Archive for June, 2008

  iUniverse is featuring author Michael Mehas and his Star title, Stolen Boy, on its Web site through the middle of the summer. Mehas discusses his book and Jesse James Hollywood, one of the youngest men to ever appear on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, in his first “Author Talk” interview, available at iUniverse.com. As [...]

We’re getting’ closer. Jesse James Hollywood  whose murder case was dramatized in the 2006 movie “Alpha Dog” and the 2008 award-winning novel “Stolen Boy,” goes to trial in February. On Thursday, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Brian Hill set a February 19th, 2009 trial date for Hollywood, who could face the death penalty if convicted [...]

  There has not been an execution in the United States for a crime that did not also involve the death of the victim in 44 years. And the United States Supreme Court has indicated there won’t be another under its watch.   Which is good news to Patrick Kennedy, the 43-year-old man who was [...]

  There are alternatives to the death penalty. From a universal perspective, we don’t have to commit to killing those accused of unacceptable crimes. Here’s another excerpt of alternatives as provided by healer Ron J. Oberon. The following writing is captured from pages 293/294 in Book I “Our Earth And Beyond”. The Governor will not stop [...]

Very strange indeed. As I battle the inner and outer demons of life in trying to bring awareness of the need to change our collective consciousness and desire for revenge against people like Jesse James Hollywood, I meet the most amazing people. One of them was in the form of a healer by the name [...]

The kid had just barely turned fourteen before committing the worst of crimes-the murder of another child. We don’t really know for sure why Brandon McInerney did what he’s accused of doing, but we do know this: fifteen-year-old, Larry King, who was Brandon’s classmate, is dead. And he’s never going to come back, no matter what [...]

IPPY Awards 2008

Terrific article this week in the Dallas Morning News regarding Book Expo America, the book event of the year that took place this past weekend. Thousands of authors, and editing and publishing experts, and book fans filled the Los Angeles Convention Center with the latest in books and publishing technology. I got to talk to [...]