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...
by mike | Jan 21, 2016 | Books, Fantasy, Research, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
With a new Conan movie supposedly on the horizon—although I think it’s been stuck in “development hell” for a while—I’d like to revisit this post about the barbarian’s creator, Robert E. Howard. Readers of sword & sorcery, sword & planet, science fiction,...
by mike | Dec 10, 2015 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Fantasy, Ghosts, Horror, Life, Native Americans, Publishing, Research, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
With over two hundred posts in the nearly four-year existence of my blog, I thought it might be fun to revisit some of the older stories. Beginning today, in addition to the new posts on Monday I will use the Wayback Machine every Thursday to summon up the past....
by mike | Aug 3, 2015 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Native Americans, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
I’ve written a great deal about my muse, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and how as a kid I read just about all of his seventy-plus novels. His adventure stories both on (and in) Earth—Tarzan, Pellucidar, Caspak—and on other worlds—John Carter of Mars, Carson of Venus—sparked...
by mike | Jul 27, 2015 | Books, Bookstores, Fantasy, Films About Books, Movies, Uncategorized |
If the 1979 novel, The Neverending Story, by German author Michael Ende, is a book about a book, then I suppose the 1984 film adaptation, The NeverEnding Story, can be referred to as a movie about a book about a book. But why make ourselves crazy thinking about that?...
