by mike | Sep 24, 2018 | Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Uniformly poor reviews? A box-office bomb? Yes indeed, the 2000 sci-fi thriller, Red Planet, fits within all the parameters of a guilty pleasure. But as noted many times before, I’m easily entertained, so I have no problem checking it out every once in a while. A...
by mike | Aug 27, 2018 | Books, Bookstores, California, Editing, Historical Novels, Publishing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
The second annual San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books took place this past Saturday at Liberty Station. Last year’s inaugural event drew upwards of 10,000 people, and I’m pretty sure the 2018 version outdid that number. I got to sign my two award-winning novels,...
by mike | Aug 20, 2018 | Blowing Shit Up, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized, War Movies |
When bestselling author David Morrell wrote First Blood in 1972 I’ll bet he didn’t imagine the film series, starring Sylvester Stallone as decorated Vietnam vet John Rambo, extending into 2019. Wait, what?! They’re making a new Rambo film? That’s the word, with...
by mike | Aug 6, 2018 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Just how scary is the 2018 thriller, A Quiet Place? Okay, perhaps you’ve seen a Cox commercial where a woman is watching Stranger Things and sitting on the edge of her couch looking seriously freaked out. That’s about what this jaded horror aficionado looked like all...
by mike | Jul 19, 2018 | Books, Films About Books, Films About Writers, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Publishing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
As a writer I still get creeped out just thinking about this film. I first presented this post in 2014. Authors, athletes, actors—heck, just about everyone in the public eye—all have a Number One Fan. Or two. Or a thousand. Even I had some Number One Fans back in the...
by mike | Jul 5, 2018 | Books, Editing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
When it comes to writing, old rules are still good rules. This post first ran in 2014. In my centuries of evaluating and editing manuscripts I’ve probably been through five million of ’em. (Wait, I’m not supposed to exaggerate; it’s only one million.) With that large...
