E. C. (Gene) Ayres Blogspot

I was raised in a Quaker family in which it was improper to 'blow your own horn.' This is a terrible handicap, for someone who works in a competitive field in which there are now several million books on the market, and I must somehow elbow my way to the top of the list, which is all but impossible. And yet what a small investment it is to purchase a book! I visit coffee shops that are frequented by people on a daily basis, busy working their Macs over a hot latte and bagel. Both of which, combined, cost well over the price of a Kindle. Yet how many hours of pleasure will a latte give you? One at the most. Whereas a good book will give you ten times that, or more, and you can repeat it any time for free. What a deal! So here is my plea and my pitch: please take a look at my website . Or visit my book site on Amazon.com . See for yourself. Read the five star reviews. Read the blurb. Read a few pages. A lot of work and a lot of years went into my new book Red Tide . I think the...

I was raised in a Quaker family, and grew up protesting nuclear weapons in Times Square back in the Fifties (remember 'Ban the Bomb'? That was me, a naive six year old, holding one of those signs). When I graduated from Syracuse University in 1968, the war in Vietnam was raging, and so was my generation. We truly believed we could change the world, bring peace and prosperity and justice to all, and—well, you know how all that turned out. Two decades later, after working so hard to change the world with so little success, I finally concluded that presenting the “truth” as I saw it didn't always work, if ever. Sometimes, I was beginning to realize, good storytelling may be a better way to reach people than on-the-nose reality. Or even gently presented reality laced with humor, the way the late great Art Buchwald mastered this skill with his political satires. Having taken my best shot at doing good without much success, I decided to try my hand at doing well, or at least mak...