Larry Seeley's Blog

The Greening of America

It starts with a simple proposition: the United States spends more on Defense than all other government programs combined, not including Pensions, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. We also spend more than the next seven countries combined, including China and Russia.

The defense budget is closing in on $900 billion. Perhaps up to ten percent of the workforce is employed directory or indirectly by the domestic defense industry. In other words, it’s a huge slice o...

Old Man Cook

My friends and I took off on one of our missions. I was twelve, and the woods and fields behind our house provided excitement for boys our age. We entered the trees at the top of a deep ravine and crept down the side, using branches for hand-holds and rocks as stepping stones.

A small creek ran through the valley at the bottom, and we stopped to roll up our pants and wade in the water, searching for crayfish. A kid had to be careful because the stones in the bottom were moss-cove...

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The Placebo Effect has been selected as aWinner at BookBuzz. Thank you for voting.

The Placebo Effect has been selected as a Finalist at BookBuzz. The winner will be decided by popular vote, so if you’re a fan, log to http://bookbzz.com/the-placebo-effect-by-larry-seeley/after February 1, 2015, and cast your vote.

Judge at the Writer’s Digest 2nd Annual Awards:

…I did love the scene setting in this one. The author did a great job of painting a picture and taking us on an incredible journey with Jack and Darlene. Jack is a great leading man. He’s clever and downright likeable. I loved his point of view and felt like I was right by his side from start to finish.

The author is definitely talented when it comes to characterization. And, while I enjoyed the plot, I wasn’t blown away by it. True, there was mur...

My latest novel, The Placebo Effect, is now available in Kindle version only at Amazon.com. Print and other electronic media will be available in February.

The world is in bad shape, and in many cases, there’s little we (the United States) can do about it. What we can do is get our own house in order. The basis for a rebirth of American can be achieved legislatively. It will require political courage, but the results will echo throughout our entire socio-economic system and may give the inflamed countries of the world hope. The following outlines steps I believe we should take to accomplish this:

Sometimes it gets frustrating as a writer to know that your novels win more awards than sales. This is the latest:

Publisher recently announced a price adjustment for The Border Wars Trilogy. All e-books will now cost $2.99 each.

This is a strong buy for your holiday reading. If you like suspense and mystery delivered by a novelist who knows how to create an exciting script, order Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves now. The book is my Buddy Larry Seeley’s award winning suspense novel, boy what a real page turner. Once I got caught up in the action I could not put the book down.

An army veteran, Larry who speaks, reads and writes fluent Arabic, is a former CEO of the gaming firm that built the first Native casino in Maritime...