Michaelk

FanStory wrote to Michaelk: Congratulations! Fair won the contest "Horror Story Writing Contest"

Michaelk: Just wanted to share the fantastic news. I've been signed by a publisher for my first novel!

Michaelk: Fragments of Fear is now available in paperback.
http://www.createspace.com/6478668

Michaelk: Has anyone had any success with finding a publisher for a first time novelist?
My novel is done and I'm looking for a publisher.

Michaelk: My self-pubbed short horror anthology, 'Fragments of Fear' is free on amazon until midnight tonight.


www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CRZMEB8?*Version*=1&*entries*=0

Michaelk: Rough edit done. Getting ready to send it off for a line edit.

Michaelk: I'm going on hiatus for a while. Recent events in my life have shown me that I need to focus on the future. I'm going to work on getting my novel edited and hopefully published. I'll still drop in from time to time.

Michaelk: Attending my father's funeral in a few hours.

Michaelk: Scenes from a marriage, vol 6, by Mark Valentine has been selected as a nominee for story of the month.
Be warned. If you read it, you will laugh your ass off! :)

Michaelk: Royowen called me 'The Twister' in a recent review, so I thought I would pick a profile pic that reflected that. :)

FanStory wrote to Michaelk: Congratulations! Daddy won the contest "Horror Story Writing Contest"

Michaelk: If you want to laugh your guts out, just read 'Scenes from a marriage, vol 6' by Mark Valentine.
I'm still pushing my guts back in. :)

Michaelk: Show of hands. How many refreshed their browser at least a dozen times yesterday, hoping that this would be the time the site was back up and running?

Michaelk: Wow! Time warp. All of my writing is gone. I guess I get to rewind to January 2014 before I had posted anything.

Michaelk: I should send my new profile pic to my dentist. :)

Michaelk: Tis the season for a new profile pic. :)

Michaelk: Loving my new profile pic.
Here's looking at you...yes, you. I'm watching you. Muhuhahaha. :)

Michaelk: Wow! I don't know if it's just me, but it seems like there are an awful lot of intimate (horny) writers on Fanstory right now. And that's not a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination.
The posts I've been reading, it just seems like one after another is about sweet, sweet love. But one rises above them all. (unintended pun)
'Who was bettered?' by I Am Cat.
Fair warning, if you read it, have a glass of ice water ready to splash in your face.

Michaelk: Must...log...off...Fanstory...and...do...work...

Michaelk: It always amazes me how quickly a good day can turn into a bad day.

Michaelk: Between vacation and my computer acting wonky, I've fallen woefully behind with reviews and replies. I'm trying to catch up now.

Michaelk: Former Fanstorian, Mike Battaglia has published his popular, 'Danforth State Mental Hospital' stories as a book on Amazon. Check it out at,

The Danforth State Mental Hospital
by Mike Battaglia
Link: http://amzn.com/1503000982

Michaelk: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." I get the concept, but if you really think about it...
So life should be brutally sliced in half, having its vital fluids and entrails spilled out, then ground up until there is nothing left but a useless husk that you discard. Then you should take the fluids and entrails and drink them?

I really hope life doesn't give me lemons. :)

Michaelk: Huge congrats to fellow 'Tiny Tales of Terror' author Ridley Williams. Both of us were nominated in the Book of the Month contest.
Hopefully that will make Dean feel a little better.

Michaelk: Happy Father's Day to all!

Michaelk: I learned a valuable lesson today. Sometimes my muse is just wrong. Sometimes a great story concept just falls flat and can't be revived no matter how much I work on it.
These are the times when it's best to throw that puppy into the 'future source material' file for possible recycling at a later date, and move on.

Michaelk: It's been a long couple of months without Fanstory, but I'm finally working my way back.
Soon I'll be just as obnoxious as I ever was...huzzah!!
Seriously, it's great to be back home where I belong.

Michaelk: Life events still have my writing and reviewing on the back burner. Hoping to return soon. Missing my Fanstory family.

Michaelk: Life intruding big time on my writing. Hopefully things will settle down soon.

Michaelk: So I said to my three year old daughter, "You need to stop whining."
She looks me in the eye and says, "I'm not whining, I'm crying."

Michaelk: The funny thing about perspective is, you can't gain it without seeing some things you don't want to see.

Michaelk: Very stressed right now with all those irritating details of this thing we call life.

Michaelk: What's worse than writer's block?
Writer's block when you're in the middle of writing half a dozen different stories, a novel, and a script.

Michaelk: "New blood joins this herd, and quickly he's subdued. Through constant pain, disgrace, the young boy learns their rules."
Does that sound like any site we all know and love?
We really need a better way of orienting newbies into the fold.

Michaelk: Here I go again. Every time I get in a writing groove, I 'take a break' to check Fanstory. Three hours later, I'm still on Fanstory without having written another word.
I hate to say it or even think it, but Fanstory is killing my writing!

