Don’t know if it’s a good idea to post this. It’s a blunt, rambling, non-fact-checked but heartfelt response to a young person who is self-publishing a book and wrote to me…View post

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.