There seems to be an entire sub-genre of books about black fathers who are nowhere to be found. Jeez – – there’s a ton of these things, and I can’t get my marvelous Solid State into print! It just ain’t fair!
I’m Right Here!
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First Five of Solid State
I’ve been very pleased at the reception of my novel Solid State, which I’ve been publishing in a serialized form over on Substack. Folks seem to like getting a bite-sized chapter each day. I’ve broken up this monster of a tale into 73 (!!!) chapters, which will be emailed for free every weekday until the end of the year.
If you want to catch up, please do so – – here are the links to the first five chapters, all of which tumbled out this past week.
A Chapter Opens
Welcome to the big week, everyone! Yes, it’s the week when, for the first time in four years, the overlords at the Federal Reserve will deign to grant the public an interest rate cut of an either meaningless 25 basis points or an equally as meaningless 50 basis points. This will be the start of a long series of cuts which, over the course of time, the public will eventually realize are a desperate bid to cure a failing economy as opposed to some kind of gift from the mendacious and self-serving Jerome Powell.
Of all the big events that we face on a regular basis, such as jobs reports and CPI reports, I find the FOMC Day to be the most annoying of them all, because the market is locked in a state of suspended animation for 2.5 days until it happens mid-Wednesday, and then all holy hell breaks loose, both up and down, after Powell issues his release and, much worse, yammers on at the podium.
Typically, the market rallies as Powell is doing his little dance, invariably doing a swan dive the next day once the booze wears off. It’s always a tremendous relief when one of these eight scheduled FOMC performances is totally done.
(more…)Solid State Substack
In 1982, I wrote my first book, and I went on to write two dozen more. All of these were put out by large publishing houses, but all of them were non-fiction works about computers and trading. Now, I have finished my first novel, Solid State, but instead of going about the normal route, I am going to publish it myself on Substack, releasing one (short!) chapter every weekday starting on September 16th and running until the end of 2024. I hope you will subscribe and enjoy it, as there will be no charge for doing so. I look forward to hearing what you think!
Flourishing Fiction
I was pleasantly surprised to see this. Hey, maybe there’s hope about my little problem!
