James B. WellsI picked a great night to read for the first time at Poetry at the /’tābəl/. I read a draft of a free-verse poem of protest, inspired in part by my investigative memoir, Because, to be published June 2025. Elizabeth Peck and Jay McCoy were great hosts for a memorable evening with feature poets Katerina […]
I was fortunate to be able to read at EKU’s BGWS Zoom Open-mic yesterday. I read an excerpt from my investigative memoir Because. It was a little tribute to the former Air America pilots I interviewed in 2017 and that are leaving us at what I regard to be an alarming rate. I read at […]
Whistleblowers often leave clues of the actual causes of their deaths with loved ones before they die. https://abcnews4.com/news/local/if-anything-happens-its-not-suicide-boeing-whistleblowers-prediction-before-death-south-carolina-abc-news-4-2024#
Sad to say, we have to add another person to the growing list of whistleblowers who have died or disappeared under mysterious circumstances. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-apparent-suicide-2024-03-12/
Now that I’ve submitted a final draft for my investigative memoir ‘Because,’ I’m working on an index for it. Although I’ve never had to create an index for a book, I figured I was more qualified than anyone else to make one. After spending a few hours investigating the best ways to do it in […]
After over 33 years of research and writing, I just submitted the final draft of Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew to Milspeak Books, my publisher. The timing is good since I have some spring projects, including some new writing, that I need to start. And yet, […]
At last night’s BGWS open mic at the Dreaming Creek Brewery, I read an excerpt from my investigative memoir where I interviewed some former Air America personnel about what they recalled of the systematic coverup of my father’s plane crash in 1965.
Now that I have a book deal, I thought I’d create a trailer announcing that. I anticipate developing future trailers as part of my investigative memoir’s promotional campaign. If you wish to stay informed and receive automatic updates about my true-crime memoir, subscribe at my website https://jamesbwells.com
Looking forward to the day the cover of my investigative memoir, Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew (see https://jamesbwells.com) will be added to these great reads published by Milspeak Books.
In my investigative memoir about my whistleblower father’s still classified death in Vietnam, I write about how, from my quest, I learned that peace requires forgiveness and forgiveness requires truth. After 33 years of research and writing, my confession, that is my satisfaction with the truth I exposed about my father’s life and death, will debut […]
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