From an upcoming interview I just completed: INTERVIEWER: How do you feel the Midwest has shaped your writing? MIKE: There is a residual stoicism coupled with a wry observational humor.…View post

Sometimes you just need to bang out a solid page, old-school.

This pen and notebook were a gift given to me in San Francisco at the end of my paperback tour for Visiting Tom. Immediately upon returning home I found myself deep…View post

Working on the next book. Saw a six-point later, but he saw me first.

Going through manuscript deleting the word “little.” A little this, a little that, a little-little-little, ad infinitum. #1 writing tic.