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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 - July 29, 2025

This was a slow writing week, but that’s okay because I’m working my stage combat muscles with Studio Theatre Worcester on its production of The Minutes — which I know I’ve mentioned recently, but it’s been a while since I talked about how stage combat experience helps with my writing. One of the things I learned about putting together a stage fight is how to tell a story with that fight. Bad…

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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 - July 22, 2025

Let’s get the writing stuff out of the way: I did some writing Sunday. Woo, go me. Now, onto a more interesting topic which is the new Superman by James Gunn. I caught it last week and had a lot of fun. I can’t say whether it was the best Superman movie ever, but it’s definitely in the top three (like many folks, I grew up on the Christopher Reeve version, so I have a soft spot there). It got a…

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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 - July 15, 2025

As regular followers might know, in addition to my writing, I’m periodically involved in local theater, mainly as a stage combat instructor and fight director. This summer had been a bit down and up in that regard for me. My summer classes at the Hanover Conservatory unfortunately did not get enough sign-ups to warrant the class going forward, which was a serious downer, both monetarily and in…

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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 - July 8, 2025

The long July 4 weekend is behind us (my workplace gave us Saturday off figuring nobody would be coming in), which means our annual July 4 double feature of Independence Day and Jaws is in the bag. Obviously, we watch these movies because they take place on or around July 4. In Independence Day, the big takedown of the alien invaders happens on July 4, and in Jaws, Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) is…

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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 three cats who don’t like to let me 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 - July 1, 2025

It was a productive weekend on the writing front! My wife was away visiting family, so it was just me at home with the fuzzies and the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises). It was the first time in several years I’d watched any of the Nolan Batman movies, and the first time I’d ever watched them in a single sitting — which I highly…

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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 - June 24, 2025

Sorry, folks, another slow week to report, but I have a whole weekend ahead of me to write. My wife will be visiting family in New York so it’ll just be me and the fuzzies, and since they don’t like board games… I realize these down weeks don’t do anything to engage folks, so I’m going to think of some kind of regular filler material I can put here so you poor people don’t have to spend so many…

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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 - June 17, 2025

It’s another slow-ish week writing-wise. I’m trying to shake up my brain by putting aside my current WIPS and working on something completely new, plus I have a new round of stage combat classes coming up soon AND some fight director work for Studio Theatre Worcester, and sometimes channeling my creative energy elsewhere primes me for some more productive writing days. It’s the weird ebb and flow…

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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 - June 10, 2025

From a writing perspective, it’s a slow week. Work is getting done, but nothing momentous has happened. From a writing perspective. From a life perspective, my wife and I are currently enjoying our favorite new leisure activity, which is constantly checking the app that allows us to monitor our new solar panels. They went live last week, just in time for summer and all the glorious money-saving,…

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Station Identification Time

FYI, I’m posting this today in place of the normal weekly post because A: nothing really happened this week, and B: I forgot to post in on Thursday. D’oh. 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 three cats who don’t like to let me sleep in. After 15 years with the Falmouth Enterprise, where I worked as a…