So, in addition to writing about international relations, I've started to write fiction. I now have a killer short story collection out -- Song Book -- and my debut novel will appear next month. (https://www.norrinmripsman.com/fictio...)
According to an impartial reader, Song Book -- which is inspired by and engages classic rock music -- is the best short story collection ever written! Okay, that was my mother, so maybe she's not that impartial.... But it's still pretty good.
And the novel, The Oracle of Spring Garden Road, is exactly like Where's Waldo? Only it's more like Who's Waldo? Or rather, Who's Eddie and What's A Brilliant Homeless Man Like Him Doing On The Streets? So I guess it's not like Where's Waldo at all.... But you get the idea.
And, yes, I'm still writing international relations. I'm finishing a book on Middle East grand strategy with Steven Lobell, Thomas Juneau and Larry Rubin. I'm also starting a book on the decline of the Western liberal order with Lobell and Jeff Taliaferro.