Hi, The previous post was about my problems finishing the novella that I plan to use as a giveaway to start building an audience for my upcoming thriller, The Jagged Man. After I published If a Butterfly, I spent (wasted?) most of 2022 implementing a very time-consuming (but moderately successful) e-mail advertising campaign for both …
Hi, The TEE (TransEsophageal Echocardiogram): Friday, 9-10-2025. Essentially, they stuck a tube down my throat, slid some specialized equipment through the tube down into my esophagus in order to get an accurate picture of my heart. The esophagus runs directly behind the heart, and passes within a few millimeters of the left atrial chamber …
Hi, Surgery Update: I started writing this on Friday, 10-4-2024, but didn’t finish it for almost a week (Thursday 10-10-2024). I’m posting it today (Friday, 10-11-2024). My hand surgery, after a couple of last-minute incidents, went as well as I could have hoped, but… Six days before the scheduled surgery date, I got a text message …
Hi, A couple of posts ago I promised to give you a more thorough accounting of what my surgery will entail. It is scheduled to happen tomorrow, so here’s what my basic symptoms are, and what I’ve been told will happen during and after the surgery. Symptoms: I was very flexible when I was younger. …
[Originally posted on my former blog, Michael Runs the Gamut] A couple of weeks ago, a question was asked at the [now defunct] Fiction Writers and Editors Group at LinkedIn. It was simply, “What are you working on?” After I had responded, along with a hundred or so other writers, it occurred to me that …