by mike | Oct 25, 2012 | Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Writing |
I’ve written about this being my third writing career, with a gap of about seventeen years since my second writing career until starting up again in 2011. One constant, as I’ve come to realize throughout a span of over three decades, is that the majority of...
by mike | Oct 3, 2012 | Books, Fantasy, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Publishing, Science Fiction, Writing |
No, this post is not about a cop show in Hawaii, and it’s definitely not about me approaching a significant birthday. OH, I WISH! I passed that particular milestone a long, long time ago and just kept on truckin’. So what is this all about? Well, I started this blog,...
by mike | Jun 18, 2012 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Writing |
Okay, if you read this blog you must know how I feel about Edgar Rice Burroughs—my muse, the author whose works inspired me to start writing back at the dawn of time. So do I have an opinion about John Carter, the 2012 overhyped movie named for ERB’s second most...
by mike | Jun 11, 2012 | Books, Bookstores, California, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Sword & Sorcery, Writing |
The thundering drums from Basil Poledouris’s awesome score tell me that, for perhaps the hundredth time, I’m about to immerse myself in the 1982 screen exploits of author Robert E. Howard’s most famous character, Conan the Barbarian. What can I say? I love this film,...
by mike | Jun 7, 2012 | Books, California, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Writing |
For many years now, Ray Bradbury was often referred to as “the world’s greatest living science fiction writer.” Not many people would dispute that statement. Sadly, this giant of science fiction and fantasy passed away earlier in the week at the age of ninety-one. But...
by mike | Jun 4, 2012 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Writing |
Since I’ve spent the last two posts on my favorite and most inspirational writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, I decided to continue that theme with a story about a less famous author, Otis Adelbert Kline. What does one have to do with the other? Readers of the science...
