Hopeful Romantics

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic behavior in the late twentieth century. He has recently published The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He is the author of the Constant Travellers. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.

I was pleased to see that my book, The Guys Who Spied for China, my Gordon Basichis roman a clef was listed on Kindle Rank as one of the Best Kindle Books.  It is always nice when one’s work is regarded, and I spent quite some time living and writing this novel. Here is the [...]

Not long ago, on one of the book blog sites, some guy went out of his way to tell me how indifferent he was to my work.   I responded once and asked him if he was so  indifferent than why did he go out of his way to tell me.  I thought if he had [...]

The Constant Travellers, a novel by me, Gordon Basichis, has journeyed a long way over the years.   Since it was first published by G.P. Putnam’s its film rights have been optioned twice by two motion picture studios, Twentieth Century Fox, and MGM.   The Authors Guild adopted it as part of their Back in Print Program [...]

All rhetoric aside, revolutions are not started by the poor.   The poor may contribute later on, or pile in and take the revolution to certain extremes, but they are not the ones who start it.  I realize it is romantic to think of the poor rising up to break the yoke of poverty, but [...]

It is always nice to see when one’s efforts are rewarded.  In this case my novel, The Guys Who Spied for China, was just highlighted by Independent Publisher Online.   As this roman a clef took me long enough to write and long enough to live through, I am glad to see that publishing industry folk as well as [...]