I’ll be appearing next at the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference in Fort Bragg, CA. That’s about 150 Miles north of San Francisco, right on the ocean. For someone from Tucson, it will be a cooling off of 45 degrees F. … Continue reading
Why would anyone want to be a public defender? The pay is terrible, most of the clients are poor, uneducated and probably guilty; there’s no time to prepare, the caseload is overwhelming, and failure is the most likely outcome. Who chooses … Continue reading
Cold Case and True Crime I’ll be congealing out of writerly fog for the next Arizona Mystery Writers’ meeting in three weeks. We’ll have a police crime scene investigator tell us about a cold case he recently solved. In 1987 … Continue reading
May 9th, 2015 meeting – Financial Crimes AND the Writer-Editor Relationship I’ll be there for the monthly Arizona Mystery Writers meeting, because it’s interesting, and because I’m the emcee. A representative from the TPD Financial Crimes Unit walks the … Continue reading
I’ll be signing and selling two of my books this weekend at the Tucson Festival of Books. I volunteered anyway to staff the booth of the Arizona Mystery Writers (www.arizonamysterywriters.com) for a couple of hours, and one benefit of membership … Continue reading
Arizona Writing Workshop I attended a Writing Workshop sponsored by the Society of Southwestern Authors (www.ssa-az.org), and presented by Writer’s Digest. It was a one-day presentation of information for authors about publishing, marketing, and selling books. This substantial info-dump was … Continue reading
I’m between projects right now, so I’m goofing off by blogging about a course I’m taking from the University of Arizona, “Postmodern Art and its Discontents,” by professor Paul Ivey. From the Syllabus: October 6, 2014 The first lecture was … Continue reading
Creativity and Consciousness Adams, W.A. (July, 2014). Creativity and Consciousness. RoSE – Research on Steiner Education Vol.5 No.1 2014. ISSN 1891-6511 (online at http://www.rosejourn.com/index.php/rose/article/view/187/198). In this article, I proposed that creativity is a natural phenomenon, part of the very structure … Continue reading
Adams, W. A. (2011). The Development of Intersubjectivity. Presented at Psychology & the Other Conference, 2011, October 1-3, Cambridge, MA. How is it possible that we are aware of each other’s experience? Each of us is a subjectivity, a fact … Continue reading