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Father’s Day History

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:June 19, 2020
  • Post category:Uncategorized

Father’s Day is a special day of the year that we celebrate fathers around the world. Even though this is a holiday that we celebrate every year, there are few…

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How to Write a Suspenseful Thriller Novel

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:December 4, 2019
  • Post category:Suspense/Thriller/Suspense/Thriller Novel/Thriller/Uncategorized/Writers

In case you didn’t know, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). With authors all over the country participating, it got us thinking - how does one go about writing…

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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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Character Building: Psychopath vs Sociopath

Character Building: Psychopath vs Sociopath

  • Post author:Bill Powers
  • Post published:April 3, 2018
  • Post category:Author Bill Powers/Bill Powers/Medical Mystery/Psychology/Uncategorized

In recent decades, storytellers through movies, novels and television have put two seemingly sexy and fascinating pop psychology terms into our popular vocabulary – psychopath and sociopath. Both of these…

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