The Florida In My Novels Is Not

I Got Overwhelmed By The Magnitude Of The Celebrity Culture In America. My Background Is As A News Journalist, And Newsrooms In The Us Are Shrinking - Investigation Teams Are Being Terminated Or Shrunk On Newspapers All Around The Country. The One Aspect That's Expanded Is Coverage Of Celebrity Culture.

There's This False Notion That This Is A Regional Phenomenon, When In Fact Every State In The Union Has Hardcore Rednecks. No Exceptions.

Disney Is Just Disney. It's A Company That's Very Good At What It Does - Controlling And Promoting An Image - Until Something Happens That It Can't Control Or Cover Up.

I Still Do A Weekly Opinion Column For The Miami Herald, And It's Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel. Rotten Fish.

Ironically, I Come From A Family Of Lawyers - My Dad, My Grandfather, And Now My Oldest Son. And Some Of My Very Best Friends Are Lawyers, Though They Don't Resemble The Ones That Appear In My Novels.