by mike | Dec 27, 2018 | Books, California, Historical Novels, Native Americans, Romance, Uncategorized, Writing |
A few years back I wrote about a remarkable Native American woman named Winema, the “Modoc Woman of the Brave Heart.” She is the main “character” in my award-winning historical novel, Stone Woman: Winema and the Modocs. Billed as A WAR STORY; A LOVE STORY; A TRUE...
by mike | Dec 13, 2018 | Films About Writers, Movies, Research, Sports Movies, Uncategorized, Writing |
This is a compelling film that I first wrote about in 2015. Not a whole lot of folks saw the sports drama, Resurrecting the Champ—“inspired by a true story”—during its short theatrical run in 2007.That’s too bad, because it is an excellent film, and Samuel L....
by mike | Dec 6, 2018 | Books, Mystery Novels, Uncategorized, Writing |
Sherlock Holmes is absolutely one of my favorite fictional characters. This post first ran in 2015. Victorian-era writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created two of the most memorable characters in all of fiction: amateur sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his chronicler, Dr. John...
by mike | Nov 12, 2018 | Books, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
A magazine called Astounding Science Fiction, later renamed Analog Science Fact and Fiction, was highly influential in bringing the sci-fi genre into the mainstream many decades past. One of its editors, John W. Campbell, also wrote for the magazine, and in 1938 he...
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...
by mike | Nov 1, 2018 | Books, Editing, Publishing, Read & Critique, Research, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writing |
Here is a point that I always made clear to my writers. I first presented this post in 2015. Back in my salad days, when I took on just about any writer who had a pulse, I worked with a woman from the Midwest—let’s call her Helen—who had written, according to her,...
