I have experimented substantially with AI, as I believe most of you have done. I would never use generative AI in my own writing, although I do use AI-assisted software, such as prowritingaid.com, to catch errors. But I wondered how a common AI program, Chat-GPT, would view my novels as a whole. So, I experimented.…

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About 2,300 years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote the Dialogues, among which was The Republic. There, in Book IX, Plato warns us of the “tyrant,” and his depiction eerily resembles Donald Trump. Plato says that the tyrant: (1) arises out of the democratic republic; (2) has difficulty sleeping; (3) does not shrink from bloodshed;…

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The Covo Family Saga has now made it to the short-list of the 2025 Chanticleer Book Series Awards! The Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs). chantireviews.com. I am hoping beyond hope that my collection, which so far is comprised of The Flight of the Veil, The Music Stalker, To See…

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Video never tells the whole story. I learned this decades ago as a prosecutor in the Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice. Yes, that’s the same unit that presumably will review the FBI investigation into the shooting death of Renee Good in Minneapolis. Video evidence of alleged police misconduct was relatively…

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The news goes from terrible to worse than terrible. https://www.ms.now/news/doj-civil-rights-division-officials-quit-harmeet-dhillon The entire leadership of the Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice has resigned in protest of the USDOJ’s apparent decision not to investigate the police shooting death of Renee Good. I worked there for four years, and most of the time…

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Review of Forgiven (9781685136734) — Foreword Reviews “In Bruce J. Berger’s spiritual novel Forgiven, a trip to Greece prompts life changes for each member of a busy Jewish family. … The story assumes an urgent, intense pace prior to the Greece trip, after which the book focuses on lush landscapes and personal reflections more. A storm…

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It’s long past time for my rant on the subject of so-called book publicists. I say “so-called” because book publicists do very little to actually publicize their clients’ books. So what do they do? Well, they are great at promises. “I promise you that I have great contacts in the media industry in the DMV…

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What are the chances that two entirely separate mass shootings are both perpetrated by graduate physics students who seemingly failed in the study of plasma? (I don’t have any understanding of plasma, despite my undergraduate degree in the sciences. Plasma was never on my radar, and I managed to get past my college physics course…

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It’s been fifty years since I was a law clerk to the Honorable Judge John Minor Wisdom, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. How is it possible that so much time has passed? In many ways, my first post-law-school job seems like it could have…

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Moving up in the competition with a Silver Book Award from Literary Titan … Literary Titan Silver Book Award | LITERARY TITAN! Let this be only the first step!

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