: About Me

What is in a name? If you live in Los Angeles and your name is Gregory Jacobs, quite a lot. There are four people ahead of me in line at the Imdb.com with that name and to my father's chagrin they all have jobs with skills I can't really fake to get work. So I write as G.N. Jacobs.

Educated in Journalism and Political Science courtesy of the State of California, I have branched out into fiction. I run an online genre fiction www.smokinglizard.com. I have written two books published through www.lulu.com. I'm pushing my first novel Blood & Ink (Lulu ID 2094145).

I blog at www.myspace.com/gnjacobs.

I joined because I am a trained journalist and my mom will kill me if I don't do more articles (she understands journalism).

My passion is ...

Genre Fiction

I know too much about ...

War, politics, comic books, Star Trek, being the youngest in my family, Trivial Pursuit

My parents always told me ...

I was a genius

My childhood ambition ...

quadruple jet ace, changed to winning Pulitzer, Hugo, Nebula, Dick one of each

My favorite memory ...

playing football, the first time I saw my dad's house and imagined a flying saucer in the water hazard

Why I write ...

If I could explain it I wouldn't have to do it

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Star Trek: Odyssey, CSI, His Dark Materials, Smallville

My first job ...

Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors clerk

My best moment ...

Reading the right excerpt and selling two books for the first time

My inspiration ...

Bob Woodward

Business > Business Issues Should auto makers receive bailout money?

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The more I think about the Big Three automakers, the more I hear the word bankruptcy floating in the gray matter between my ears. And I don't mean Chapter 11 where a company gets sent to its room without dessert or allowance until released as an almost new enterprise ready to fight for customers. I want to see a total liquidation. I can hear the hate mail landing in my inbox as I write. Don't I know that upwards of 3 million people will lose jobs? What do I have against fixtures of our economy that style themselves the "Heartbeat of America?" Yeah, yeah, I'm not stupid, but I still want to...

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