I first “met” Lee Lofland through an online email group, Crimescenewriters. His comments and answers to questions others asked, to create realistic plots and characters, gave me tons of material I can use some day. After hearing he was a writer, too, I had to know more.

Lofland brings his experience as a veteran police investigator, who worked his way from an officer in Virginia's prison system, then a sheriff's deputy, a patrol officer, and a detective to his book Police Procedure and Investigation, A Guide for Writers. According to his web site, Lofland solved cases dealing with narcotics, homicide, rape, murder-for-hire, robbery, and ritualistic and occult crimes. He was an undercover officer and even a narcotics K-9 handler. He’s certified in the U.S. Department of Justice, Virginia State Police Academy, and the DEA, as well as continuing to be certified in Crime Scene Management and Crime Scene Investigations.

If you're here to read this review, you already know enough about the Internet to be familiar with the term blog, and may have had your own experiences with it. You know, for example, that a blog can be anything from a public online diary to a business tool. That's the kind of information that is covered in Part I: The Basics of What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting: Real-Life Advice from 101 People who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere, essentially a blog on blogging.

When reading the above title, images of zombie people doing stupid things are often the first thing that comes to my mind. Hypnosis is one of those things that is strange and mysterious to many of us. Or perhaps among some, the idea that you can make the most beautiful woman, or handsome man, do your bidding with no protest. Some even believe you can make your breasts or other parts of the anatomy enlarged. To all of which this book assures the reader is false.