Michael Throws the First Pitch at Yankee Stadium

It was an unbelievable honor to throw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium last night (went with my patented side-splitter). I’m most grateful to the Yankees and Hachette Book Group for the chance. Unforgettable night.     For the record, equipment...

Michael Makes History with E-Book Giveaway

Article from  Shelf Awareness June 28, 2016:   In an unusual book-and-baseball promotion, the first 10,000 fans 18 years and older at tonight’s game between the New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers (go, Yanks!) at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y., will...

Michael Talks Changing Industry with the Indianapolis Business Journal

Indianapolis Business Journal reporter Lou Harry traveled with Michael to the 2016 BookExpo America, which is the nation’s largest industry-only gathering for the book publishing business. You can read the article here, and learn more about how Michael is adapting to...

What Are You Doing, Writing a Book?

Sept 29 was the release of the mass market edition of THE PROPHET, which, I have to say, looks handsome in its new jacket. I like the imagery – the empty football field under the lights, a dark unknown town somewhere beyond. That suits the tone I had in mind opening...

A Note on Character and Voice

When I wrote books in first-person, I inevitably heard readers tell me that they thought I was Lincoln Perry. He and I were one and the same. Not the character, of course, but the voice. I’ve heard numerous writers, all of whom I greatly admire, dispute this notion...
New story released!

New story released!

Michael’s short story THE APREX PREDATOR takes readers back to the territory of Lincoln Perry — only this time, told through the eyes of one of the detective’s criminal associates, Thor, a character who appeared in both TONIGHT I SAID GOODBYE and A...