by mike | Aug 20, 2012 | Books, Mystery Novels, Writing |
Last month I wrote a post titled “Celebrating a Friend” in which I shared some thoughts and feelings about mystery writer and good friend, Jeff Sherratt. At the time Jeff was quite ill, and I wanted to make sure that he, above anyone else, read those...
by mike | Aug 18, 2012 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror Movies, Movies |
Wait, what? Hey Mike, didn’t you write about this film already? Nope, this one is Anacondas, plural. This 2004 film has a whole lot more of the slithering creatures than the first one did. (Anaconda had two, so technically it could’ve been called Anacondas, but…oh,...
by mike | Aug 13, 2012 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Horror, Research, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Writing |
For you writers, or even wanna-be writers out there, this bit of information may be helpful. I first presented it as a newsletter for my writing community a while back. To some writers, “outline” is a dirty word (much like “synopsis”). To others, it is an...
by mike | Aug 2, 2012 | Books, California, Native Americans, Research, Science Fiction, Writing |
Those of us who write novels have a great platform for saying pretty much anything we want. The characters we create often reflect our likes, our dislikes, our politics, our worldviews, and many other things. And there is nothing wrong with venting our spleens through...
by mike | Jul 30, 2012 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies |
On the Weird Scale, this 1982 flick ranks pretty high. A word of warning: you might not want to eat anything while you’re watching Q, The Winged Serpent. Within the first five minutes we have a window washer high up on the Empire State Building decapitated and see his...
