June 21, 2024, Literary Update…

Hi, My novella, Flood and Fire (as of 06-10-2024) is currently just over 32,000 words long, which is approaching a respectable length for a novella. There’s still more to write, but since I usually cut out 10% or more of my first draft when I edit, I think it will work out well. More info …

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I Called This Meeting Because…

001 San Diego Portfolio Group, 2004

[This is the first of a series of newsletters I’m sending to my mailing list. The date below was the date it was sent out. I’ll archive them here on the blog a week after they are delivered to my subscribers.] Newsletter 001, October 22, 2021 Hi— About the image above: In the late 1990’s, …

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My Reading Habits

Picture of Michael at a NaNoWriMo event

Background  When I was younger (pre-teen through high school) I read a great deal. All sorts of things. Sci-fi, adventure, classics, horror.  Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, H. P. Lovecraft, etc. I’ve added other authors to the list since then, of course, too many to mention …

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