by mike | Jan 2, 2017 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Ghosts, Historical Novels, Horror, Humor, Life, Native Americans, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
As the new—and uncertain—year of 2017 begins, I’ve had a chance to look back at what I’ve accomplished in recent years. The last seven years, to be more specific, ever since the eye-opening experience of a brush with my own mortality. After surviving quadruple bypass...
by mike | Nov 7, 2016 | Books, Editing, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writing |
It’s novel-writing month or some such thing again, so I’m going to revisit my post on the matter, as I will likely do for a long time to come. My opinion has not changed. Okay, this week I’m going to be a curmudgeon—something that I do quite well, actually. There are...
by mike | Oct 13, 2016 | Books, Editing, Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post first ran in 2012. Obviously, the second Tyron novel mentioned in it was published the following year. I’ve written about this being my third writing career, with a gap of about seventeen years since my second writing career until starting up again in 2011....
by mike | Aug 22, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Publishing, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
With the recent publication of my Sword & Planet novel, Slaves of Maldrinium, I am close to fulfilling a promise that I made to myself a few years ago. The catalyst for this occurred during the start of my writing career, when I was fortunate—or maybe...
by mike | Jun 9, 2016 | Books, Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
In this 2012 post I talk about an amazing discovery that I made about one of my old book covers. These days, I get to play the “age card” for all manner of brain farts and such. It comes in pretty handy when I walk into my office and totally forget why I did, or...
by mike | May 26, 2016 | Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
I first ran this post about one of my favorite movies back in 2012. There is still talk about a Conan reboot, also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the horizon. They’d better hurry; dude is turning seventy next year! The thundering drums from Basil Poledouris’s...
