MICHIGAN AUTHOR
Michigan Author is a site by an author for authors, writers, editors, and readers.
Editors
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.
– Jodi Picoult
Writers
As for ‘Write what you know,’…I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things…better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Readers
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
– William Faulkner
Authors
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
– Stephen King
Posts
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Hello world!
As my first post, this blank page tempts me to try something incredible, eye-popping, absolutely arresting! The importance of the written word, as well as the spoken word, is almost too great for words. But, I think I’ll resist. It’s much simpler just to say, hello. So, Hello World! It’s nice to meet you. I…
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The Clockwork Girl: CHAPTER 2
Pip groaned. She felt numb all over. Do I still have arms and legs? Or a body? Or a head? Maybe I’m dead? Although she always thought being dead would feel more floaty and ghostlike, or kind of like being a cloud. As feeling came back she just felt like lead all over, instead. I…
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Authors Hit the Art Fair Instead of the Book Fair
On August 21, 2021, I was able to interview a small group of local Michigan authors who participated in signings and selling their books at the Arts & Drafts art fair, held at Ross Park, in Norton Shores. I met author Jean Davis, from Holland, who shared a book signing tent with Lon Hieftje of…