by mike | Jul 26, 2021 | Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized |
Film actors and actresses—especially the most creative ones—will deviate from a script more often than you’d think. Some of the most iconic movie lines were improvised. Here are a few of them. “I’m the king of the world!” When Leonardo DiCaprio stood on board the...
by mike | Jul 19, 2021 | Mystery Novels, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
Abe Lincoln, our 16th president, is remembered for a great many achievements. The commissioning of the Lincoln Canes is probably not one of them…but it should be. ACKNOWLEDGING THE PUEBLOS I first read about the Lincoln Canes in Tony Hillerman’s novel, Sacred Clowns,...
by mike | Jul 12, 2021 | Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
The Florida city of St. Augustine, located on the Atlantic coast and founded in 1565 by explorers from Spain, is the oldest European-established and occupied settlement in the U.S. It is also home to one creepy old haunted lighthouse—if you can believe the legends. A...
by mike | Jul 5, 2021 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
A reader in the UK, one of my 17 international fans, 😊 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 28, 2021 | Death, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I could easily have presented the 1998 horror flick, Vampires (aka John Carpenter’s Vampires) as a Guilty Pleasure, since it met all of my parameters. (A D+ rating by audiences, no less!) But I gave it a pass because it was filmed in New Mexico, one of my favorite...
