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 | 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 | Apr 27, 2015 | Books, Bookstores, Films About Books, Horror Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Thus begins a new series on my blog. Just to clarify, there are countless films “adapted from” or “based on” one book or another. That is not what I’m doing here. As the title says, these movies are “about” a book or books. For example, on my to-do list are The...
by mike | Sep 15, 2014 | Books, Bookstores, Native Americans, Nightmares, Uncategorized, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
That line, and Stephen King’s Misery—which I wrote about last week—are apparently inseparable. In the hope of finding some more material I entered “writers’ number one fans” into a search engine, and guess what: the first four links that show up are for Misery and...
by mike | Dec 9, 2013 | Books, Bookstores, Editing, Holocaust, Horror, Psychological Thrillers, Publishing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
In my last post I promised to share some more transitions from my novel, FREEDOM’S HAND, to show how this necessary device can strengthen a writer’s story. It’s time to pay off. The early scene where Nathan Adler and the Lowe family first arrive at Lager, the desert...
by mike | Dec 2, 2013 | Books, Bookstores, Editing, Holocaust, Publishing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
As a writing coach for two centuries or more I have read a lot of transitions from one POV to another, one scene to another, even one past era to a contemporary story, from countless students and clients. Many of them are fine, others not so much. You can confuse the...
