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Archives for September 2014

Pacific NW Blog Hop!

September 29, 2014 By Michael G. Munz 1 Comment

So once more, awesomebassador and fellow Booktrope author Tiffany Pitts–check out her novel Double Blind–has taken it upon herself to give me things to do. (If I don’t do what she says, bad things happen. It’s best if I not elaborate.) This time, it’s the Pacific Northwest Writers Blog Hop! So here I go…

1) What am I working on?

A Dragon at the GateIn terms of writing, I’m chipping away at the third novel in The New Aeneid Cycle, which is my cyberpunk series. It’s tentatively titled A Dragon at the Gate, and I hope to have it ready for publication by mid- to late-2015. I know people are eager to see how the series ends, especially after the final chapter of A Memory in the Black. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Authors, Booktrope, Cyberpunk, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Discovering The Last Ship and The Strain

September 21, 2014 By Michael G. Munz 2 Comments

20140921_212806About two or three years ago I decided to give up cable TV. Ironically, this was right after I got a nice new HDTV. (I won’t go into the thought process there, but it was very logical, I assure you!) Syfy wasn’t doing much that was interesting anymore, and I didn’t really watch other channels enough to make paying for cable worth it. I kept a little broadcast deal so I could get the broadcast networks clear, but mostly I subsisted on Hulu and Netflix streaming. I missed some things – USA, for one (I’ve always liked Burn Notice, and liked watching Psych when I could). I’ve also wished, from time to time, that I had access to FX again.

But my point here is that I don’t have cable, and so I’ve missed out on seeing some interesting shows (despite catching many of them – The Walking Dead and Continuum to name a few – on Netflix or Amazon). I’ve recently started chipping away at that pile of missed TV, however, and caught up with both The Last Ship and The Strain. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Movies and TV Tagged With: Adam Baldwin, FX, Geek Interest, NINJA VAMPIRE PALADINS, Review, Science Fiction, The Last Ship, The Strain, TNT, vampires, virus

A Shadow in the Flames re-release

September 20, 2014 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Booktrope_logo_color-300x233I’m behind on my blogging duties, but it’s been for  a good cause, I promise! For one, I’ve been working on writing more of A Dragon at the Gate. For another, I’ve been working with Booktrope to get my first novel, A Shadow in the Flames, ready to be re-published through them! No longer will it be a self-published novel. It’s great to have Booktrope throw in their support for ASITF.

For those of you who know me from my comedic fantasy novel Zeus Is Dead, you’ll find A Shadow in the Flames to be a different (but hopefully still enjoyable) experience. A sci-fi novel that some have called “cyberpunk but with more hope,” ASITF centers around Michael Flynn, a young man struggling to find his way in the urban, cybernetic violence of the mid-21st century. While it’s not a comedy, elements of my sense of humor do make an appearance at times, especially through the character of Felix Hiatt, a wise-cracking self-described “information bounty hunter” who features heavily in the novel. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: A Shadow in the Flames, Books, Featured Tagged With: Booktrope, Cyberpunk, Geek Interest, Science Fiction

Seattle Geekly Podcast

September 3, 2014 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

On August 24th I had the pleasure of meeting Shannon and Matt, two great local geek-types who host the popular Seattle Geekly podcast. I traveled to their studio in west Seattle to meet their feline interns and talk to them about Zeus Is Dead. Shannon also read and reviewed the book (and Matt’s now got it on his own reading list), and I’m happy to say she really liked it!

I mean just imagine how awkward things would’ve been if she’d thought it sucked, right?

Seattle Geekly

Seattle Geekly’s episode 231: My podcast debut!

You can listen to the podcast on the Seattle Geekly website here, or catch the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher…

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Filed Under: Books, Featured, Press, Zeus Is Dead Tagged With: Fantasy, Geek Interest, Interview, Mythology, podcast, Seattle Geekly

Ten Books That Stayed With Me

September 2, 2014 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

So a few days ago my fellow author Jonathan C. Bruce tagged me on Facebook in a list of ten books that stuck with him after reading. (Also, he mentioned Zeus Is Dead, so my suggestion that the publisher dip the entire book in superglue paid off.) It is therefore incumbent upon me to carry on with my own list. After all, this is the Internet, and failure to do so would cause the immediate collapse of civilization as we know it.

That’s how it works, people. Look it up. [Read more…]

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