Michael G. Munz

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse – Ch 12

June 14, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Riordan certainly is making a Herculean effort in writing The Titan’s Curse!
(I’m not Apollogizing for that pun. …Or that one.)

The Apollo-train runs out of juice, the Erymanthian Boar shows up, and it’s not even the least of their problems. All this and a LOT of haiku on the twelfth installment of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse…

I Go Snowboarding With A Pig

Inspired by Apollo’s efforts earlier in this book, I have decided to review this chapter entirely in haiku! Think you can take it? Brace yourself, because ready or not, here we go!

Hey, those last two sentences were a haiku. Cool. 😉 [Read more…]

Guest Geeks: K.M. Alexander

June 10, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Welcome back! (Look at me, typing as if I’m welcoming you back from a commercial break or something. I’ve been watching too much Conan.) Given the big ol’ “Guest Geeks” up there at the top of the page, the more attentive among you have likely already picked up on the fact that it’s time for another guest to the blog who will help me fill it up with something geeky. This time we’ve got Lovecraft fan and fellow writer K.M. Alexander, who I met for the first time at Norwescon in April after learning of his writing from the Seattle Geekly podcast folk. Here’s here to talk about everyone’s favorite Lovecraftian insanity-entity, Cthulhu… So let’s give a big “Ai! Ai! Alexander fhtagn!” and read on, because he makes a very good point about…

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse – Ch 11

June 6, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 4 Comments

Wait a minute. Doesn’t D.C. have a subway system? That’s what Fallout 3 taught me, anyway…

An escape through a subway that doesn’t exist, boarding a train car of cars, and Percy earns my praise and ire in the span of a few paragraphs. In other words, it’s time for the 11th chapter in Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse…

Grover Gets a Lamborghini

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Playing, Reading, Watching

June 4, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 2 Comments

I should really be writing A Dragon at the Gate at the moment. That’s what I sat down here to do. Yet it’s been a long day, my brain is frazzled, and so it’s revolting and craving leisure. So in an attempt to placate my lazy-ass brain while at the same time at least appearing to get something done, I’m going to take a cue from the Geek Bomb podcast folks (who were good enough to have me on their show last fall) and geek out with you a little over what I’m playing, reading, and watching. [Read more…]

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse – Ch 10

May 30, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

For no apparent reason, I decided to go with French.

Lions, spacecraft, and spears: Oh, my! All this and an Order of the Stick reference (from me, I mean, not in the book) in a speedy little chapter known as part 10 of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse…

I Break a Few Rocket Ships

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Writing Update: A Dragon at the Gate

May 29, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

It’s been a little while since I checked in with you folks to give a status update on A Dragon at the Gate. For those of you who’ve only come here for my Farscape rewatching or Percy Jackson reading, A Dragon at the Gate is the third and final book in my cyberpunk series known as The New Aeneid Cycle. Don’t let the “dragon” in the title fool you: this is sci-fi set in the mid-21st century.