Christopher Rosow's Blog

Maybe the FBI has finally gotten around to reading Subversive Addiction.

On November 15, 2022, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in a hearing of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, saying, in part, “We do have national security concerns at least from the FBI’s end about TikTok. They include the possibility that the Chinese government could use it to control data collection on millions of users. Or control the recommendation algorithm, which could be used for influence ...

Election day should be a holiday—a celebration of democracy, not a day of despair or divisiveness. Democracy is messy, contentious, and yet every year, on the first Tuesday in November, we the people cast our votes and make our voices heard. Let’s celebrate that.

On election day, all schools should shutter—not just the ones used for polling places, but also pre-schools to med schools. Banks, stock markets—closed. Businesses—convenience stores, retailers, factories—take the day off. Basically ever...

Twice a year, we all come together and argue about one hour.

In November, we “fall back” and set our clocks one hour back to Standard Time. Then in March, we “spring forward” and set our clocks one hour ahead to Daylight Saving Time. Both days are an opportunity for endless articles, clickbait, and opinions. Allow me to join in!

But first, let’s read a few headlines. CNN posted that “Permanent Daylight Saving Time will hurt our health, experts say.” This article references a bill passed in the Sen...

I’ve received a great deal of feedback on the ending of Vital Deception. For those of you who haven’t gotten to Book Four yet, without giving it away, I can reveal that the last paragraph of the book proposes a question. Some readers have called it a “cliffhanger,” and it sort of is just that, even in a loosely literal sense.

I can also reveal (confess?) that when I completed the manuscript and published the book, I didn’t know the answer to that question. But, really, the answer is not at all im...

I’ve showcased James Patterson’s quote about Vital Deception once or twice or a million times before, and, yup, I’m gonna do it again. It reads, in part, “The story feels like it comes right out of today’s headlines.”

Well, let’s flip that backwards, because I just read a headline that felt like it comes right out of my story. 

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, Insider, Times of Israel (in other words, multiple sources, although to be fair, many of those sources merely refer ba...

Vital Deception is now available in print and e-book format on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and in e-book format on Apple Books and Kobo. Print versions through your favorite independent bookstore will be available next week (via order through Ingram), and the audio version is scheduled to drop on April 21 on Amazon, Audible, and Apple. 

Phew. I’ve pushed all the appropriate buttons, and it’s out of my hands. Vital Deception is published!

If you’re not following me on social media and missed my Adva...

Let’s make a movie!

Well, not that movie. Not the feature length flick that we are all hoping for, but something on a smaller scale, quite a bit shorter, and with a slightly smaller budget. And by “quite a bit shorter”, we’re talking sixty seconds, and by “slightly smaller budget,” we’re talking, um, zero. Which, to the penny, was my budget for the Vital Deception book trailer.

Many of the “real” publishers do book trailers for their new releases, and I thought it would be cool to bring Ben to the...

I took a break from wrapping up the final manuscript for Book Four — more on that to be publicized in a matter of days! — to catch up on the news. You know, the usual stuff; war, Olympics, burning car carrier, covid —

Wait, what? Burning car carrier? That sounds awfully familiar, doesn’t it?

Well, if you’ve read Threat Bias (and if not, this is a tiny bit of plot spoiler, so stop, read the book, and come back, if you please), the fate of the Panama-flagged “Felicity Ace” ship is an intersection of...

I took a break from wrapping up the final manuscript for Book Four — more on that to be publicized in a matter of days! — to catch up on the news. You know, the usual stuff; war, Olympics, burning car carrier, Covid —

Wait, what? Burning car carrier? That sounds awfully familiar, doesn’t it?

Well, if you’ve read Threat Bias (and if not, this is a tiny bit of plot spoiler, so stop, read the book, and come back, if you please), the fate of the Panama-flagged “Felicity Ace” ship is an intersection of...

I’ve been working on books four and five and as a result, I haven’t posted to the blog for a while. Not for a lack of content, though! Did I predict the future in Subversive Addiction?

Maybe. Check out these two recent news articles.

Let’s start on November 2, 2021, with the New York Times: Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System. Okay, now this might be a vague plot-spoiler for Subversive Addiction, but it’s a pretty big deal when the world’s largest socia...