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 | Apr 15, 2024 | Books, Fantasy, Horror, Nightmares, Research, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Writing |
Circumstances preclude my presenting a new post for today. But here is one of my favorites from long ago. What’s the deal? A guy who writes horror, fantasy and other weird stuff thinking that creativity is a curse? To be honest—no, not the majority of the time. My...
by mike | Apr 8, 2024 | Books, Fantasy, Research, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
Circumstances preclude my presenting a new post for today. But here is one of my favorites from long ago. Everything I write—everything that just about all novelists write—begins with those two words. I prepare detailed outlines for my stories, so that I always have a...
by mike | Apr 1, 2024 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Research, Uncategorized, Writing |
Circumstances preclude my presenting a new post for today. But here is one of my favorites from long ago. Many writers dislike research. I’m just the opposite. For me, research is one of the most important and fun things that I do. This post tells the story about one...
by mike | Feb 8, 2024 | Books, Editing, Research, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
To me, walking is more than just exercise. I first presented this post in 2020. Yes, I mean that literally…but not in a nasty way. Quite the opposite. I’ve written over two dozen novels and countless stories, articles, blog posts, etc., and there has been one...
by mike | Sep 15, 2022 | Baseball, California, Fantasy, Research, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
Robert Sorrels, the subject of this story, passed away a few months after I first published the post in 2019. I’m old enough to have watched the original Twilight Zone series when it was new. It ran for five seasons, from 1959 to 1964, and was one of my favorite...
