I’ve always enjoyed writing but you may be amazed to learn, I’m not
so much of a reader. I used to skip parts of high school reading
assignments because reading would put me to sleep. I started writing
when I was a teenager on a sci-fi time story but couldn’t finish because of my
lack in knowledge about government affairs in cold war time. Once I
stopped I got busy with jobs I held and life in general until
2006/7 when I wrote a totally new sci-fi book of science fiction and real time
science mix together in a time traveler adventure story, The Traveler the beginning, which is out now.
My writing schedule is sporadic. Unfortunately, with
my almost always weekly changing work schedule I have no structured
writing schedule so I can go weeks and months without doing a single thing and
then I get a weekend or week of down time and, wham, I may write entire chapters all at once.
Publication has been a long, sometimes tedious and unfulfilling
road with a lot of disappointment -much of it was caused by my former
publisher. Looking back, after I spent around a year of researching what I
needed to know about Indie publication vs. publishers vs. using
agents I still didn’t know nearly enough. While I was searching for a
publisher and found a Christian based place whom I called. We made a deal and
arrangements for the books but over time I started to see a trend at the
publisher who really wasn’t helping much since the books went public. A
year and a half into it I fought to market myself and do mostly everything
including foot huge multi-thousand dollar bills to get known while trying
to balance life, several family tragedies and an ever-changing monthly career schedule.
It’s taught me a lot, which I believe as a Charismatic Christian and author I
probably needed as part of a great future that is still being written! Because
of the hard road I was forced to take I believe I will be able to offer my
reading fans someone awesome surprises in the future – which I am currently in
progress of now. Hint, hint!
I have two other books in progress right now – a Christian
fiction and another sci-fi. With God’s help I plan to complete these very
soon. I’ve already done the leg work to lower my EBook prices from where the
publisher had them and I am dedicated to the readers to make them more
easily attainable by everyone worldwide. There’s also a new website coming
February 2017!
My future plan is to commit to writing full time and get myself
out of the eighteen-year computer and networking career that I am currently
working in.
One favorite thing I
enjoy is doing the book autograph signing events. It’s that excitement of
seeing the person’s face after we’ve talked some about their lives, the book and
about me. Second, I think once I’ve finally written the book as well and
completely as I can before it goes to someone to edit and I see how the
entire story has run its course - that makes the time and effort worthwhile.
When I’m not working or
writing, I like to watch the Sci-Fi channel, documentaries or science shows on
T.V. and attending family get-togethers like cookouts and birthday parties and
other events.
There are two books currently out in EBook format. I am pleased
to include a brief few paragraphs from them both here thanks to my interview
host. My inspired non-fiction Christian
book “Life Explained a Journey to Selfless Love”;
Chapter 1 Love—Real Selfless Love
I was a
little unsure where to begin and how to open this book in a way that would grab
the reader’s attention, so as I wrote this sentence, I just placed it into the
hands of the Lord, that He would write it for me and through me. I wanted to
allow him to be in control without taking a chance that my limited human
knowledge and abilities would ruin the content of the subject matter of these
very important chapters.
Health and
longevity of life ties to quality of life, and that’s something we all need and
many of us feel we are deserving of. The Bible references long life and quality
of life as being tied together and tied to keeping of the Old Testament and New
Testament scripture readings. Some of you are saying, “This is absolutely true
and for real,” and you have seen firsthand accounts of it and the results of
keeping up with it consistently. Now there’s the other half of you who are
partially or even totally against it. Keep reading on. I personally have seen
the results, speaking as a person who was raised Catholic and a churchgoer but
who would waver or fall away, as they say, because I would allow life, work
schedules, and my laziness to interfere and draw me away. Many fall prey to
that because we are submerged in a lifestyle of desiring things that are
pulling us in multiple directions daily.
“Enter
through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad the leads to
destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and
the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few that find it.” (Matt.
7:13–15, nasb)
The path is
selfless love and commitment to the God, who is love itself.
By the time
I reached my late forties, life had taken a toll on me, as it does to us all,
causing us to harden ourselves to survive; even if we remain good people, after
decades on this planet, we lose our true selves. We lose part of the humanity
the Lord designed for us to have. I took time to help people, tried not to
break the law, and obeyed my parents, for the most part, and all those things
that supposedly make us nice people. Like many of you, I worked hard and
remained vigilant to my beliefs and responsibilities to myself, family,
friends, job, and other life-related things. One night as I was going to bed, I
knelt beside the bed and cried out to the Lord, “I give up! I can’t do this
anymore. It’s too hard. Like a broken record, life problems and struggles keep
coming back over and over again. I need help. Lord, I need your help. I will
put you first above everyone and everything— over work, family, friends,
everything—and never stop!” …
And for “The Traveler
the Beginning” the sci-fi time traveler adventure story;
THE BEGINNING
I sit
alone in my home, shielded from the outside world, abandoned by many of my
people and hounded by many others. I can hear the sounds of militant forces
encroaching into my personal living space. They are in need of answers to
questions they are not yet prepared to deal with. I am an outlaw in their eyes,
cut off by my own actions. The innocent actions that began a journey of wonder
and enlightenment have now forced me into my seclusion. The sounds of
helicopters fade in and out as they swoop in, checking the perimeter of my
yard, my confines, in hopes of my capture. In the far distance, across my long
yard, television and radio crews line the street beyond the boundaries of my
property line in either direction. The once-tranquil neighborhood where I live
has turned into a form of a battle zone, a mockery of my achievements and
significant contributions to mankind’s continuation. It’s still here, an almost
deafening silence resounding through the back of my mind while I sit and watch
their unrelenting advancements. Outside troops mass on the lawn. Jeeps, men,
and tanks tear up my gardens. Bullhorns and walkie-talkies echo orders from
commanding officers to penetrate my home and bring me out by force. I am not a
criminal and thus will fight to the end for my freedom. The shields are
impenetrable to their efforts to reach me, shy of digging deep into my grass
and tunneling under the protective barricade I have erected around my home.
Over and over they call for me to come out. It’s been going on now for several
hours. The year is 2052.
I
believe I need take you to the start of my adventures to give you a better
perspective of why this is.
The
pages you are about to read are taken from my memoirs. An extraordinary event
has unfolded itself onto me as part of my own undertaking, an event that
captured the minds and hearts of a tiny planet located in a solar system just
as small in proportion. I have been time traveling now for a total of 1,500
years, though I am now only sixty-five years old. Much of this time was spent
in various centuries living new lives and learning new cultures. I speak over
forty languages and fifteen different dialects from this planet alone. In my
adventures of time traveling, I have been to the future and to the past. I have
been through many dangerous and terrible times, seen so much beauty and
glory—more than my words can begin to describe— and beings the like of which my
imagination couldn’t begin to fathom…
Thank you Michael for being our guest this week.
Please check the links below to discover more about Michael and his writing.
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