by mike | Jul 5, 2021 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
A reader in the UK, one of my 17 international fans, š recently wrote me to say that his old copies of my Sword & Sorcery novels, Berbora and Flight From Berbora, had disintegrated and blown away on a slight breeze. I advised him that I had rewritten and reissued...
by mike | Jun 17, 2021 | Death, Films About Writers, Humor, Movies, Music, Uncategorized, Writing |
Still going strong at age 87: thatās Shirley MacLaine. This post first ran in 2017. It is always a pleasure to see eighty-something Shirley MacLaine on the silver screen. Sadly, not a whole lot of people saw her perform in the 2017 comedy-drama, The Last Word....
by mike | Jun 10, 2021 | Books, Editing, Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
By this time I have rewritten and reissued all of my previously published novels, a monumental task. This post first ran in 2017. Over the past few years Iāve been busy rewriting and reissuing many of my novels, the ones that were published from the late 1970s through...
by mike | May 24, 2021 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Native Americans, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
You likely know how that sentence ends. More about it shortly. In a previous post, āWriting Humor: It Doesnāt All Have To Be Funny,ā I documented how my first comedy/science fiction novel, Bicycling Through Space and Time, came to be published in the ā90s. Berkley...
by mike | May 3, 2021 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
I thought you might get a hoot out of the first few pages of my latest literary gem, Back on the Bike Path. Since I hadnāt written anything for a while, it surprised me that I managed to ease into the story so effortlessly. But when my character, Jack Miller, is a...
by mike | Apr 26, 2021 | Aging, Baseball, Books, Death, Humor, Life, Mysteries, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Writing |
When 2020 began, I had no idea that Iād be writing a whole lot of posts over the course of thirteen months while hiding out at home to avoid the nasty coronavirus. (Age and underlying health issues gave Jacqueline and me no choice.) Things are finally looking up, and...
