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  • About Michael
    • Biography
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    • Telluride Blood
    • American Gothic
    • The Vampire’s Violin
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    • The Vampire Virus
    • The Vampire Princess
    • The Vampire Papers
    • I, Vampire
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Hell Lite, Week 3

Step 1. I go to the dentist. I think I have an abscessed tooth. “No, you have a sinus infection. See your physician.” Step 2. I tell the doctor I… Read more »

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“Trust Me, I’m Lying”

Enjoying this book very much. Subject: How easy it is to manipulate the media and public opinion. Highly recommend. But evil. Author Ryan Holiday’s pitch on Amazon: “You’ve seen it… Read more »

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Summer reading

Every year a new crop of “summer beach read” lists springs into being. Most, like the essential summer book list I just glanced at on The Huffington Post, look as… Read more »

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Aaron Sorkin & me

I signed up for Aaron Sorkin’s screenwriting class on a whim. It looks interesting and well produced, and Sorkin definitely knows the business. I’ll have to be careful not to… Read more »

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On listening to advice

Occasionally I am guilty of rank hypocrisy. One of the single biggest mistakes I see in organizations is when someone in charge assumes they know everything they need to know without… Read more »

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Regarding “Neverwhere”

Does “Neverwhere” really need a 1,753rd review on Amazon? Probably not, but that is not going to stop me from writing one. Neil Gaiman is a creative virtuoso. In “Neverwhere,”… Read more »

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In quest of the great white whale*

The new book, “Telluride Blood: I, Vampire,” has been out a few weeks now, and the learning process continues. By way of context, I quit writing fiction 10 years or… Read more »

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Writing & jazz

Addictions tend to be bad things. Smack, vodka, pornography, even food; you get addicted to any of these, and it is safe to hazard you have a problem. Or problems, more… Read more »

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16 indie Kindle book mistakes

Here are 16 problems I’ve spotted with indie Kindle books I’ve seen promoted on Twitter in the past couple of days. And by problems with “books,” what I really mean… Read more »

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A Yankee’s take on the Gothic South

We spent a long weekend in Alachua County, Florida, in an area known as Haile Plantation. Thomas Evans Haile was a South Carolina cotton grower who established a plantation near Gainesville in the… Read more »

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