by mike | Oct 17, 2019 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Paranormal, Uncategorized, Writing |
Today’s blast from the past is about “Romantic Horror.” I initially published this post just before another significant holiday in 2012. Enjoy! This Tuesday, February 14th—Valentine’s Day—is the publication date for my new ghost story/horror novel, The Burning Ground....
by mike | Oct 14, 2019 | Books, California, Horror, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writing |
By way of self-evaluation, The Modoc Well (originally published as The Well by Bantam Books) is the goriest of my four horror novels. This particular shocker of a scene will illustrate that. The setup: The Lowell family has relocated to the small Northern California...
by mike | Apr 25, 2019 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Paranormal, Publishing, Romance, Uncategorized, Writing |
Is “Romantic Horror” oil and water? Or bacon and eggs? This post last ran in 2015. My ghost story/horror novel, The Burning Ground, contains enough juicy, gory, creepy scenes to satisfy the horror purist. But the story is also about relationships—in particular the...
by mike | Mar 14, 2019 | Blowing Shit Up, California, Disaster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This post, first presented in 2015, was the first in my ongoing “Blowing Shit Up” series. 😊 Being a guy, it’s in my DNA—like most guys everywhere—to love movies in which they’re blowing shit up. Lots of shit; the more the better. In this new occasional series I’ll be...
by mike | Mar 11, 2019 | Baseball, California, Fantasy, Research, Uncategorized |
I’m old enough to have watched the original Twilight Zone series when it was new. It ran for five seasons, from 1959 to 1964, and was one of my favorite shows. Thanks to Netflix I’ve been watching it once again, and having just started the second season, I’ve got a...
by mike | Jan 21, 2019 | Books, California, Editing, Historical Novels, Native Americans, Nightmares, Non-Fiction, Research, Uncategorized, Writing |
When writing historical novels based on true events, the challenge is to not make the scenes read like dry, academic research for a thesis. My award-winning historical novel, Stone Woman: Winema and the Modocs, offers many examples of how (hopefully) not to bore...
