Showing off my diastema with my friend and publisher Kathy from Wisconsin Historical Society Press (they published my latest book, From the Top). We were selling books and meeting writers…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

I’ve written previously here and here of my appreciation for good copyeditors. For the last two days I’ve been reviewing the copyedits for my next book (a middle-grade novel due…View post