by mike | Jan 1, 2024 | Books, California, Horror, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writing |
First of all, Happy New Year! For my first post of 2024, I hearken back to my first of four horror novels. Originally titled The Well and published by Bantam Books, the book is now called The Modoc Well and is part of my own imprint, Atoris Press. In addition to being...
by mike | Dec 28, 2023 | Aging, Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
It’s not exactly “fun” revisiting posts that I wrote during the pandemic. But at least we don’t have to deal with it now. Day 7,658 of the Coronavirus Pandemic—okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, though for many of us I’m sure it feels like that, am I right?...
by mike | Nov 30, 2023 | Aging, Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
It wasn’t exactly a fun time back in 2020, when this post first ran. But it WAS memorable. It’s July already, and this freaking coronavirus shows no sign of letting up. Truth be told, it’s only getting worse, and with no vaccine in sight it appears that we’re in this...
by mike | Jul 10, 2023 | Books, California, Death, Ghosts, Horror, Romance, Uncategorized |
Indeed, I strongly believe that statement. Think about it: what would Tarzan’s life be like without the challenges of the beautiful but deadly jungle? Or the scientists and staff in John Carpenter’s The Thing without the starkness of Antarctica’s ice and snow? Or...
by mike | Jun 26, 2023 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Native Americans, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
My four-book comedy/science fiction series, which began with Bicycling Through Space and Time, depicts the mostly outrageous adventures of mountain bike rider Jack Miller along the cosmic tunnel called the Ultimate Bike Path. But “outrageous” occasionally turns to...
by mike | Apr 27, 2023 | Books, California, Horror, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writing |
Sometimes I cringe when I read some of the bloody scenes that I wrote in The Modoc Well, my second horror novel. I first presented this post in 2019. By way of self-evaluation, The Modoc Well (originally published as The Well by Bantam Books) is the goriest of my four...
