by Epoch Edge Press | Sep 2, 2026 | Political Reform
Learning how to run for local office is easier than almost anyone expects. In most communities, getting your name on the ballot requires a filing form, a modest fee or a few dozen valid signatures from your neighbors, and a deadline you did not miss. The paperwork is...
by Epoch Edge Press | Sep 1, 2026 | Political Thriller
Political thrillers about the Supreme Court work because the stakes are absurdly concentrated. Nine unelected people, appointed for life, can settle an argument 330 million Americans have been having for decades — and they do it in a marble building most citizens have...
by Epoch Edge Press | Aug 31, 2026 | Political Events
Continuity of government is the set of laws, rules, and plans meant to keep the United States functioning after a catastrophe. For the presidency, that plan is detailed and well-rehearsed: the 25th Amendment, the Presidential Succession Act, a designated survivor at...
by Epoch Edge Press | Aug 30, 2026 | Writing Process
What makes a good political thriller, according to the readers who write to me, is plausibility under pressure. The plot has to turn on rules that actually exist — a vacancy, a procedural quirk, a vote nobody bothered to read — and the consequences have to...
by Epoch Edge Press | Aug 29, 2026 | Political Reform
The short answer: writing political fiction without taking sides doesn’t mean writing without conviction. It means aiming at institutions instead of parties — at the incentives, loopholes, and procedural machinery that would tempt anyone who walked into...
by Epoch Edge Press | Aug 28, 2026 | Political Thriller
Short answer: The best political thrillers about a coup are less interested in tanks in the street than in paperwork, loyalty, and the moment an ordinary official decides whether to sign. Start with Seven Days in May for the classic military-plot template, It...
by Epoch Edge Press | Aug 27, 2026 | Political Events
Here is the Article V convention explained in four sentences. The Constitution contains a second, almost-never-discussed method of amending itself: if two-thirds of the state legislatures — 34 states — apply for a convention, Congress shall call one. That...
by Epoch Edge Press | Aug 26, 2026 | Political Reform
Here is the short answer. How political reform happens is almost never the way we picture it. Reform does not arrive as one heroic vote on one dramatic night; it arrives when a stubborn handful of people keep an unfashionable idea alive through years of losing, until...
by Epoch Edge Press | Aug 23, 2026 | Writing Process
Here is the short answer. If you want to know how to write a book review that genuinely helps the author, forget the plot summary and answer three questions instead: who is this book for, what did it do well, and who would you hand it to? Three specific sentences...
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