by mike | May 16, 2019 | Books, Bookstores, Fantasy, Films About Books, Movies, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
A children’s book…with an adult message. This post first ran in 2015. 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...
by mike | May 6, 2019 | Humor, Life, Movies, Native American Films, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
Earlier this year it was announced that the 1998 film, Smoke Signals, was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being “…culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” This is quite an honor for a movie that was made with an...
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 15, 2019 | Movies, Native American Films, Native Americans, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized |
In the excellent Native American film, Powwow Highway, we join Philbert Bono riding his “war pony” (A rusted, piece-of-crap Buick) as he leaves his home on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana for a “vision quest” through a number of Plains states. (See my...
by mike | Apr 4, 2019 | Books, Editing, Fantasy, Historical Novels, Horror, Native Americans, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
I’ve said before that good writing never goes out of style. Nor do good writing tips. This post last ran in 2015. Did you expect to see the word “profit” in that title? Not likely. Let me share some thoughts from what I’ve experienced over the past gazillion years and...
by mike | Jan 31, 2019 | Death, Guest Posts, Holocaust, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
By Simon Moya-Smith I have written a great deal about the abuse of this country’s indigenous People, and also about the travesty that was the Holocaust. This sobering guest article, first published on the website of the Indian Country Today Media Network,...
