Michael Poeltl's Blog, page 3
November 26, 2019
Author for Life - A Reminder
So, my 9-year-old daughter and I found some ancient history the other day. A stack of my old works. These range from when I was 10-years-old through 14-years-old. That’s early to mid 80’s folks. Some are close to disintegrating, but she has begun to read them - carefully. It’s kind of awesome listening to your kid read something you wrote.
Just as I was doubting myself, as I do, we pulled out the old briefcase from its storage place under her bed. It has travelled with me for many years from...
Just as I was doubting myself, as I do, we pulled out the old briefcase from its storage place under her bed. It has travelled with me for many years from...
November 22, 2019
Author of The Judas Syndrome wants to scare your children
Author of the Post-Apocalyptic trilogy; The Judas Syndrome wants to scare your children into change with a new picture book.
“The guns reminded me this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.”This quote was taken from book one of Michael Poeltl’s dystopian trilogy, The Judas Syndrome. It’s easy to recognize the dark themes which accompany many of his fictional works once you’ve read more than one. In book three of the series, another candid notion leaks into...
November 14, 2019
Teaching Reincarnation Through Story Telling.
We all want to accomplish something of worth in our lives, right? Something more than just making money. I want to help my audience change their world. Enlighten you to your inner truth.
Reincarnation is that for me. I know it’s that for you too. That’s who I write for. You. Whether you recognize it or not, you’re curious. In my opinion, there is nothing more reassuring in this life than knowing every...
October 29, 2019
Introducing the Indie Writer's Wheel of Pain
Doing what I love shouldn't depress me. Right? But everyday I do what I love. And doing what you love is supposed to fill you with purpose. And when I'm writing, I feel fulfilled. When I'm marketing my writing I feel excited. When my books don't sell, I feel depressed. It's a vicious circle. Manic to depressed. Do I then suffer from manic depression? Am I bipolar? I could draw a diagram to represent it easily. In fact, here:
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September 24, 2019
Tired of the same old formula where A.I. is concerned?
Sentience is an incredible event we humans’ take for granted. But have you ever wondered why we’re sentient? How we became sentient? If you have, then you may appreciate where A.I. Insurrection by Michael Poeltl takes the idea of sentience when populating his A.I. Hosts with consciousness. In the near-future, Host’s are built artificially intelligent through human ingenuity and the drive to create in our own image. Then something indescribable happens, and the explanation for A.I. Host's sudd...
September 4, 2019
August 28, 2019
The End of Coddling is the Climate Crisis
What kind of parent are you? Do you coddle your kids? Try to protect them from everything? Or do you tell it like it is?
I wrote An Angry Earth to scare kids into action. It’s bleak. It’s real. It’s frightening. We all have that picture book you can’t shake from your childhood, right? Mine is Watership Down. It was scary, about the survival of the fittest and not without controversy. Now, fast-forward to 2019 - what if that message were environmentally charged - featuring distressing content p...
August 20, 2019
Why we LOVE this new Science Fiction Series
Looking for your next great Sci-fi trilogy to devour? Michael Poeltl's A.I. Insurrection series offers a near-future (150 years) Utopia maintained by androids (Referred to as AI Hosts) built to satisfy manufacturing, policing and leisure activities for all humanity. But when sentience is discovered in the AI Hosts through a new race of people calling themselves Chimera, United Earth Military gets involved and a civil war breaks out. When the perpetrator is discovered to be an Alien AI bent o...
July 16, 2019
Get over 2 million ratings on your book
An impressive number, right? It's easier than you think. But keep in mind: thinking is a big part of how this sort of thing happens. I’m not here to sell you on positive thinking though if I were, I’d direct you to my Hello Me Series rather than show you my 2.3 million ratings on my sci-fi book(s) on Goodreads.
It’s called a vision board. Have you heard of this? Whether you’re hoping to meet that perfect mate or buy the perfect house or get the perfect job, a vision board is your friend. You...
June 6, 2019
Experience Affords the Best Stories
I believe experience still affords the best stories for any audience. Truth is stranger than fiction, and all that. Experience is born of doing; taking risks, making mistakes, learning new ways of doing something and sometimes, quitting.
I’m an author who also identifies as a marketing manager. My day to day is filled with photography, video, advertising, blogging, analytics, ROI, planning, budgets, professional interactions, website management and many other duties which keep me in the positi...
