Should I Be Concerned?
Yikes! I use Google Analytics to watch over access and use of my web site. For the last several weeks, a substantial number of visitors hail from Russia, Crimea, and Yemen! If you’re unfamiliar with my work, let me note that many of my novels contain characters who are members of Russia’s military intelligence, the infamous GRU. Saint Petersburg University is the alma mater for some people of note in Russia. Mr. Putin is a graduate. Petersburg is also the home of the Internet Research Agency. This is the outfit responsible for the use of Facebook to influence public opinion in the run-up to our presidential election in 2016. So, how does that make me feel? First, every author welcomes readers, and where those readers reside is seldom an issue. I like readers. If not, why bother writing? Second, it’s unfair to condemn any geographic locale just because the activities I attribute to the GRU (and in my forthcoming book, If at First, the Internet Research A