Carl Vonderau
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Greetings from San Diego. I was lucky enough this month to be interviewed for two podcasts and to contribute to another author’s blog. But something else exciting is coming up. I and three other authors are trying something I’ve never done before. We’re doing an event at the Lightning Brewery. See more about it below. […]
Hello from San Diego. It’s hard to believe summer is winding to an end. In this issue you have a chance for a free book and to get a free primer on how to tell a story. See details in the newsletter below. Thanks for reading Carl Vonderau’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new […]
Hello from San Diego. My wife has had her new knee for seven weeks now. This is a long recovery, but she’s getting around without a walker or cane. It will be awhile before she can get back to yoga. I’m trying to finish a new book, as well as a primer for people in […]
No Kings Day Hello from San Diego. These are the summer slow months, and I will mostly be staying home. My wife just had a knee replacement so we are concentrating on her recovery. I’m also working on another book, as well as a primer for people in companies and nonprofits on how to tell […]
Greetings from San Diego You Thought Bernie Madoff Was Audacious When Bernie Madoff was arrested, most thought he was the most audacious Ponzi-scheme fraudster in U.S. history. But just nine days earlier another Ponzi fraudster was arrested. I thought this man was even more brazen. I first learned about him in a Vanity Fair article […]
Greetings from San Diego. You Thought Bernie Madoff Was Audacious When Bernie Madoff was arrested, most thought he was the most audacious Ponzi-scheme fraudster in U.S. history. But just nine days earlier another Ponzi fraudster was arrested. I thought this man was even more brazen. I first learned about him in a Vanity Fair article […]
Eight months ago I wrote about bankers working such long hours that they collapsed at their desks. In 2024 a 35-year-old former special forces intern at Bank of America was working more than 100 hours a week. Think about this. That’s 14 hours a day and 7 days a week. He collapsed and died. The […]
Greetings from San Diego Suppose Your Great Uncle Was a Hitman Imagine that your whole family knew that your great uncle, Heshy, was a hitman who’d killed 20 people. Now that is a family secret. Then one day your great uncle calls you. From prison. He knows you’re a journalist and wants you to write […]
Hello from San Diego. With so many scams going on, this feels appropriate. Speaking of scams, my friend, Kathleen Donnelly, wrote a special piece this issue on bags that fool narcotics-sniffing dogs. She is an expert on this because she used to have a drug-sniffing dog business. Here she is with four of her dogs. […]