I have lectured on the history of stage mentalism, mindreading, and Spiritualism at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, at the Magic Circle in London, at the annual meetings of the Psychic Entertainers ...показать большеI have lectured on the history of stage mentalism, mindreading, and Spiritualism at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, at the Magic Circle in London, at the annual meetings of the Psychic Entertainers Association, and at other venues. I have created routines that psychics have used to "prove" they are genuine -- which created some interesting issues.i have written prize-winning short stories and have had one book, The Indescribable Phenomenon, the biography of Anna Eva Fay, the woman Harry Houdini called "the greatest female mystifier", almost make it as a film for Walden Media, but in the end the book, along with another project I was involved in, didn't make the final production cut.A retired high executive, I have done business in 24 countries, and use that experience as background for my fiction. As I discussed at last year's Men of Mystery conference, in both my fiction and non-fiction the paranormal is fake. I enjoy reading of vampires (I have sat on the Bram Stoker Memorial Bench in Whitby, England, on a bluff overlooking Whitby Harbor with Whitby Abby off to the right). Dracula does run through your mind sitting there. I have also traveled in Romania, briefly into Transylvania; but even then, my paranormal remains fake.показать меньше