My latest novel

 

Are you looking for a good read?  My latest novel, The Roving Reporter: Spanning the Globe in the 1990s, is now available on my author website.  Just click on the link below.

Joanne Madden – Author

The Roving Reporter is a sequel to my second novel, The Missing Reporter. It chronicles the further adventures of Sandra McKay, a spirited journalist from Prince Edward Island. The novel takes place from 1990 to 1997, just before the Millennium and the digital age. After being abducted by ruthless mob boss, Bruno Rossi, Sandra travels to France to recover from her ordeal and to visit her cousin, Dennis Casey, a man with a secret. Dennis' friend offers Sandra a job as a foreign correspondent based in London. She travels around the globe, accompanied by Colin Purcell, a crusty English photographer. During her seven years as a world reporter, Sandra covers major stories in Britain, France, Italy, South Africa, Japan, Hong Kong. Mexico and Australia. Meanwhile, she finds herself targeted by the mob.

Thank you for your support.  It means a lot to me.

- Joanne

Jeff Bezos and his shananigans

Jeff Bezos

According to Forbes magazine. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was worth $239 billion as of July 2025.  His current estimated worth is $244 billion.  On June 27, 2025, Bezos married Lauren Sanchez in Venice, Italy.  That obscenely lavish wedding cost between $47 million and $56 million.  

Bezos the  billionaire is trying to get into the good graces of the increasingly autocratic Donald Trump.  He spent $40 million for the title of the recently released Melania movie and an additional $35 million for its marketing.  That's $75 million in total.  Just think how much better the world would be if that $75 million were spent on health care, education, the environment and foreign aid.  Meanwhile, The Washington Post, which Bezos owns, is laying off hundreds of employees in what has been described as "among the darkest days of the newspaper's history."

In its glory days, two reporters for The Washington Post, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, were instrumental in uncovering the Watergate Scandal.  Bezos is destroying the legacy of a great American newspaper.  When he prevented The Post from endorsing Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, many readers were furious and cancelled their subscriptions.  How sad!  Shed a tear for all those Post employees who have been served with a pink slip.  They have to go home to their families without a job.  This is a tremendous blow.  As the Post's fortunes sag, more readers will obtain their news from unreliable and false internet sources.

The American media is becoming increasingly under the control of oligarchs and tech billionaires who bow to Donald Trump's every whim.  They control more and more of the corporate media and it's no secret that they are fuelled by a burning desire for money and power.  They are motivated by pure, unadulterated greed.  They do not care about ordinary Americans who struggle with the costs of everyday living.  They do not identify with those who have no health care coverage or are forced to use food banks.

Amazon, run by Bezos, pledged $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund, as did Mark Zuckerberg's Meta.  I'm sure Bezos and Meta wanted nothing in return. They donated the money out of the goodness of their generous hearts.  Oh yes, Google and Apple also kicked in $1 million.  It's time for the voice of the people to be heard.  Stand up for democracy before it's too late!

- Joanne