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Death in Mind Wins Book of the Year!

“Death in Mind” has won a BIBA (Best Independent Book Award) “Book of the Year”. It’s an essay of about 200 pages that reconceptualizes death as an ordinary psychological phenomenon we all have experienced many times. What exactly constitutes the…
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Attic Polters Comin’ to Haunt You!

Attic Polters book cover

Attic Polters is a sequel to last year’s novel, “Polters” (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV3HG5JB; https://books2read.com/u/mBVzVk). Now the Polters (ghosts) are haunting the attics of old houses in Portland, OR.  Astute readers might suspect an attic is a symbol for the mind. Whaaat? Here…
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Nothing!

If you like nothing, you’ll love this new paper!  It’s a nonfiction essay in philosophical psychology, all about objectless experience. Who doesn’t love objectless experience? The paper combines ideas from “Scientific Introspection” (2020) and “Nothing in Mind” (2023). See those…
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Death to the New Year!

Death In Mind, a nonfiction essay in philosophical psychology, is set for release January 1, 2024. Death In Mind is volume five in the award-winning Discovering the Mind series. This series of essays is the result of a fifty-year hunt…
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Polters Wins BRAG Medallion!

Polter cover with medallion

Polters received the Gold Medallion from Book Readers Appreciation Group (B.R.A.G) https://www.bragmedallion.com/award-winning-books/literary-fiction/polters/ Indie-Brag brings together book club members from around the globe. When their readers recommend a book and then it gets a 5-star independent review, then presto! BRAG Gold…
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5 Stars for Polters!

Reader Views (www.readerviews.com) awarded Polters a rare five-star review.  The reviewer wrote, “Polters: First in the Polter Series” by William X. Adams, is a highly entertaining and engrossing science fiction novel with a ghostly theme… If you like novels about…
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Polters Longlisted for Cygnus Prize!

Polters, released in March, is a novel about life on the other side of the river that separates the living from the dead. And it has landed on the bottom rung of a tall ladder: the Cygnus Prize Longlist: https://www.chantireviews.com/contests/…
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