by mike | Feb 14, 2022 | Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The long wait is almost over! (Drum roll here.) Jurassic World Dominion is scheduled to open in theaters on June 10th. I haven’t seen a film inside a movie theater in years, but I will make an exception for this one. I mean, it’s dinosaurs, right? Even better: it...
by mike | Feb 10, 2022 | Books, Life, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Women, Writing |
The demeaning of women, a problem that just doesn’t seem to go away. I first presented this post in 2018. Recently, I discovered something about myself that, quite honestly, I did not like. It has to do with a fictional character: Dirk Pitt, the ubiquitous creation of...
by mike | Feb 7, 2022 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Research, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
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 written a new book in years, but circumstances being what they were, I decided...
by mike | Feb 3, 2022 | California, Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
I had no idea that I’d come to one of the most haunted places in the country when I visited Alcatraz many years ago. This post first ran in 2018. If you’ve been to San Francisco (who hasn’t), you probably rode the ferry across the bay to Alcatraz Island. You took the...
by mike | Jan 31, 2022 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
It is about time to announce (trumpets, here) that I am hard at work on a new book! The Horrors of Harrmel, a Sword & Planet spoof, is a sequel to my 2016 novel, The Wizard from Harrmel, sub-titled The Weird Adventures of Bernie Smith on the Distant and Deadly...
by mike | Jan 27, 2022 | California, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, War Movies |
Will we ever see another Planet of the Apes film? Hollywood says that one is in the works…but you know Hollywood. This post first ran in 2018. If you read this blog, you may recall that Part Four in this series appeared a little over a year ago. At that time War for...
