by mike | Apr 25, 2019 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Paranormal, Publishing, Romance, Uncategorized, Writing |
Is “Romantic Horror” oil and water? Or bacon and eggs? This post last ran in 2015. My ghost story/horror novel, The Burning Ground, contains enough juicy, gory, creepy scenes to satisfy the horror purist. But the story is also about relationships—in particular the...
by mike | Apr 11, 2019 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Less bloodshed, more scares…that’s what make for a good horror movie these days. This post first ran in 2015. I, for one, am glad that in recent years, horror filmmakers have decided that scaring the crap out of people is more important than grossing them out by...
by mike | Apr 1, 2019 | Ghosts, Movies, Myths & Legends, Non-Fiction, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
File this one under “unsolved mysteries,” an incident that has confounded researchers, as well as ordinary people, for over a century. How did three lighthouse keepers on Eilean Mòr, site of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, vanish one day without a trace? Eilean Mòr is...
by mike | Mar 7, 2019 | Books, Editing, Ghosts, Horror, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
Here is a post that first ran in 2015. Useful writing tips never become outdated. WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE! To some writers, “outline” is a dirty word (much like “synopsis”). To others, it is an indispensable tool in helping to craft their stories. As for me—well, during...
by mike | Feb 11, 2019 | Fantasy, Ghosts, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
That’s a good question. Last week I mentioned that a Ghostbusters sequel was on the way in 2020. So I had to ask myself, is that what I really want? Assuming this actually gets off the ground—Hollywood’s development hell can be exactly that—I’m just not sure. ONE OF...
by mike | Feb 4, 2019 | Ghosts, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
A couple of weeks ago the word out of Hollywood was that a new Ghostbusters movie would be hitting the silver screen in 2020. It would be directed by Jason Reitman, whose dad, Ivan, directed the original Ghostbusters in 1984. Since that classic film is one of my...
