Blog Post Archives - Alan Jacobson https://alanjacobson.com/category/blog-post/ Official website of USA Today bestselling author Alan Jacobson Fri, 16 Apr 2021 05:12:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://alanjacobson.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-alan-jacobson-site-identity-600x600-1-32x32.jpg Blog Post Archives - Alan Jacobson https://alanjacobson.com/category/blog-post/ 32 32 Win a free copy! And help choose the new cover https://alanjacobson.com/blog-post/vote-lost-girl/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 02:25:31 +0000 https://alanjacobson.com/?p=5730 The time has finally come! No, not your vaccine appointment—the July 27 release of THE LOST GIRL, which introduces new characters to the Alan Jacobson canon, including Mickey Keller, a fixer with a complicated past. Keller finds himself conflicted regarding what his heart tells him to do versus what his boss orders him to do. […]

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]]> Is America systemically racist? https://alanjacobson.com/blog-post/systemically-racist/ Sun, 24 Jan 2021 01:36:11 +0000 https://alanjacobson.com/?p=5717 I have some experience with racism, including growing up in Queens, NY, during some racially volatile times. I experienced racism firsthand—and was at the short end of black hate against whites (see my bio for some background). I lived through “white flight” and forced integration (“busing”) during my junior high and high school years. Importing […]

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]]> 9/11: When Cops Were Heroes https://alanjacobson.com/blog-post/when-cops-were-heroes/ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:52:27 +0000 https://www.alanjacobson.com/?p=5552 Nineteen years ago today, my brother called me in the early morning hours on the west coast and told me to turn the on the TV. He said a plane had flown into one of the twin towers. Having grown up in the city, and worked from time to time in the towers with my […]

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]]> A Legend Passes https://alanjacobson.com/blog-post/a-legend-passes/ Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:03:23 +0000 https://www.alanjacobson.com/?p=5527 I met Tom Seaver in 1969. I was just a kid in New York City and he was doing a promotional appearance at a furniture store in Manhattan. My dad had a business in the city and we had just come from a job, so we arrived late. Just about everyone had left except for […]

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]]> Black and white, black and blue https://alanjacobson.com/blog-post/blackandblue/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 04:25:23 +0000 https://www.alanjacobson.com/?p=5477 I have been digesting the events of the past week with a heavy heart, deep sadness, and tremendous disappointment. Heavy heart for the family of George Floyd. Deep sadness for our country—we are supposed to lead the world in civil rights, in the rule of law, in democratic values, in free speech. Tremendous disappointment—in local […]

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]]> The Brilliant Minds at PG&E https://alanjacobson.com/blog-post/the-brilliant-minds-at-pge/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 01:47:25 +0000 https://www.alanjacobson.com/?p=5453 Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) came up with a brilliant idea: rather than causing or contributing to damaging fires when the weather turns dry and windy, they will shut off power to over 800,000 of its customers.
Q: How smart was this? Did they give sufficient notice?
A: Not very, and very little.

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]]> Have you heard? Authors are making (a lot) less money. Here’s what it really means. https://alanjacobson.com/blog-post/author-income/ Sat, 07 Sep 2019 08:46:50 +0000 https://www.alanjacobson.com/?p=5420 Author income has dropped to a dramatic low, a development that has forced writers, particularly those of fiction, to change the way they work--and live.

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]]> Governor Newsom, why should I bother voting? https://alanjacobson.com/blog-post/why-bother-voting/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 07:06:02 +0000 https://www.alanjacobson.com/?p=5361 California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced plans to sign an executive order suspending the death penalty. While there hasn’t been an execution in the state since 2006, there are over 700 inmates on death row. How serious is the governor about this? He ordered that the equipment used for executions be dismantled—and photographs emerged today […]

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]]> Current Trends in Publishing: Where do authors go from here? https://alanjacobson.com/blog-post/trends-in-publishing/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:52:50 +0000 https://www.alanjacobson.com/?p=5303 If there’s one article you read about publishing this year, this should be it ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN SUSPENSE MAGAZINE (November/December 2018 issue) By Alan Jacobson and Peter Hildick-Smith USA Today bestselling author Alan Jacobson has been writing novels professionally for 25 years, and during that quarter century he’s seen a tectonic shift—or rather, multiple shifts—in […]

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]]> David Wright: dealt a hand, forced to play it https://alanjacobson.com/blog-post/david-wright/ Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:02:55 +0000 https://www.alanjacobson.com/?p=4849 I’ve been a Mets fan for 49 years. (I feel old just typing that.) I’ve seen scores of players come and go. Some made their mark, while most didn’t. David Wright obviously did—not only in the record books but in the hearts of baseball fans, Mets fans, and his fellow players.

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