by mike | Sep 28, 2020 | Books, Editing, Research, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
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 consistency over the decades that I’ve been engaged in this: I do my best preliminary...
by mike | Aug 15, 2019 | Books, Horror, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
I modeled the writers’ and artists’ colony in one of my novels, Demon Shadows, after this amazing place. This post first ran in 2015. For well over a century the artists’ community called Yaddo, located in Saratoga Springs, NY, has nurtured creativity by giving...
by mike | Feb 27, 2017 | Books, Editing, Life, Read & Critique, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
What does former National Basketball Association great Bill Russell have to do with leading classes and workshops about writing novels? I’ll tell you…shortly. But, first things first. MY STUDENTS NEVER KNEW I began facilitating novel-writing workshops in the early...
by mike | Sep 29, 2016 | Books, California, Horror, Native Americans, Publishing, Research, Uncategorized, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
Writer’s block has been around since primitive men and women had difficulty deciding what to scrawl on cave walls. This 2012 post would have been relevant even back then. Okay, I don’t mean to belittle a malady that is prevalent among so many writers. It’s just that...
by mike | Feb 11, 2016 | Books, Editing, Humor, Nightmares, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
Back in 2012, when I facilitated workshops at the Hunt Country Writers’ Retreat in Virginia, I finally got to meet Ken Kraus for the first time. Ken is a New Jersey-based writer of speculative fiction, and while I’d worked with him on and off for years as his editor...
by mike | Jan 14, 2016 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Publishing, Research, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
Are the happenings weird—or is it me? You be the judge after you read this post from 2012. In a recent post I wrote about my trip to Downieville, in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills, to do some background research for my ghost story, The Burning Ground. Some weird...
