by mike | Jun 11, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Publishing, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
When this post first ran in 2016, the title read, “Almost Done.” I’ve long since finished what I set out to do, as you’ll see in this revision. With the 2016 publication of my Sword & Planet novel, Slaves of Maldrinium, I came close to fulfilling a promise that I...
by mike | Jun 13, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
Last week I thanked ERB for being my inspiration to write. This 2012 post details his interesting life. (A great Kindle deal on a couple of my own “lost world” novels can be found at the end of this post.) In a recent post I noted that Edgar Rice Burroughs...
by mike | Jun 6, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post is an homage to my muse, Edgar Rice Burroughs. I can never say enough about this legendary author. In the 1980s I published a sword & sorcery novel titled, The Twentieth Son of Ornon (reissued a few years ago as The Sons of Ornon). It might have been my...
by mike | Feb 21, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Fantasy, Nightmares, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post, which contains a heck of a book promotion, first ran in 2015. In last week’s post I discussed a movie, The Whole Wide World, which chronicled a brief period of time in the all-too-short life of writer Robert E. Howard. Best known for his stories about Conan...
by mike | Feb 14, 2019 | Fantasy, Films About Writers, Movies, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
Robert E. Howard was one of my muses when I began my own writing career. This post ran four years ago. Who knew? While writing a post about Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan and the acknowledged “father” of Sword & Sorcery, I did research to make sure some of...
by mike | Nov 5, 2018 | Books, Editing, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
Ah, November! I’m not even sure NaNoWriMo or whatever is around anymore, but the point I attempt to hammer home to all writers, novice and otherwise, remains valid in any month or year. So as in Novembers of yore, here is this oft-run post. Okay, this week I’m going...
