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Using Kickstarter as a Book Launch Tool

January 1, 2022 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

I’ll be writing more about this when my Kickstarter for my mid-century modern novel Nowhere, New Mexico finishes later in January. So far it has been a great success. I’m taking notes of what things I did and the advice I got along the way from author friends and others who have used Kickstarter successfully […]

Filed Under: blog, Bunker Books, How To, Nowhere Tagged With: authors, book launch, kickstarter, writing

The Return of Realism

February 16, 2017 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

By “falsity” I mean this: within a fiction story the distinct elements of the plot need to have some anchor in reality – in the world we actually live in. Even if a story is set in outer space or deep into the future or in the made-up fantasy world of Middle Earth, there needs to be a sense of reality and truth, such that this event or place or action could have happened somewhere that is real.

Filed Under: blog Tagged With: realism, story, writing

Living Beyond Off-Grid as a Scifi Writer

May 11, 2015 by Michael Bunker 4 Comments

Not long ago I was in a hardware store in a small town not far from our farm. I was with my son buying plumbing parts for a water project for the farm. Robert and I were at the register with our PVC valves, couplers, and adapters when the clerk, a friendly local fellow named Buck, started […]

Filed Under: blog, Brother Frankenstein, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Living, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: brother frank, Off-Grid, writing

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