by mike | Jan 23, 2025 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Research, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized |
My next book is still in the “thinking” stage. This post first ran in 2022. When the pandemic drove us indoors in early 2020 (and wiped out the NCAA basketball tournament; I’m still not over that one…), I found a number of ways to keep busy. At that point I hadn’t...
by mike | Dec 5, 2024 | Aging, Books, Editing, Publishing, Read & Critique, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writing |
A really troublesome client did me a big favor. I first presented this post in 2021. To be honest, I had planned on working into my seventies—where I am now. As a writing coach, editor, and teacher I totally enjoyed what I did, especially when I saw so many of my...
by mike | Aug 29, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
This time travel novel, The Sword of Tyron, is one of my earliest efforts. I first presented this post in 2021. A reader in the UK, one of my 17 international fans, 😊 recently wrote me to say that his old copies of my Sword & Sorcery novels, Berbora and Flight...
by mike | Jul 25, 2024 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Native Americans, Publishing, Uncategorized |
Writing has always been a great outlet for me to vent, and it always will be. This post first ran in 2021. You likely know how that sentence ends. More about it shortly. In a previous post, “Writing Humor: It Doesn’t All Have To Be Funny,” I documented how my first...
by mike | Apr 25, 2024 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Publishing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
“Oh, you’re a writer, but what do you do for a living?” Well, if you are a writer, you’ve probably heard that question in one form or another. I sure did, even more so than the one directed at my four horror novels. Unfortunately, in my case it was a valid question...
by mike | Apr 18, 2024 | Books, California, Editing, Horror, Native Americans, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
Yes, writers do get comments like this. I first presented this post in 2021. The above quote, with a few variations, was something I heard numerous times after the first of my four horror novels hit the shelves over thirty years ago. People knew me as a rather quiet,...
