by mike | Apr 7, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized |
I actually watched this old guilty pleasure a few weeks ago. Here is what I wrote about it in 2012. In a previous post I mentioned that the “guilt” in guilty pleasures comes from worrying about what others might think about one’s tastes, maybe seeing you as a real...
by mike | Mar 17, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Humor, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
With regard to writing novels I had to start somewhere, as noted in this post from 2012. What? No, this isn’t about THAT first time. This blog is about writers, and writing, and fantasy, and horror, and stuff like that. Besides, that would be telling. This is about...
by mike | Feb 1, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Fantasy, Life, Mystery Novels, Psychological Thrillers, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
Like most Americans these days, I worked full-time into my late sixties. During all my adult years I probably could have made some time to partake in one of my favorite endeavors: reading books. One problem: for most of that time I worked as a writing coach and...
by mike | Dec 10, 2015 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Fantasy, Ghosts, Horror, Life, Native Americans, Publishing, Research, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
With over two hundred posts in the nearly four-year existence of my blog, I thought it might be fun to revisit some of the older stories. Beginning today, in addition to the new posts on Monday I will use the Wayback Machine every Thursday to summon up the past....
by mike | Aug 31, 2015 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Bookstores, Publishing, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
I admit it: when it came to reading eBooks on Kindle or other e-readers, I stood in the forefront of many other Luddites who insisted that holding a paperback or hardcover book—a REAL book—in their hands was the only way to go. Heck, I didn’t even own a Kindle until a...
by mike | Aug 24, 2015 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
My muse, Edgar Rice Burroughs, wrote his adventure novel, At the Earth’s Core, in 1914. Six more books followed in what is known as his Pellucidar series. But more than likely ERB was influenced by a novel written over fifty years earlier by a French author named...
