CONSPIRACY THEORIES

I know I've touched on the Cold War espionage and racial themes of my novel "SPOOK: CONFESSIONS OF A PSYCHIC SPY." But I haven't really touched on the conspiracy theory element of my book.

What makes me think of this is I was contacted on Christmas day by someone who had purchased my novel on line. The individual claimed to have studied REMOTE VIEWING (a central element of my book) with the army. This person even mentioned having met the late INGO SWANN, a renown psychic who I believe had worked for the CIA's STARGATE PROGRAM (psychic spies). 

The interesting thing is this person lives in Los Angeles (where I currently reside). 

Originally, it was after talking to someone I knew who had been a CIA agent, that I decided to move forward and write my book. My contact assured me that the CIA's psychic spy program had been real and that some of the operators they had working for them were downright spooky.

While I was writing my book, I tried to contact people who had been involved with government psychic spy programs during the Cold War. A former Interpol agent who had been stationed in Munich during the old days, was even trying to put me in contact with a former member of the STASI (the East German Secret Police). I finally put out a posting worldwide on Craigslist of all places. I was contacted by a number of interesting people. Some I suspected were spying on me (they wanted to know if anyone else had contacted me and, if so, who).

It was a very paranoid phase for me during the development of my book. 

So... I'd like to go on the record and say here and now...

I BELIEVE JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY WAS KILLED BY A JOINT CIA/ MAFIA TASK FORCE KNOWN AS PROJECT MONGOOSE, AFTER JFK SAID HE WOULD NO LONGER TRY TO OVERTHROW CASTRO (THE OBJECTIVE OF PROJECT MONGOOSE). LEE HARVEY OSWALD DID NOT ACT ALONE (IF AT ALL). 

I BELIEVE MARILYN MONROE WAS GIVEN A DRUG OVERDOSE FROM THE MAFIA IN A CIA CONDONED OPERATION, BECAUSE SHE KNEW TOO MUCH ABOUT THE CIA/ MAFIA OPERATIONS.

I BELIEVE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS MURDERED BY THE CIA. NOTE: MLK WAS ONLY KILLED AFTER HE GAVE THE SPEECH TELLING YOUNG BLACK MEN NOT TO FIGHT IN THE WAR IN VIETNAM.

The Marilyn Monroe murder is covered in my novel. JFK and MLK's assassinations will be covered in subsequent novels in my SPOOK series.

My novel may be fiction, but I'm writing these historical events as I believe they had happened. 

To this day, the cover-up of these crimes continues to go on.

Checkpoint Charlie

     

THE GAME'S AFOOT

The game is definitely afoot as Sherlock Holmes was apt to say. 

"SPOOK: CONFESSIONS OF A PSYCHIC SPY" has been attracting a lot of interest. I know there are a few favorable reviews being written and hopefully soon I will be able to announce some good news about the novel coming to select book stores.

But right now I have something else on my mind. 

It was recently relayed to me from someone in my Hollywood circle, that I am an arrogant writer for not round-tabling "SPOOK" with other writers and taking their notes. This is a common practice in the Hollywood screenplay world. After nearly every meeting, everybody and their mother has notes for the writer. It's a form of writing by committee to make your script as commercial as humanly possible. 

I've never been a big fan of writing by committee, other than making changes for budgetary reasons or to further the director's vision. I wrote my novel with a young fresh editor because I wanted a young fresh look at a novel that, while set in the past, expounds on themes that are very relevant in America today. 

When I decided to start my company BROOKLYN APACHE PRESS I did so because I wanted to have freedom as an artist to write my novels my way. I also want my voice to be the voice of the unrepresented audiences out there. I want my lead characters to be Black or Spanish or Chinese or  Middle Easterner or female or old or Gay or young. In Hollywood, virtually every script is written for a white male lead. 

What a lot of people in Hollywood don't get is that I'M A FAN OF WHAT I WRITE! I never wrote a sci-fi script because sci-fi was in. I never wrote a horror pilot because "THE WALKING DEAD" is a runaway hit. I write my stories, whether script or novel, as a fan. I'm writing the kind of stuff I want to see. 

I think that makes me selfish more than arrogant.

I love SPOOK. I am a fan of it. Every single word is exactly the way I wanted. This is my voice. It's not going to be everybody's cup of tea. I don't expect it to be. But if you are a fan of this genre, I believe you will be entertained. 

I also hope it makes you think... and feel. 

If it does, then I've done my job.