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...
by mike | Aug 17, 2015 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Death, Ghosts, Life, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
I’ve never dwelled too much on what happens after I croak. But now that I’m pushing an age that once seemed science fiction, I have to wonder just where I’ll wind up when that time comes. Will my atoms get scattered to the universe? Will the Mother Ship come and get...
by mike | Aug 3, 2015 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Native Americans, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
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 on (and in) Earth—Tarzan, Pellucidar, Caspak—and on other worlds—John Carter of Mars, Carson of Venus—sparked...
by mike | Jul 27, 2015 | Books, Bookstores, Fantasy, Films About Books, Movies, Uncategorized |
If the 1979 novel, The Neverending Story, by German author Michael Ende, is a book about a book, then I suppose the 1984 film adaptation, The NeverEnding Story, can be referred to as a movie about a book about a book. But why make ourselves crazy thinking about that?...
by mike | Jul 17, 2015 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Death, Editing, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
In order to introduce my latest re-release, Warlord of Maldrinium (World After Death: Book One), I have to go way back in time. I’m talking 1978, just about when humankind discovered fire. At least movable type had been invented by then, because in that year I...
by mike | May 25, 2015 | Books, Death, Editing, Life, Non-Fiction, Publishing, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Writing |
Dr. Richard House approached me via a referral a little over a year ago—just about the time I teetered on the cusp of full retirement. He had a non-fiction manuscript that needed a ton of work—his assessment—a true story that was kind of “out there,” he said. Having...