How is that even possible?

Michaelk: Have you ever noticed that you never get to 'There'? Every time you get to 'There' it becomes 'Here'.

Michaelk: If you're happy and you know it...

Michaelk: 'Something old, something new', my post about the new changes to Fanstory. Tell me if you agree or if I am way off base.

Michaelk: Thank you Fanstory for the new look. You have single-handedly done what I have been unable to do for the last eleven months, break my addiction to Fanstory.
I'm not sure when I'll post again, if ever.

Michaelk: Novbember 18th, 8 degrees outside!
I @$^#&$ hate winter!!!

Michaelk: What one question immediately makes your IQ drop 50 points?

"Dad, can you help me with my homework?"

Michaelk: If a picture is worth a thousand words and a movie shows around forty pictures every second, how many words is a movie worth?

Michaelk: I just had a thought...
...
Oops, I lost it, never mind. :)

Michaelk: I was listening to some music on the way to work that I hadn't listened to in many years. One thought kept recurring in my mind, 'Wow! They sound like they were so high when they wrote this.'

Michaelk: Just saw a fantastic picture on Fanartreview that would be great for a romance story or a horror.
'El Amor Duele' by Jairos.
Check it out.

Michaelk: MARCO...!

Michaelk: If you stood on the international date line, with one foot on one side and one foot on the other, then set your watch to be one minute fast, would you be living in the past, present, and future all at once?

Michaelk: I just had a frightening thought...What if the Hokey-Pokey really IS what it's all about?!?

Michaelk: I am going to focus on doing one thing today.

Michaelk: To everyone who read 'The Journey' I want to first say thank you. Second, I have posted the first of two or three scripts that are written as outtakes and/or bloopers to that story. I think you will enjoy it.

Michaelk: I've reached the end of my journey (the collection of short stories) I want to thank everyone who read and enjoyed this series of stories.

Michaelk: There's just something about that feeling. You know the one. When you've got your theme and your characters, you're writing as fast as you can and the story is unfolding in front of your eyes. You're not even sure where it's coming from and events that come from your own mind surprise you as you type them out.
Yep, that's the zone.

Michaelk: Break out of your rut idea #2
Reverse your morning routine. Whatever you normally do first, do last, and vice versa.

Michaelk: Break out of your rut idea #1:
Skip on the treadmill instead of walking or running.

Michaelk: When life gives you lemons...write a poem about it. :)

Michaelk: I don't understand contests and writing prompts that say, 'Let's have fun with this' and then charge five bucks to enter.
I would have entered many more contests but I didn't have time to review enough to cover the entry fee plus have time to actually write the story.
That's why the last two contests I created have a two dollar entry fee. I want people to have fun and not go broke in the process.

Michaelk: I would like to apologize to all those who were contemplating entering my contest 'The Sequel'. Unfortunately I made a mistake and set it to 'blind' entries. Being that this is a contest for sequels, reading the original work is desirable, but nearly impossible to find with blind entries. However this contest cannot be changed at this point. I may do another sequel contest in a few months, with the correct parameters this time. Thanks for understanding and good luck to all those who do enter.

Michaelk: Created my first contest. 'The Sequel', check it out.

Michaelk: Very happy and honored to split the 'Sunday, Monday, Doomsday' contest win with rod007.

Michaelk: ( Mike collapses in a heap as he clicks the mouse button and posts the epilogue of his first novel. In a raspy voice he whispers) "It is done." :)

Michaelk: Boo yah!! I got my first review star!

Michaelk: My apologies, apparently I published chapter 28 of 'One on one' out of order.

Michaelk: Really feeling in a groove with 'One on one'. Getting some great input. Thank you all!

Michaelk: I've been absent a little bit lately. Trying to fix this novel, plus other things, has kept me from being as active as I want. I will try to post chapters to 'One on one' in a more timely manner.

Michaelk: Wow! I am very happy to have my first 'recognized' work. Thank you to all those who reviewed 'Rex'.

Michaelk: Thanks to some well meaning criticism, 'Man child' has been overhauled a bit. I think it is an easier read now. Thank you very much to those who cared enough to point out some weak spots in this story. Please continue to do so.

Michaelk: I finally got around to getting a subscription! Woo Hoo! Now I can annoy the crap out of everyone by posting my useless, underdeveloped, stories. (Just kidding)
Please remember to be brutal when reviewing.

Michaelk: I am so glad I 'discovered' this site. Getting to read all these stories and poems is a real treat. I love the rating system, and hope to soon post some of my own work.
If I review your work, and say something that upsets you, please let me know. That is not my intention. I just want to honestly help make a work the best it can be. I expect no less from reviews that I receive on my work. That's one way we grow as authors.