top of page



What if it was you?
Imagine... you are lying in bed on a Sunday morning, looking forward to a day of solitude, maybe binge-watching Netflix, when an incessant knock at your door forces you to abandon your warm quilt. A delivery service hands you a package, which is strange enough on a Sunday morning. You open it and find an opaque disc and a card inviting you to participate in a focus group starting that very morning. Of course, you dismiss it as a prank, abandon all hopes of crawling back into

Réal Laplaine
Mar 301 min read


A crime fighter with a smile...what?!
As popular as crime thriller television series go, I find them to be too stereotypical when it comes to depicting crime fighters. The main character, whether he or she is a cop, detective or agent of some law enforcement branch, is generally depicted as having a dysfunctional intimate relationship or marriage and incapable of keeping one in tact. Moreover, and this is the case in about 95% of the series I have watched, their partners are always upset, complaining and even lea

Réal Laplaine
Mar 222 min read


LOOK: Where are YOU on the spectrum?
NEW RELEASE! Look: Where Are YOU On the Spectrum? is a book of fundamental importance to everyone in the world, regardless of nationality, race, age or sex. It asks the essential question; what can be done to save our planet from sociopathic dictators who from one moment to the next could wipe out humanity with the press of a button. Far from being a philosophical treatise, the author keeps the reader on the edge of their seat by creating a virtual forum using advanced techn

Réal Laplaine
Mar 131 min read


A dream to reunite ABBA sparks a global event...
Written when ABBA, the Swedish pop-group that swept across the world in the 70s and 80s with their memorable songs, Finding Agnetha is an inspired story about a young boy who loved the group and wanted to see them play live again, despite the fact that everyone, the band included, said it would never happen. He sets out on a mission, running away from his troubled home in America, makes it to Sweden and searches out Agnetha Faltskog, the iconic blonde singer from the group.

Réal Laplaine
Dec 27, 20251 min read


When did crime thrillers become dramas?
As a writer, with my own crime thriller series, and an avid watcher of crime series, there is a pattern I see, maybe you do too, where...

Réal Laplaine
Jul 1, 20253 min read


The V.O.I.C.E. that silenced the world
The first human base on Mars discovers something. It's not ours. It's not even made from elements found on Earth. It's discovery will...

Réal Laplaine
Mar 21, 20251 min read


A message from space...or is it?
V.O.I.C.E. - The Silence is Over! 23-year-old Jacob Dekker and his partner and secret lover, 21-year-old Jess Andersson, two of the...

Réal Laplaine
Mar 3, 20252 min read


2 Trillion chances to say "Hello!"
NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) are already preparing for a manned Mars mission in the near future - the first time humans...

Réal Laplaine
Feb 8, 20252 min read


Sweden's Chalmer's University lands a spot in V.O.I.C.E.
In my newly released book, V.O.I.C.E. - The Silence is Over , there was a critical spot in the story where I had to select a location for...

Réal Laplaine
Feb 4, 20251 min read


Deception People: Telling the truth can be fatal.
This is an extract from the preface to my book, Deception People , where Dr. Carlton Faber, a neurological specialist, and a graduate...

Réal Laplaine
Dec 9, 20248 min read


When Cowboys Fall in Publishers Weekly
My newest book, When Cowboys Fall, is now available through Publishers Weekly, in their February 2024 print publication and at Publishers...

Réal Laplaine
Mar 19, 20241 min read


Author, Réal Laplaine speaking at the University of Buffalo Burchfield Art Center
Author, Réal Laplaine speaking at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, part of the University of Buffalo, about his book, the 9th Divinity....

Réal Laplaine
Feb 19, 20241 min read


The Canadian Cowboy culture
My newest book, When Cowboys Fall, is inspired by the cowboy culture, both in America and Canada, and to some extent, the television...

Réal Laplaine
Jan 26, 20242 min read


When Cowboys Fall: An inspired story about the cowboy in all of us!
At some point in our lives, we all step across that proverbial line where the road ahead of us is suddenly, and sometimes, shockingly,...

Réal Laplaine
Dec 28, 20231 min read


Do they win - or do we?
In 2020, when the pandemic caused a global meltdown, the world came together and found a cure to Covid in less than one year. Now, there...

Réal Laplaine
Dec 19, 20231 min read


Is anyone beyond second chances in life?
I lived in Los Angeles for 25 years, a city which has the 3rd largest GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of any city in the world; GDP...

Réal Laplaine
Oct 6, 20233 min read


The Global Rift of 2026
Given the current dynamics in our contemporary geopolitical arena, with Russia segregated from the West due to its tyrannical aggression...

Réal Laplaine
Jul 27, 20232 min read


What is the value of books?
Since the advent of eBooks (ePub, Kindle, etc.) and independent publishing platforms, book promoters and major book sellers have...

Réal Laplaine
Jul 26, 20231 min read


Can Ai stop dictators and war?
Ai or Artificial Intelligence, which essentially amounts to machines/computers demonstrating their own intelligence without human...

Réal Laplaine
Jul 12, 20233 min read


Is there an alternative to war?
To even pose such a question in the face of a global military industrial complex today, one where war is an industry of profit more than...

Réal Laplaine
Mar 28, 20234 min read
bottom of page