Bill Gates Warns of Smallpox, Flu & Other Epidemics
“. . . There was a simulation called Dark Winter that didn’t come out very well, i.e., smallpox scored one and humanity scored zero.” Microsoft founder Bill Gates at Davos, Switzerland, …
Close-up Look at Smallpox in my Memoir
How can you picture the horrors of smallpox? It’s more hideous than I’d ever imagined before moving to Africa. In The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication …
Smallpox: The Why? in My Memoir
Nigerian smallpox vaccination poster in the Hausa language Smallpox: The Why? It’s time to shift gears. …
Truth in My Memoir – No Fake News
Because I was, and am, adamant that my memoir of smallpox and Africa will be as true as I believe possible, the title You Can’t Make This Stuff …
Key #3 to Writing My Africa Smallpox Memoir – Read About Writing
“[Smallpox eradication] required the right people: doctors, epidemiologists, administrators, and volunteers who risked their safety and sanity in pursuit of an elusive goal…These heroes as much as technical, scientific, and …
Key #2 to Writing My Africa Memoir – Read Good Writing
Fighting smallpox, visits with royalty in a medieval palace (complete with a Rolls Royce given by Queen Elizabeth), and the whims of a blood-thirsty dictator. All had loomed large in …
3 Keys to Writing My Africa Memoir
The black mamba in my yard of dust and scrub south of the Sahara, the woman’s hideous smallpox scars, and a thousand other snips of memory. How did they become Vaccines …
Africa Timeline: Planning My Memoir
Launching into writing Vaccines & Bayonets, my memoir of Africa, was deceptively easy—smooth, nonstop. Memories of our lives in the smallpox eradication campaign flowed onto the page. The more traumatic experiences …
#3 The Book You Didn’t Know You Were Going To Write
It was time. Just dive in and start writing. The memoir of my family in the West African smallpox eradication campaign. Vaccines & Bayonets. I had file drawers full of historic documents. …
Newbie Writer: Old Files That Led Me To Write a Book
Have you taken on a major task you never intended to tackle? Launching out from your familiar shores into unfamiliar waters? That’s the situation I was in three and …