by mike | Aug 26, 2021 | Books, Films About Writers, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The 1993 horror film, The Dark Half, is an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1989 novel of the same name. His main character, Thad Beaumont, is a bestselling novelist—what else? Writers love to write about other writers, and King leads the league in that category. I should...
by mike | Aug 16, 2021 | Aging, Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
“Three years ago at dusk on a spring evening, when the sky was a robin’s-egg blue and the wind as soft as a day-old chick, I was sitting on the veranda of my farm home in eastern Iowa when a voice very clearly said to me, ‘If you build it, he will come.’” Those words...
by mike | Jul 29, 2021 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writing |
I’d like to share a creepy scene from The Burning Ground, one of my four horror novels. This is the final scene in chapter one, which takes place in 1849. (The balance of the story is contemporary.) I first presented this post in 2017. The setup: gold has been...
by mike | Jul 22, 2021 | Books, Holocaust, Publishing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
Sadly, this award-winning novel—about a brutal white supremacist group in the 1990s—continues to be relevant today, as it was in 2017, when I last presented this post. I began writing the bare bones of Freedom’s Hand many years ago and ultimately published it in 2013....
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 | Jun 10, 2021 | Books, Editing, Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
By this time I have rewritten and reissued all of my previously published novels, a monumental task. This post first ran in 2017. Over the past few years I’ve been busy rewriting and reissuing many of my novels, the ones that were published from the late 1970s through...
