by mike | Dec 12, 2022 | Blowing Shit Up, California, Disaster Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The discussion has gone on for decades. Is Die Hard, the 1988 Bruce Willis-fueled thriller, a Christmas movie? I’m sure you have your own take on this (non-earth-shaking) issue, but in my humble opinion…yeah, I’d say it is. Here are a few bullet points—without the...
by mike | Sep 15, 2022 | Baseball, California, Fantasy, Research, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
Robert Sorrels, the subject of this story, passed away a few months after I first published the post in 2019. 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...
by mike | Jul 28, 2022 | Books, California, Editing, Historical Novels, Native Americans, Nightmares, Non-Fiction, Research, Uncategorized, Writing |
Most of my novels were ones that I wanted to write. STONE WOMAN was one that I HAD to write. 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,...
by mike | Feb 24, 2022 | Books, California, Guilty Pleasures, Humor, Movies, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
It’s interesting to see what kind of thoughts were running through my warped brain four years ago, when this post first ran. Okay, first of all I’m writing this on a sunny Southern California afternoon, and the next storm is not expected here till at least November....
by mike | Feb 3, 2022 | California, Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
I had no idea that I’d come to one of the most haunted places in the country when I visited Alcatraz many years ago. This post first ran in 2018. If you’ve been to San Francisco (who hasn’t), you probably rode the ferry across the bay to Alcatraz Island. You took the...
by mike | Jan 27, 2022 | California, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, War Movies |
Will we ever see another Planet of the Apes film? Hollywood says that one is in the works…but you know Hollywood. This post first ran in 2018. If you read this blog, you may recall that Part Four in this series appeared a little over a year ago. At that time War for...
