by mike | Sep 2, 2014 | Aging, California, Life, Uncategorized |
“Hi, I’m Mike, and I’m a head case.” Okay, I hope that didn’t prompt you to counter with the typical twelve-step response, because if it did, I gotta worry about you. 🙂 Tell the truth, we’re probably all head cases when it comes to one thing or another—something...
by mike | Aug 4, 2014 | California, Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Years ago, when I set my ghost story, Fire Dance, in the Anza Borrego Desert east of San Diego, I had no idea just how haunted this bleak landscape actually was. Well, I do now. The following stories are courtesy of the Paranormalistics, a highly trained team of...
by mike | Jun 10, 2014 | Books, California, Editing, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Research, Uncategorized, Writing |
My Native American-themed ghost story, The Burning Ground, was first published a couple of years ago, weeks after I started this blog. I gave an interview about the story back then, and now that I’m re-releasing the book under my Atoris Press imprint—and since so many...
by mike | Nov 18, 2013 | Books, Bookstores, California, Editing, Publishing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
With regard to novelists, I’ve written a great deal about listening to the voices of experience when it comes to a writing coach/editor. I shared the following story some years ago in my newsletter and figured it would be just as relevant today. VINCENT WHO? I...
by mike | Aug 19, 2013 | Adventure fantasy, Books, California, Guilty Pleasures, Holocaust, Horror, Life, Movies, Native Americans, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
Yep, no kidding—this is post number one hundred since I began “Swords, Specters, & Stuff” in late January of 2012. I hadn’t even thought of reaching that number till about a month ago, when my dashboard indicated that I had just posted number ninety-five. Close...
by mike | Aug 13, 2013 | California, Holocaust, Life, Movies, Native Americans, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Does that title offend the living crap out of you? It did me, believe it. I didn’t make it up; it is attributed to a United States Army officer in the late nineteenth century. More on that shortly. The line would become the buzz phrase for many non-reservation Native...
