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, đ 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, âWriting Humor: It Doesnât All Have To Be Funny,â I documented how my first...
by mike | Apr 25, 2024 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Publishing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
âOh, youâre a writer, but what do you do for a living?â Well, if you are a writer, youâve 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,...
by mike | Mar 21, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
With a fifth book in the series on the horizon, here is my 2020 post about book #4, Back on the Bike Path. Okay, I donât normally capitalize my headlines, but hey, this is a big deal for me. Somehow Jackâs favorite alien, the Old Guy, forgot about him for a long...
by mike | Feb 12, 2024 | Books, Bookstores, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writing |
Iâve been through starts and stops with my writing career. At present Iâm in a âholdâ pattern, for unavoidable reasons. I addressed one of the âstopsâ at a long-ago book launch for my novel, The Burning Ground, one that I repeated shortly afterward as keynote speaker...
