by mike | Jul 5, 2021 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
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 From Berbora, had disintegrated and blown away on a slight breeze. I advised him that I had rewritten and reissued...
by mike | Jun 10, 2021 | Books, Editing, Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
By this time I have rewritten and reissued all of my previously published novels, a monumental task. This post first ran in 2017. Over the past few years Iâve been busy rewriting and reissuing many of my novels, the ones that were published from the late 1970s through...
by mike | May 24, 2021 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Native Americans, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
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 comedy/science fiction novel, Bicycling Through Space and Time, came to be published in the â90s. Berkley...
by mike | Jan 11, 2021 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Publishing, Thrillers, 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 | Jan 4, 2021 | Books, California, Editing, Horror, Native Americans, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
The above quote, with a few variations, was something I heard numerous times after the first of my four horror novels hit the shelves thirty years ago. People knew me as a rather quiet, passive guy (ha!), not particularly prone to any sort of violent or dastardly...
by mike | Dec 7, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
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 timeâbut all that has changed. Join an olderâand maybe wiser?âJack as he rides into Edgar Allan Poeâs head; as...