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Evolution of “The Pharm House”

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:September 20, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/Medical Suspense/Thriller/The Pharm House/Uncategorized

How did I come up with the story and title for The Pharm House?  My first attempt at writing a novel length story was during graduate school. It was science…

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The Borgias

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:August 25, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/History/Uncategorized

  Speaking of Toxicologist (as in Nicholas Harding in The Pharm House), any aficionados of The Borgias out there? As a toxicologist, of course I knew who the Borgias were…

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What is a Toxicologist?

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:August 11, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/Medical Suspense/Thriller/Uncategorized

Nicholas Harding, the protagonist in my first novel, The Pharm House, is a toxicologist by training, like myself. When I inform most people that I’m a toxicologist, I often receive…

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The Power of Poisons

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:July 18, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/Medical Suspense/Thriller/Uncategorized

A couple of years ago, when I saw that the American Museum of Natural History in New York, was running an exhibit entitled, “The Power of Poisons”, I just had…

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Cute and Venomous

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:July 12, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/Uncategorized

“Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.” - Paracelsus When most of us think of venomous animals,…

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The Toxicology of The Terror

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:June 26, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/Suspense/Thriller Novel/Uncategorized

Above – HMS Terror shipwreck In my previous blog (The Terror of The Terror), I shared with you my minor obsession with the doomed saga of The Franklin Expedition in…

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The Terror of The Terror

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:June 22, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/Book/Suspense/Thriller Novel/Uncategorized

              Have you ever experienced a story, be it a television show or series, a movie or novel that gets inside your head and…

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What Is Strauss-Howe Generational Theory?

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:May 30, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/Psychology

Strauss-Howe Generational Theory is another esoteric concept that I stumbled across while doing research for a storyline. It’s a little complicated, so stick with me. The theory was created by…

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What Is Ericksonian Hypnosis?

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:May 15, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/Medical Mystery/Psychology

Under conditions of traditional hypnosis, the client is fully aware that they are being hypnotized. You have all see the movie or television scene where the powerful, authoritative hypnotist implants…

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Dark, Malevolent Personality Traits

Dark, Malevolent Personality Traits

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:April 26, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/Literary Links/Medical Mystery/Psychology

Let’s hope that you don’t know any of these “dark” types, unless you are a mystery/thriller author, in which case you need to get to know them intimately. You will…

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