The Double Human takes detective Tom Wilner on a bizarre chase of a serial killer as things in Florida of the future get worse.

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http://www.floridamagazine.com/articles/intriguing2.html

21 Intriguing Floridians
Florida Monthly spotlights 21 Floridians, excelling in fields from public service and film to technology and health, who intrigue us. They mirror the unique demographic and cultural makeup of the Sunshine State.

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It’s just a police story set in Florida about twenty years in the future. There are a number of phrases like Urban Fantasy or Speculative Fiction but it’s a crime story.

This is my effort to try something new and perhaps a little less harsh than Literature and Lead.

Feel free to let me know what you think.

Here’s a direct link if you prefer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsumD8NefKs

Literature and lead

It is also on the Naked Authors Blog. Naked Authors Blog

Give it a look and tell me what you think.

Thanks,

Jim B.

I’m thrilled to have won the award. I am especially happy because the jury was composed of librarians. You guys know how I feel about librarians.

I am speaking at a number of libraries across the state during the entire year.

I will also attend a number of book festivals outside of Florida.

Thank you also to all of you who came out during the Field of Fire tour. I loved seeing everyone.

Best,

Jim B

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This past week I attended a FEMA course on critical incident command. I was not necessarily looking forward to an academic class after a long and fun vacation. The class was to help me do my job when the next hurricane ripped through Florida. To my surprise and relief the class was taught by an interesting, retired Royal Canadian Mounted policeman with a real sense of humor. He turned what could have been coma inducing subject matter into a useful tool that may help the next time I’m called up for a disaster.

I started thinking about my other experiences with citizens of our neighbor to the north and realized the country turns out some really cool people.

I once worked a case that required me to travel to Toronto. The Toronto cops never let me feel alone. They took me out every night and I learned an important lesson: Canadian beer has more alcohol in it than American beer.

One of the best crime fiction websites, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, is operated by the lovely Sarah Weinman. A woman who has a greater knowledge of crime literature than any five writers. She can hold her beer too.

I just met writer Jeff Buick who reinforced the notion of a good natured, funny Canadian without having to change his basic personality.

These are simple basic examples but it’s one of the stereotypes I believe in. This and the one about women finding heavyset middle-aged men irresistible. Well, maybe that’s more of a fantasy than a stereotype

I’ll stand by my original statement: I like Canadians.