Michael G. Munz

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 8

July 21, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Alternate title: “Styxin’ It To Hades”

“Perhaps you’d like it back in your cell, your Percyness?” The events behind that shoehorned-in Star Wars quote and more on the eighth chapter of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, a.k.a…

I Take the Worst Bath Ever

Okay, so I was reaching for a good way to open this post, and I couldn’t find one, so I just went with Star Wars. Because reasons. Well, also because Percy was in a cell, and then soon after his escape he has quite possibly the most physically painful experience of his life. Worse than the feeling of jumping into a pit of boiling acid—times fifty? I know I’d want back in my cell. [Read more…]

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 7

July 7, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Alternate title: Realizing Nico Is Hitler's Half-Brother

Alternate title: I Realize Adolph Hitler Is Nico’s Half-Brother

Grover stops hitting the snooze button and everything goes to Hades! All this and more on the seventh installment of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, or as Riordan called this chapter…

My Math Teacher Gives Me A Lift

This one’s another react-as-I-read entry, so hold on to your butts. Before I even start in, from that chapter title I’m immediately expecting…oh, what was her name, anyway? From the first book, she was an erinye/fury. I keep wanting to say Mrs. Davenport, but that’s my seventh grade math teacher. [Read more…]

Did I Choose My Genre? Or Did It Choose Me?

July 3, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Those two questions up there in the title were recently asked of me by a couple of other authors (well, with pronouns adjusted properly), and, after a bit of conversation, out popped this post.

It’s an interesting question to us writer-folk, and I’m betting it is to some of you reader-folk, too. Why do we write what we write, and how did we arrive there? My control-freak, gut reaction is to say that I choose my genre. I’m in control of my own destiny! I make my own choices! I not a robot, I am a human being!

Bioshock joke. Would you kindly just ignore it if you don’t get it?

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 6

June 26, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Alternate chapter title: Home Is Where the Hellhound Is

You can’t go home again. But you can go to Luke’s home again. Unless you’re Luke, because he’s a little borked up right now. But then again, so is Luke’s home. This rambling series of sentences must mean that it’s time for the sixth chapter in Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, referred to by those in the know as…

My Cookies Get Scorched

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 5

June 19, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Alternate chapter title: Satyrs Needin’ A Smack

Big dogs, fat satyrs, and shadow-hopping! It must be time for the fifth chapter in Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, aka…

I Drive My Dog Into a Tree

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 4

June 9, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Alternate title: Four Giant Evil Badgers and a Funeral

Dreams, disputes, and dealing with doom! All that and more forced alliteration on my part in the fourth chapter of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, known to the rest of you as…

We Burn a Metal Shroud

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Now (Re)publishing via Red Muse Press!

June 1, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

And so it begins!

So you heard the news a few weeks ago: Booktrope, the publisher I signed with in 2014, went out of business as of May 31st. As I retain the rights to my books, I’ve chosen, for the moment, to republish them myself under my own imprint. I’m now pleased to present to you the name of that imprint, along with its own fancy-ass logo!