At 4 PM Charlaine Harris - has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Now she lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, her three children, three dogs, and a duck. The duck stays outside. Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. After holding down some low-level jobs, she had the opportunity to stay home and write, and the resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of writing mystery series, and soon had her own traditional books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. Her first Teagarden, REAL MURDERS, garnered an Agatha nomination. Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences. When Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, DEAD UNTIL DARK broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who just enjoy a good adventure. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, has drawn more readers. The southern vampire books are published in Japan, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, Thailand, Spain, France, and Russia. In addition to Sookie, Charlaine has another heroine with a strange ability. Harper Connelly, lightning-struck and strange, can find corpses . . . and that’s how she makes her living. In addition to her work as a writer, Charlaine is the past senior warden of St. James Episcopal Church, a board member of Mystery Writers of America, a past board member of Sisters in Crime, a member of the American Crime Writers League, and past president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. She spends her “spare” time reading, watching her daughter play sports, traveling, and going to the movies.”
http://www.charlaineharris.com/
http://www.hbo.com/trueblood/
At 4:30 Ellen Brown - “Web Of Debt”
Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In “Web of Debt”, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust.” She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her earlier books focused on the pharmaceutical cartel that gets its power from “the money trust.” Her eleven books include “Forbidden Medicine”, “Nature’s Pharmacy” (co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker), and “The Key to Ultimate Health” (co-authored with Dr. Richard Hansen). Her websites are:
http://www.webofdebt.com
http://www.ellenbrown.com
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At 5 PM Edward Hasbrouck returns - “Computers, Freedom, and Privacy”.
What’s next for me? In addition to testifying this week in Sacramento
against a harebrained scheme to withhold drivers licenses and state ID
cards if a DMV contractor’s facial recognition robot mistakes your photo
for that of anyone else in the state (and thus prevent you from flying or
travelling by Amtrak unless you have a passport), I’ll be in Washington
the first week in June for the “Computers, Freedom, and Privacy”
conference. I hope to see some of you at the conference, at Hostelling
International in downtown DC where I’m staying, or sharing stories at the
“Travelers Circle” on Wednesday evening, June 3rd, at the Kabab House at
1108 K Street, N.W. (catty-corner from the hostel). Most importantly, what’s next for your travel plans, dear readers,? I’ve been getting a flood of press releases from travel companies with their
predictions for whether people or not people will still be travelling this
summer in spite of the economic crisis. I’m not sure if they are trying to
persuade potential investors to lend them (more) money to fund their
(continuing) losses, persuade themselves that there’s light at the end of
the tunnel, or persuade the public not to worry about money, and to take
an expensive vacation, because “everyone else is doing it”. Should you believe these press releases? Should you care? Most of the propaganda about, “People are still travelling, and we expect
a busy summer,” is wishful thinking on the part of the travel industry.
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