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| This is me, trying to establish my "good ole country boy" / redneck bona fides |
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 |
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About me:
"John Scot" is a pseudonym. In real life, the author is a semi-retired scientist who lives deep in the heart of flyover country with his wife and his two youngest children (ages 18 and 6). Politically, I would describe myself as "socially conservative, but politically libertarian" --i.e. classically liberal. I believe that America's most serious problem is that government is about ten times bigger than it ought to be, and that this is destroying us. I'm sure that attitude shows up in the fiction that I write.
I have recently written two novels that I am trying to get published, and also two short stories that are (hopefully!) going to appear soon in a new, online, libertarian-oriented webzine. (Scroll down for details.)
Under my real name, I have written several dozen scientific articles -- mostly in peer-reviewed journals like the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and the Journal of Applied Physics.
I have also had about a dozen or so newspaper Op-Eds published over the years, mostly in opposition to America's War on (some) Drugs. Some of these appeared in major newspapers, such as the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, and the Toledo Blade. ... Come to think of it: The Blade actually paid me! ... $150 back in 1990 for an Op-Ed criticizing the idea of women in combat.
This is me, trying to establish my "good ole
country boy" / redneck bona fidesTrain up a child in the way he should go: and when
he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
| TITLE | LENGTH (words) |
SUMMARY | STATUS |
| Chasing After Devils | 110,000 | Two survivors of a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness overcome staggering odds and claw their way back to civilization, only to have their lives shattered by a politically ambitious District Attorney |
Looking for publisher |
| Imaginary Hobgoblins | 80,000 | A deeply religious high-school girl befriends a boy who has been falsely branded as a 'violent sexual predator.' |
Editing beta draft |
| Independence Day | 1500 | 120 years in the future, a family in the heartland celebrates their independence from Washington DC. |
Accepted for publication |
| A Child Is Born | 5000 | (Satire) A very special child is born in a stable in post-ObamaCare America during the 'Winter Solstice Festival.' |
Accepted for publication |
| Cari's First Solo Elk Hunt |
7700 | A 14 year old "Free Range Kid," on her first solo big game hunt in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, encounters a grizzly bear. | Almost ready to submit |
| BOOKS | Writers / Bloggers / Websites |
| Animal Farm ( All you need to know about how government works, condensed into a compact novella. All governments, not just Stalinist. ) |
Radley Balko (The Agitator) Thomas Sowell |
| We the Living. (Far and away, Ayn Rand's best work of fiction) | Free Range Kids |
| No Crueler Tyrannies by Dorothy Rabinowitz (The definitive history of the "Satanic child abuse" witch-hunts of the 1980's. And nothing has really changed; the flaws in the legal system that allowed these atrocities to occur are still there.) |
Simple Justice Volokh Conspiracy Kevin D. Williamson Oriana Fallaci |
| The Rise of the Warrior Cop. by Radley Balko ( Required reading for anybody who is still naive enough to think that the police exist to "protect and serve" the public.) |
Cathy Young Heather MacDonald |
| Three Felonies a Day. by Harvey Silverglate | Theodore Dalrymple |
| Death of the Grownup. by Diana West | Mark Steyn |
| The Case Against Adolescence. by Robert Epstein, PhD. (Debunks the modern notion that teenagers are overgrown children, rather than young adults.) |
Camille Paglia John Derbyshire Christina Sommers |
| Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton (Personally, I think this is an even more powerful story than Cry The Beloved Country.) |
Victor Davis Hanson Overlawyered |
| Jury Nullification by Clay Conrad | Kay S. Hymowitz |
| Intellectuals by Paul Johnson | Dr. Helen |
| My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas | Razib Khan |
| White Guilt by Shelby Steele | Amy Alkon |
| The Jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones (Kind of soap-opera-ish, but anything that "outrages" the Islamic fanatics ought to be encouraged in the interests of supporting Free Speech.) |
Megan McArdle Fred Reed Walter Williams |
| The Beast in the Garden. by David Baron (Just because you love nature, doesn't mean that She loves you.) |
Jon Krakauer Arts & Letters Daily |
| Night Flight. by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Iron men in wooden airships.) | Maggie McNeill James Taranto |
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| This is me, back around 1953, when boys could still be boys. | Me, with my wife and youngest child, hiking in the Rockies, about 4 years ago. | My youngest child, about a year ago, with her first trout. |
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| This was me, a few years ago, on the summit of Pico de Orizaba, Mexico (18,400 feet) |
My son, elk hunting in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. |