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Thriller
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The Agency - DDD Inc. is a very unique novel. It was written in a serial format, with short chapters that are easy to read. The best way to describe it is The Office meets The Net. It blends a humorous style with the techno-thriller genre. For the cover, I wanted something that represented the subject well and my cover designer came up with the perfect theme. Check it out below!
Historical Fiction
Stepping Into the 1880s and 1920s
Writing Historical Fiction is research-heavy. If you want to accurately capture the time period, little details matter. Currently, I’m writing two different serial stories which require researching two different periods in history.
The Crimson Plains is a “coming to America” novel about immigration during the 1880s. It is available now in the US on Kindle Vella, but the first book in the series will be available as a novel in early 2025. In this book, we begin in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. A family makes the difficult decision to sell the family farm and travel by ship to the settle on the plains in the United States. They travel through New York, Chicago and Kansas City on their way. Here’s a picture of the train depot in Kansas City at that time.
The other story, Letters From Urkhammer, is a classic ghost town story about a town that disappeared. The mystery here is whether or not it ever existed. This story is also available in the US on Kindle Vella as I’m writing it, but will be released as a separate book in 2025. I plan to make it free to you, all of my newsletter subscribers. :) It is a part of the Kindle Velly competition for best new stories. If you want to help, please take the time to click the link above and read as many episodes as you enjoy.
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Non-Fiction
Excess Deaths
Trigger Warning! This is a dark subject and unlike the fiction above, is 100% true. :(
Something has been severely wrong in the world over the last three years. People are dying at a level far above normal. That's what excess deaths means. You may have seen the term at the start of the pandemic. In March of 2020, there were reports from Italy and other places of massive amounts of deaths. The excess deaths were extreme in those first few months in several places around the world.
Normally, when you see a period of high excess deaths, it is followed by a period with fewer deaths, especially as it relates to a disease or virus that attacks those who are weak or with compromised immune systems. Statistically, this is what you would expect. You lose a large number of people at one time, so afterwards there just aren't as many people left who are likely to die, whether from old age or illness.
That's not what we've seen over the last few years. In the United States, our excess deaths have remained high since the pandemic. In fact, we haven't seen a single month where the number of deaths wasn't in excess. When you break it down even further, there hasn't even been a single week when it wasn't high. My friends, this isn't normal.
Something continues to kill many, many people at a level far beyond what we've ever seen before. It isn't just in the US either. Dr. John Campbell, a retired UK professor of impeccable credentials, has been analyzing the data as it becomes available. If you have an interest in knowing more, please follow his YouTube channel, which does a wonderful job of breaking down the information so anyone can understand.
He recently examined excess deaths in a variety of countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Denmark. All of these countries have continued to see high excess deaths into 2024. The data from many Asian countries shows the same thing. South Korea, Japan and Taiwan have actually seen much higher excess death rates since 2021. It fluctuated at a more normal level in 2020, but since 2021 it has gone up and hasn't gone back down. A few countries in Europe have returned to normal. Hungary, Poland and Sweden are no longer seeing these numbers in 2023 and 2024.
Perhaps more disturbing is the numbers of excess deaths in the younger populations. If you filter for 0-44 year olds, excess deaths in the US remain high. Every week of 2023 has seen 316-968 more people die in this age range than we would have expected. From March of 2020 onward this is true. Not a single week in which more 0-44 year olds haven't died more than the normal statistical averages.
If you cycle it down to 0-24 year olds, the trend continues, and it is accelerating there. Unlike other age groups, this age bracket didn't see excessive deaths during 2020. It makes sense, they are typically the healthiest of the healthy and the pandemic was especially hard on the elderly and infirm, not 0-24 year olds.
Unfortunately, in early 2021, around week 14 something changed. 0-24 year olds started dying and they haven't stopped. Since that time, they've seen a 42% excess in all cause mortality. Just to make it clear, since week 14 of 2021, a period of 40+ months, 42% more 0-24 year olds are dying than should be dying. This isn't normal, and it is unprecedented.
The data from insurance companies confirms the same trend. They are paying out life insurance policies for young healthy people at a tremendous rate. The third quarter of 2021 saw a 40 percent rise in death claim benefits, 19 percent of which were non-Covid deaths. The last two years have seen record-setting payouts. Not the kind of record they want to be setting.
So the burning question is what is killing these people? This can't possibly continue, right? You wouldn't think, but it is statistically impossible for it to have continued for this long, based on all previous data and historical studies. There are people asking these questions, but not enough of them. In fact, the CDC on September 27th, 2023, has removed this data from its publicly available data set. At a time when we should be studying the problem more, they are making it more difficult to track.
If you would like to know the answers, I suggest you check out Dr. John Campbell's YouTube channel, the research of Edward Dowd, and follow an account on X called The Ethical Skeptic. They were some of the first asking these questions and seem legitimately committed to finding the truth.