Michell Plested's Blog, page 46

Cowards!

My young friend, Mik Murdoch, informed me that the owner of this website has been kidnapped, along with his entire family by the despicable villain, Lord Aquarius. What has he done wrong other than to write the book Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero and edit your wicked compendium A Method to the Madness: A Guide to [...]

Caught in the Crossfire (HELP!)

As many of you witnessed a few days ago, the young superhero, Mik Murdoch (whose adventures are documented in Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero) posted an opinion piece on this website decrying the ‘bully’ tactics of certain villains. He had heard through trusted sources that the super-villains of the world (many of whom have written articles for A Method [...]

Super Villain or Super Bully?

Hi there. My name is Mik Murdoch and I’m a superhero. A boy superhero to be exact. You may have heard of me. My friend, Michell Plested, who has written about my adventures in the novel ”Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero“, invited me to talk about some attention I am getting from the super-villain community. I, of [...]

Get Published Episode 106 – J Daniel Sawyer and Creating Audio Books

On today’s show I have J Daniel Sawyer, a writer, producer, podcaster and voice-over artist. His list of fiction publications, both long and short-form are approaching fifty and he has been known to talk about contracts and copyright on occasion. Dan has recently released a book on creating audiobooks and we talk about that and [...]

Excitement is Building

For those of you who don’t know, I am co-editing an anthology (titled A Method to the Madness: A Guide to the Super Evil) with Jeffrey Hite. This is a project that we conceived more than a year ago over Twitter. We decided it would be fun to try our hands at creating an anthology and [...]

I Have a New Short Story Coming Out on Every Photo Tells

By the title, you can probably guess that there will be some pimping going on in this post. You would be right, but that isn’t the sole purpose of the post. The good folks at Every Photo Tells have a very interesting premise for their short story podcast. Every month they post a new photo on [...]

Get Published Episode 105 – Comedy Writing with Ira Nayman

On today’s show I have Ira Nayman, a Canadian comedy writer who has written both books and screenplays. He was also a writer/performer in a comedy troop in the 80′s. Ira and I talk about writing and comedy and several other things that we found funny at the time. I also provide a review of [...]

Keeping Track of Your Characters

I just had an OMG moment while writing book 2 of Mik Murdoch, currently titled, Mik Murdoch and the Power Within. I have been moving along quite nicely in the writing when I realized something. I had named one of my new, main female protagonists the same as one of my baddies from the first book. [...]

Cross Promotion

The Internet is a wonderful tool if you know how to leverage it. It provides each of us with the opportunity to reach most of the world’s population. That is kind of a staggering thought. I could have BILLIONS of people reading my blog, hearing about my books and interacting with me on a daily [...]

Get Published Episode 104 – Red Tuque Books Does Distribution

On today’s show I have David Korinetz who is the owner of Red Tuque Books. Red Tuque Books is a book distributor in Canada. David and I talk about book distribution and some of the challenges small presses face. I also talk about book reviews. Why they are important and how I personally handle them. [...]