by mike | Dec 9, 2014 | California, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
My previous posts in the “Films About Writers” series, Finding Forrester and Misery, featured fictional writers. In the 1979 movie, Time After Time, we have a real writer, H.G. Wells, put into a fictional story—with some interesting results. Wells—referred to as...
by mike | Dec 5, 2014 | Books, Humor, Life, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
Dude, you gotta read this book! About a year ago I had the great pleasure of working on The Everweed State (subtitled E Cannabis Unum; how cool is that!) with author Rebecca Baumgartner, who had a good deal of help with research from her husband, Tracy. This...
by mike | Dec 1, 2014 | Disaster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
It is not for lack of box office that the 2003 sci-fi/disaster flick, The Core, is a guilty pleasure, because it supposedly made back its production budget, and then some. It was, however, a critical disaster, with crummy reviews panning everything from its plot...
by mike | Nov 24, 2014 | Books, Editing, Historical Novels, Native Americans, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
I managed to nab the URL of mikesirota.com a long time ago, and ever since then it has connected people to my Mike Sirota Writing Services website. That time has come to an end, as I’ve officially retired from coaching writers, and evaluating/editing manuscripts....
by mike | Nov 17, 2014 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
In a recent post about movie quotes I used the most familiar one from the 1951 classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Though I hadn’t seen the movie in a long time, I still remembered the alien catch-phrase from it: “Klaatu barada nikto.” So I decided the time had...
by mike | Nov 10, 2014 | Books, California, Historical Novels, Native Americans, Research, Uncategorized |
No, this post is not about a song from Frozen. (Great song, though.) I imagine you all know the old saying that begins, “If you love something, let it go.” Well, that’s exactly what I have just done with a historical novel, titled Stone Woman that—for me—has been a...
