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I grew up as a child.

Voracious reading parents, a father who went through 10 books a week, and especially a mother with more articles published than I care to count and an award-winning speechwriter, said I would never be lonely as long as I had a good book. I soon found books were more interesting than most of my friends, until I discovered girls really are different!

I've lived all over the country: Ski-bummed in VT; studied music in Boston, went to Los Angeles to be a rock 'n roll star, then had to pay the rent. What's up with that? So I sold door-to-door, sold cars, advertising, liscensed investment broker, telemarketed; worked oil fields in Texas; wrote grant and financing proposals in Pennsylvania; hung out in Hawaii. A staff writer for a now defunct magazine in New York, contract technical writer--software manuals, business profiles and other very boring stuff. In the mortgage business for ten years in CT where I made a fortune, then lost it (sigh).

On reflection, I realized I've spent a life pursuing the meaningless, though the journey did compile warehouses packed with multiple lifetimes of experience.

Now, here I am, on a beach in FL, finally pursuing something of meaning and worth, and doing what I always knew I was born to do, but other stuff, like life, had to get out of the way first.

Thank you very much.

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The Beholder

James Knight

The Beholder is an archaic fortune telling machine whose answers come true, and the consequences of that miracle on the hero's life.


The Beholder is a psychological suspense/thriller of capture and escape.

In 1987 Los Angeles, Daniel Hogan discovers an antique fortune telling machine that gives a veiled answer to his impetuous question. When he finds the answer it gave unbelievably came true, Daniel tests it further, resulting in a gambling win against seemingly infinitesimal odds. Daniel then slips into a world of obsession, reclusiveness, and addiction which slowly but ultimately brings him to the brink of madness.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, the young and beautiful Megan Robison knows The Beholder only too well, after having nearly lost her own soul to it when just a young girl. She senses its resurrection, and embarks on a journey to hunt down The Beholder and destroy it once and for all.

The Beholder weaves its tale in the same disguised manner as the answers it gives. The story's power lies in knowing you have the answers, and whether having those answers makes you an almighty, or a slave. It strikes a line between being given the ultimate gift, and the realization of how such a gift can ultimately destroy you.


 

Pimping Money: Confessions of ....

James Knight

How did the mortgage crisis and global economic meltdown REALLY occur?


A shocking literary memoir based on the author's more than ten years experience in the mortgage industry. It's the first behind the scenes account of the subprime lending disaster from a first person, boots on the ground perspective. Written under the pseudonym Richard Thorpe, this is sharp, humorous, and poignant narrative, offering a clear, and extremely personal, take on the many hidden, and heretofore unknown, factors that contributed to the crisis. Told in a style both caustic and humorous, easy and personable, with a narrative voice reminiscent of Jordan Belfort's bestselling The Wolf of Wall Street, PIMPINGMONEY exposes the outrageous actions of brokers and their loan officers, the subprime lending banks, and especially the borrowers themselves, to get mortgage loans submitted, approved, closed, and funded.

PIMPING MONEY focuses not on the actions of Wall Street's big league power players, but rather on the heretofore under-Explored actions and responsibilities of the Main Street money men and their clients.

 

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Thank you Stewart, you're right, of course, accents are difficult to portray just right. view book

I wrote 604 days ago

Thank you Liz -- I've had this compared to 'Big" many times. However, that is a story about the consequence of one wish being granted. This is about having the answer to any question. and what that would do to someone. view book

I wrote 604 days ago

Hello Dan -- I was pulled right in with the beginning. I am a former Clancey and W.E.B. Griffen fan (regrettably I have to say former fan -- they've become so full of themselves which made their work now so tedious) and much of this rang very true for me up to a point. And that point is where ... view book

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