by mike | Jun 13, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
Last week I thanked ERB for being my inspiration to write. This 2012 post details his interesting life. (A great Kindle deal on a couple of my own “lost world” novels can be found at the end of this post.) In a recent post I noted that Edgar Rice Burroughs...
by mike | Jun 6, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post is an homage to my muse, Edgar Rice Burroughs. I can never say enough about this legendary author. In the 1980s I published a sword & sorcery novel titled, The Twentieth Son of Ornon (reissued a few years ago as The Sons of Ornon). It might have been my...
by mike | May 27, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
If you are a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), you have more than likely seen the eagerly awaited Avengers: Endgame. But in case you haven’t, you need not worry that there are any spoilers in this brief homage. All I want to say is that this twenty-second...
by mike | May 23, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Native Americans, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
These lesser known works by Edgar Rice Burroughs foreshadowed a dystopian future. This post first ran in 2015. I’ve written a great deal about my muse, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and how as a kid I read just about all of his seventy-plus novels. His adventure stories both...
by mike | May 2, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Death, Editing, Publishing, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
Getting a chance (and having the time) to rewrite some problematic novels from the past is one of the great joys of retirement. This post first ran in 2015, and I mostly left it as is. In order to introduce my latest re-release, Warlord of Maldrinium (World After...
by mike | Feb 21, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Fantasy, Nightmares, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post, which contains a heck of a book promotion, first ran in 2015. In last week’s post I discussed a movie, The Whole Wide World, which chronicled a brief period of time in the all-too-short life of writer Robert E. Howard. Best known for his stories about Conan...
