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The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot - A Series Overview

What’s it About? Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are a pair of hard-luck adventurers for hire with an unfortunate knack for landing jobs that pay too little and threaten their lives too much. Erika Racewind is a hardened elven warrior who doesn’t like people, except maybe when she’s killing them. Winifred Graceword is a kindhearted elven priestess skilled in the healing arts. David is a…

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Weekly Update - December 10, 2024

It was a productive long weekend for me, and two more projects are one step closer to completion. First, the newest draft of The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot — which I think is going to have the subtitle of A Wanton Criminal — is done and that book is ready for editing. Next, I got my editor’s notes back on The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour, so that’s in the formatting and…

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Action Figures - A Series Overview

What’s it About? The series focuses on Carrie Hauser, a 15-year-old girl who one summer experiences two life-changing events: her parents announce they’re getting divorced, and she gains superhuman abilities after encountering a dying extraterrestrial after he falls to Earth. Her adventure begins after Carrie and her mother Christina move back to Christina’s childhood home town of Kingsport,…

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Weekly Update - December 10, 2024

Bit of a slowish week this week. My main project is the next draft of book eight in the Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot series, which is moving along well. At this point, it’s mostly about tightening up the text and making sure all the story points line up as intended. After that, I’m likely going to work on draft three of the second Legacies book, and once that’s done, get back to work on…

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Station Identification Time

Who Am I? I’m a writer originally from Falmouth, MA who now lives in Oxford, MA with my awesome wife Veronica, two dogs, and four cats who don’t like to let us sleep in. After 15 years with the Falmouth Enterprise, where I worked as a general and political reporter, blogger, and editor, I left the news industry to focus on my creative writing. In addition to my novels (more on that in a…

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Weekly Update - December 3, 2024

Last week was pretty busy for me. The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour is off to the editor, Action Figures – Legacies got its final round of revisions, and the next book in The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot series is starting its final revisions this week. My goal for 2025 is to release all three over the course of the year, though the precise scheduling will depend on my covert artist’s…

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Well-Behaved Women - A Series Overview

What’s it About? Rose Booker remembers how she died. Both times. Rose’s pursuit of the truth behind those memories leads her to discover that she was in a past life the legendary pirate queen Mary Read — and that she’s not the only infamous historical figure who has returned from the dead. Who is this Series For? Well-Behaved Women is an urban fantasy trilogy featuring a predominantly female…

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Weekly Update - November 19, 2024

First, quickly, The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour, is heading out for editing. If my timeline holds, I’ll have the edited manuscript back by the end of the year, and then it’ll be a matter of getting the cover art done, and my artist Tricia is already brainstorming ideas for that. Now, onto a topic that may be of interest to other writers out there, and maybe to readers as well, and that…

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The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot - A Series Overview

What’s it About? Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are a pair of hard-luck adventurers for hire with an unfortunate knack for landing jobs that pay too little and threaten their lives too much. Erika Racewind is a hardened elven warrior who doesn’t like people, except maybe when she’s killing them. Winifred Graceword is a kindhearted elven priestess skilled in the healing arts. David is a…

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Weekly Update - November 19, 2024

Some good news on the writing front! My current project, The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour, is out to beta readers for feedback, and I have an editor lined up to tackle the project when it’s ready for that stage of the process. That last bit is a big deal because this will be the first project in several years that will not be handled by my usual editor, Julie Tremblay. She’s got a lot going…

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Action Figures - A Series Overview

What’s it About? The series focuses on Carrie Hauser, a 15-year-old girl who one summer experiences two life-changing events: her parents announce they’re getting divorced, and she gains superhuman abilities after encountering a dying extraterrestrial after he falls to Earth. Her adventure begins after Carrie and her mother Christina move back to Christina’s childhood home town of Kingsport,…

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Weekly Update - November 12, 2024

How’s everyone doing? Seriously, how are you doing? If the answer is, “Shitty. I’m angry ands scared,” then yeah, I’m right there with you. Last week did not turn out how I’d hoped — how it should have turned out. A lot of people in my life are, like you, angry and scared. Probably more the latter. Among those angry, scared people are all the queer and POC creatives who are now terrified that…

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Station Identification Time

Who Am I? I’m a writer originally from Falmouth, MA who now lives in Oxford, MA with my awesome wife Veronica, two dogs, and four cats who don’t like to let us sleep in. After 15 years with the Falmouth Enterprise, where I worked as a general and political reporter, blogger, and editor, I left the news industry to focus on my creative writing. In addition to my novels (more on that in a…

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Weekly Update - November 5, 2024

November already? Yikes. Anyway, a couple of important things. First, quickly, is my suggestion to skip formal participation in NaNoWriMo this year, for reasons I’ve gone into before, so I won’t rehash them now. Second: if you have no voted already, today’s the day to get that done, and I’m going to urge you in the strongest possible terms to vote for Kamala Harris. At this stage I’m betting…

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The Best of the Rest

If you enjoy Michael’s full-length novels, check out these anthologies, collections, and side-projects featuring his work. Available on Amazon, and signed print editions may be purchased directly from the author. Beneath the Mask – A Superhero Romance Anthology features ten tantalizing tales of masked heroes saving the day and falling in love. From sweet saviors to steamy angelic warriors,…

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Weekly Update - October 29, 2024

Vacation week! Which I am mostly spending in my office writing, because it’s cheap and relaxing. Not much else to report, really. WRITING PROJECTS Action Figures – Legacies: Third draft in editing stage. Action Figures – Untitled sequel to Legacies – Second draft completed. The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – untitled book eight: Third draft completed. The Adventures of Strongarm &…

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Well-Behaved Women - A Series Overview

What’s it About? Rose Booker remembers how she died. Both times. Rose’s pursuit of the truth behind those memories leads her to discover that she was in a past life the legendary pirate queen Mary Read — and that she’s not the only infamous historical figure who has returned from the dead. Who is this Series For? Well-Behaved Women is an urban fantasy trilogy featuring a predominantly female…