As a journalist, many of my friends and colleagues publish books. It happens all the time. Most of them stick to non-fiction, which is the more familiar and therefore less dangerous option.
But recently, a few of them have ventured over to fiction, which is a tricky business for those who have made their initial career in journalism.
Speaking from my short and only marginally successful time in Hollywood, this kind of transition is easier imagined than executed.
Writing is a dangerous profession, period, full stop. The following four writers have tested the limits that separate fiction from non-fiction and I salute them for that.
Also I know this much — these are four fantastic people, with great minds and talent, so you might want to check out their work.
Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain: Stories of Innocence Lost by G.Pascal Zachary.
“In his debut fiction collection, Zachary stretches his imagination and pulls off a literary adventure about lives that are by turns messy and heartbreaking and glorious. Taking the reader to different corners of the world, Zachary’s stories are woven together with a journalist’s eye for detail and a storyteller’s knack for invention.” – Katie Hafner, author, The Boys, a Novel
Thorn City by Pamela Statz.
Suspected murder, eclectic food trucks, and artisanal cocaine: just another day in Thorn City. It’s the night of the Rose City Ripe for Disruption gala—a gathering of Portland’s elite. Dressed to kill in sparkling minidresses, best friends Lisa and Jamie attend as “paid to party” girls. They plan an evening of fake flirtations, karaoke playlists, and of course, grazing the catering. Past and present collide when Lisa stumbles across Ellen, a ruthless politician who also happens to be Lisa’s estranged mother. Awkward… When Lisa was sixteen, Ellen had her kidnapped and taken to the Lost Lake Academy—a notorious boarding school for troubled youth.
What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
“What Kind of Paradise is a twisty, sharp coming-of-age story for our strange techno-utopian times. It brims with suspense and family secrets, all the while asking big questions about the cost of progress. Janelle Brown writes with clarity and prescience about inheritance, technology, and moral gray areas. I raced through this.”—Rachel Khong, New York Times bestselling author of Real Americans.
The Prometheus Formula: Book 1 - Twilight of the Awakened by Terry J. Scott
As part of an experimental artificial intelligence program, a team of young scientists accidentally discover a hidden meaning to Einstein’s formula for general relativity, and realize that it could hold the key to modern science’s most fundamental mystery: the “Planck Wall”. And, consequently, to the origin of the universe. But they soon become the target of a secret order with medieval roots, determined to preserve the inviolability of the last religious dogmas. Hunted by the order’s killers, wanted for murders they didn’t commit, the group’s survivors must disappear in an America that’s tipping into chaos and dictatorship.
HEADLINES:
Trump Threatens to Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing, Minutes Before Xi Meeting (NYT)
Trump rebukes Putin for testing new missiles, tells him to end the war (WP)
Governor Newsom sues Trump Administration for illegally withholding SNAP food benefits (gov.ca)
Dangerous redistricting: How the Supreme Court could nullify the power of your vote (The Hill)
Fed Cuts Rates as Officials Worry About Labor Market (NYT)
Trump administration shakes up ICE leadership across the country in major overhaul (AP)
3 words in Letitia James’ mortgage contract could doom the fraud case against her (Politico)
“I Was Contaminated”: New Study Reveals Widespread Pesticide Exposure (Mother Jones)
US government allowed and even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China (AP)
Trump-appointed acting US attorney disqualified from cases for ‘unlawfully serving’, rules judge (Guardian)
Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt (AP)
US Senate passes bill to terminate Trump tariffs against Brazil (Reuters)
S Korea announces lowering of tariffs as part of new US trade deal (BBC)
At least 64 people died in Rio de Janeiro’s most deadly police operation ever, which targeted a major gang days before the city hosts global events related to the United Nations climate summit known as COP30. (Reuters)
Why did Israel launch air strikes on Gaza, then ‘resume’ truce? (Al Jazeera)
How Data Centers Actually Work (Wired)
Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba after leaving trail of destruction in Jamaica (WP)
Messages in bottle written by World War I soldiers in 1916 found on Australian beach: “Absolutely stunned” (CBS)
How the 19th-Century Opium War Shapes Xi’s Trade Clash With Trump (NYT)
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ (Guardian)
Federal judges admitted their offices used AI to draft factually inaccurate documents. (WP)
The era of mega AI layoffs is here (Business Insider)
The AI job cuts are here - or are they? (BBC)
Parents Feuding With At Least One Aunt At All Times (Onion)
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