by Tom Hogan | May 9, 2025 | Inspiration, biohacking, crime, DNA, genetic engineering, hard science fiction, mystery, Personal, science fiction, Screenplays, silicon valley, So You Want to Be a Writer, Teaching, Writing
As many of you know, our book, The Forever Factor, had its genesis in a conversation with Jim Goetz, one of the most successful (and despite his modesty, famous) venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. We had long wanted to write a book together, so we got together to...
by Tom Hogan | Sep 1, 2022 | Writing, Personal, So You Want to Be a Writer, Teaching
For better or worse, with my previous three novels I’ve known the ending before I started writing. I appreciate those authors who say they just start writing and go where the characters take them. I’m not one of them. I know where the novel ends and usually where it...
by Tom Hogan | Feb 21, 2022 | Inspiration, Personal
(This is my last political blog for a while, but I want to address a few items that came up in the wake of my Bulwark Op-Ed and Lincoln Project interview. Then I’m on to promoting The Empty Confessional.) In the previous blog, I wrote disparagingly about those who...
by Tom Hogan | Jan 20, 2022 | Personal
We just arrived at our cabin in Durango, CO and I did something I haven’t done in decades: shoveled snow. It wasn’t for recreation but survival: I needed to clear a path from our car to our front door, with fifty yards of 2-3 foot drifts blocking my way. It was that...
