Hi, The previous post was about the next few novels or novel series I intend to work on this year and for several years after that. My main focus at the moment is on trying to finish my novella, Flood and Fire, but it hasn’t been as easy as I originally hoped it would be. …
Hi, Most of us mark our sojourn on this planet in days and months and years, using a solar cycle. Every 28 to 31 days almost all countries on Earth shift to a new month, and every 12 months they shift to a new year. There are a few exceptions, of course. A little over …
Hi, [Medical and Literary Updates: I’m still finding it difficult to focus for long periods of time, which makes the writing more difficult, of course. Some of it’s mental fuzziness, although most of that disappeared after I stopped taking pain medication, The rest of it is because of my daily routine now. One of the …
Hi, [Medical and Literary Updates: I’m finding it difficult to focus for long periods of time, which makes the writing more difficult, of course. Some of it’s mental fuzziness, although most of that disappeared after I stopped taking pain medication, The rest of it is because of my daily routine now. One of the things …
Hi, Health Update: As usual, I’m writing this in bits and pieces. Wednesday, 11-13-2024. was the last day I was required to wear my splint 24 hours a day (except for showering). I took it off before I showered that morning, and will leave it off from now on, except for a while when I …
Newsletter 63 – May 24, 2024 Hi, In Newsletter #62 I covered some of my medical issues and how those are hampering my ability to write. Nothing has been decided about my hand surgery yet. Minay and I will probably visit the surgeon together, sometime in June, to discuss all of my options. In this …
Newsletter 039 – May 26, 2023 Hi, Quick Update: The first draft of Flood and Fire is now about 26,000 words, but far from complete. I’m working on it a couple of hours a day, in between video training on some of the software I’ll talk about below. I usually lose a quarter of the …
Newsletter 035 – March 24, 2023 Hi, In the previous newsletter I mentioned that I do try to write and edit for several hours each day, but sometimes life’s little interruptions keep that from happening. I’m often awake before sunrise, and a recent day was no exception. That day I woke up around 5:00 am …
Newsletter 009 – February 25th, 2022 Hi, About the image above: Late in the afternoon on May 15th, 2010, Minay and I arrived in the town of Little Sutton, about five miles across the River Mersey from the Beatles’ original stomping grounds. I desperately wanted to go over and wander along Penny Lane and see …
[Originally posted on my former blog, Michael Runs the Gamut] At last summer’s WLT Agents & Editors Conference, in Austin, Texas (June 21-23, 2013), I was finally ready to seriously pitch my thriller, The Jagged Man. I thought the book was ready, too. I had been working on it for several years, but I felt …