by mike | Mar 21, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
With a fifth book in the series on the horizon, here is my 2020 post about book #4, Back on the Bike Path. 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...
by mike | Feb 29, 2024 | Aging, Books, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
It’s still kind of disturbing to revisit this awful time in history. I first presented this post in…when else, 2020. Day 18,764 of the coronavirus pandemic: enough already! I mean, freaking enough! Are we back in the Dark Ages with the Black Plague? And it only seems...
by mike | Feb 19, 2024 | Baseball, Books, Movies, Musical Theater, Sports, Uncategorized |
I don’t recall exactly when The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, published in 1954, came into the Sirota household. Maybe I picked it up at a library sale…a possibility, as back then I haunted the West Farms Branch (in The Bronx) of the New York Public Library....
by mike | Feb 12, 2024 | Books, Bookstores, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writing |
I’ve been through starts and stops with my writing career. At present I’m in a “hold” pattern, for unavoidable reasons. I addressed one of the “stops” at a long-ago book launch for my novel, The Burning Ground, one that I repeated shortly afterward as keynote speaker...
by mike | Feb 8, 2024 | Books, Editing, Research, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
To me, walking is more than just exercise. I first presented this post in 2020. Yes, I mean that literally…but not in a nasty way. Quite the opposite. I’ve written over two dozen novels and countless stories, articles, blog posts, etc., and there has been one...
by mike | Jan 29, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Movie Lines, Movies, Quotes, Uncategorized |
A wizard of the Istari order, Gandalf the Grey—later, after his death during a battle with a Balrog, Gandalf the White—is a dominant figure in the two remarkable screen trilogies, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Admirably portrayed by Sir Ian McKellen, he also...
