by mike | Apr 20, 2017 | Books, Humor, Life, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
A humorous book doesn’t have to be all funny, and a serious book doesn’t have to be all serious, as I first discussed in this 2013 post. I’ve learned a lot in life through trial and error, or by accident. More specifically, this can be applied to writing. We could...
by mike | Apr 17, 2017 | Life, Non-Fiction, Travel, Uncategorized |
Did the newlywed couple drown in the river and get washed out to sea? Were they murdered? Or did aliens abduct them right out of their boat? Nearly ninety years after Bessie and Glen Hyde set off down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, their disappearance...
by mike | Apr 3, 2017 | Books, Death, Holocaust, Life, Research, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I’ve chosen this time to re-run a post from a few years back. Why? Because it seems that EVIL is running rampant, not only around the world, but also in our own country. And if anything, it is getting worse. This morning my bride picked up the main section of our...
by mike | Mar 16, 2017 | Aging, Life, Uncategorized |
I wrote this post in 2013 and have since turned seventy. Naturally, I wrote about that too. Check out “Oh No, Seven-Oh!!!” Let’s clarify one thing right up front: we are ALL aging, every day, every minute. Doesn’t matter whether you’re seventy-two, or forty-two, or...
by mike | Feb 27, 2017 | Books, Editing, Life, Read & Critique, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
What does former National Basketball Association great Bill Russell have to do with leading classes and workshops about writing novels? I’ll tell you…shortly. But, first things first. MY STUDENTS NEVER KNEW I began facilitating novel-writing workshops in the early...
by mike | Feb 2, 2017 | Baseball, Life, Native Americans, Travel, Uncategorized |
Even though I first presented this post in 2013, I still haven’t made it to the Devil’s Tower. Maybe my aversion to flying has something to do with that? But I may just make it this year. Stay tuned… The term “bucket list” is defined as a list of things that one must...
