Click here for my award-winning short story The Fading Moon.
Click to download PDFs of these stories I did for CMO magazine
- Learning to count in Chinese: A look at how hard it is for business to cash in on the “China Dream”
- Creating an “anti-brand”: BMW came up with the Mini to appeal to people who would never buy a BMW
- Out & About: Companies are quietly embracing gay and lesbian consumers
Here are links to some of my work for Brandweek:
- Don Imus & Uncle Ben: “Two icons emblematic of a very strange moment in how Americans and the people who market to them think about race. Call it cultural schizophrenia—we denounce racism but still find it commercially appealing.”
- Second Life Loses Luster For Marketers: “Marketers continue to rush to the virtual world of Second Life despite increasing evidence they don’t really know what to do when they get there.”
Here are three stories I did about marketing to children:
- From Sierra Magazine — Branding Baby’s Brain: If you want to mold a hyperconsumer you’ve got to start early
- From Brandweek — ‘Adult’ Brands Get Parents Where The Kids Are
- From Boston Magazine — An Expose of “The Baby-Industrial Complex”
And some invective about Google for Computerworld:
A long loving look at my corrupt home town:
Other stuff:
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