Audiobooks and Harrietha Voice Overs
A shoutout to Mark Harrietha at Harrietha Voice Overs. We’re almost done with the audiobook for The Patience of a Dead Man and it’s sounding “Killa.” https://hvoaudio.com/
Entries by Mike Clark
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I’m looking to build my audience and I’ll do my best to make it worth your while. What do I want? Just to be able to tell you when I’ve got a new book or short story out. What am I offering? Maybe you could be a “Beta Reader” and read my newest book […]
New Cover Art
I’m excited to launch the new cover for TPOADM today! Why’d I do it? Well, there’s a clue right on the cover…”Book One“. That might be a bit of a spoiler to those who haven’t read it, but if you’ve made it to this page, then you deserve the truth. Yes, “The Patience of a […]
Early concept art and ideas
A ghost story is a mood (or a string of them) hopefully. If you don’t feel it, then it isn’t scary, and what’s the point? When I write, I think like a director. Yes, I’d love to see my book(s) as movies. The only reason they’re books is that I didn’t go to college to […]
How I came up with the title
I didn’t have a solid idea for a title for “TPOADM” until late in the game. My working title was “Two Stones in the Grove,” and deep down I knew it didn’t roll off the tongue. After more than a year of thinking about it, TPOADM popped into my head (I don’t remember the actual […]
Growing up in the house that inspired TPOADM
I lived in the house that inspired TPOADM from age 5 to age 9. It wasn’t haunted (and there was no turret), but it seemed huge to me; there was so much land… If mom wanted us home for dinner we could have been in a number of places; catching frogs at the pond, playing […]
What makes a ghost story scary?
Roald Dahl is famous for children’s stories such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach…but he was also a big fan of ghost stories, even putting together a compilation written by many different authors called Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories. In the introduction, he describes the ingredients of a […]
Why I decided to start writing
I’m old enough now to have seen ideas get recycled in many different ways, and to be honest, I find it boring. I’m a big movie fan and I’ve seen dozens of straight-up remakes, and movies that share very similar plots. In short: cliché after cliché. Frustrated, I felt I could do better and that […]