by mike | Oct 11, 2021 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Uncategorized |
The 2013 fantasy-adventure film, Jack the Giant Slayer, is based on a nearly 300-year-old British fairytale titled, The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean. We all know it better as Jack and the Beanstalk. I could have presented the film as a Guilty...
by mike | Sep 13, 2021 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
In my comedy/science fiction series, bicyclist Jack Miller enters numerous worlds through “gates” along the cosmic tunnel known as the Ultimate Bike Path. It could be Earth’s past or future, otherworldly dimensions, even the pages of literature, among many others....
by mike | Jul 5, 2021 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
A reader in the UK, one of my 17 international fans, 😊 recently wrote me to say that his old copies of my Sword & Sorcery novels, Berbora and Flight From Berbora, had disintegrated and blown away on a slight breeze. I advised him that I had rewritten and reissued...
by mike | Feb 25, 2021 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Uncategorized, Writing |
No grandchildren that I can read to during the blasted pandemic! I first presented this post in 2017. When my three daughters were little I used to tell them stories that, for the most part, I made up on the fly. One such fantasy tale was about two teens, brother and...
by mike | Dec 7, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Okay, I don’t normally capitalize my headlines, but hey, this is a big deal for me. Somehow Jack’s favorite alien, the Old Guy, forgot about him for a long time—but all that has changed. Join an older—and maybe wiser?—Jack as he rides into Edgar Allan Poe’s head; as...
by mike | Oct 8, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Ghosts, Historical Novels, Horror, Humor, Life, Native Americans, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
When I first presented this post I had put seven years behind me following a health issue that nearly sent the Mother Ship down to take me home. Four more years have passed, so I’ve updated this post. As the challenging year of 2020 staggers to an end, I’ve had a...
