by mike | Apr 28, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post, an homage to my muse, was the first of two, both of them from 2012. The second one will appear next week. In the 1980s I published a sword & sorcery novel titled, The Twentieth Son of Ornon (reissued a few years ago as The Sons of Ornon). It might have...
by mike | Apr 21, 2016 | Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Yes, I do write a lot about Field of Dreams, the best movie ever. Here is my original post, which I did in 2012. It began as a short story by Canadian author W.P. Kinsella in an anthology of baseball stories titled, Shoeless Joe Jackson Come to Iowa. Later on,...
by mike | Apr 7, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized |
I actually watched this old guilty pleasure a few weeks ago. Here is what I wrote about it in 2012. In a previous post I mentioned that the “guilt” in guilty pleasures comes from worrying about what others might think about one’s tastes, maybe seeing you as a real...
by mike | Mar 28, 2016 | Books, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Uncategorized |
Actually, I could have launched a new series with this 2003 fantasy: “Films About Literary Characters.” There sure as heck are enough of them in the story. But The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, starring Sean Connery as Allan Quatermain in his last screen role...
by mike | Feb 4, 2016 | Books, Editing, Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post from back in time talks about a two-word phrase that, without question, is an integral tool in every novelist’s toolbox. Everything I write—everything that just about all novelists write—begins with those two words. I prepare detailed outlines for my...
by mike | Feb 1, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Fantasy, Life, Mystery Novels, Psychological Thrillers, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
Like most Americans these days, I worked full-time into my late sixties. During all my adult years I probably could have made some time to partake in one of my favorite endeavors: reading books. One problem: for most of that time I worked as a writing coach and...
