit in Atlanta? It almost...
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The Awesomeness of Spirit Cove
The savage Olympic Coast of Washington State is not a place for the fainthearted. Storm-torn, damp and often dismal, it challenges a visitor to stiffen up your spine or get the hell out. And don’t come...
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My Appearance at the Burien Library Saturday
Looking for something to do this coming Saturday, November 19? How about coming to the Burien Library to join me and three fellow mystery/thriller authors as we present our latest works? From 1 to 3...
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