Archives for April 2014

Top 5 List: Video Game Supporting Characters

April 11, 2014 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

So I’ve finally got a little bit of breathing room in working with my Booktrope team toward getting Zeus is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure ready for publication. That means it’s time for another geek-related Top 5. This time…

Top Five Video Game Supporting Characters

Note that this is for supporting characters. So there will be no Samus, no JC Denton, no Commander Shepard (just her favorite supporting character on the Citadel). This will be rather biased on the side of computer games as well, because my time as a console gamer is far more limited. I’ve been playing PC games since 1990, but my console experience is only limited to the original NES and the PS3 which I only got a few months ago.

And, as always, the list is in no particular order due to my complete inability to rank favorites. [Read more…]

Starting to feel like Apollo

April 4, 2014 By Michael G. Munz 1 Comment

Whew, it’s been a busy few weeks here. I’ve been a bit slow in updating the blog, but I assure you it’s all for a good cause. There’s a lot happening on the Zeus is Dead front, which is what’s filling up most of my time, and most of that is due to the final edit on the manuscript itself. My Booktrope editor is giving me a lot of great comments and notes. It’s making the novel even better than it was, but it does mean that much of my time is taken up in reviewing and incorporating those notes into revisions. It’s fun (and it’s fantastic to work with someone as excited about the book as I am), but time consuming. Our deadline is April 15th, so I’m working hard to meet that. [Read more…]