30 Jan I Wanna Go Fast
Today I was in church, walking down an empty hallway and ran into an older gentleman I am friendly with. "When's your next book coming out?" he asked. "That's the question, isn't it?" I started. "You see...
Author: Mike Bockoven
12 Jan What’choo Watching – 1/11/17
The wife and I are revisiting Twin Peaks. She's never been before but I spent a season and a movie there in college. I never made it to the second season but looked up the big "Bob" reveal at the end of season 2, grappled with...
10 Jan 10 Lessons From The Year I Got Published
By most measures, 2016 was the year I became a writer. That’s weird to say, as I spent 7 years in the trenches at a medium sized newspaper and wrote, literally, millions of words written by hundreds of thousands of people, but the words felt like...
20 Nov Recommendation – Great Jones Street
\ Publishing a book has changed my reading habits drastically. Like a lot of you, I endeavored to read "a lot" and even went so far as to catalogue my book consumption and join Goodreads to provide feeback on what I've read. But toward the middle of...
04 Nov I Owe Someone A Freakin’ Fruit Basket
It's still new to me that people are reading my debut novel (FantasticLand, available for sale now at Barnes & Noble, Amazon and other fine retailers), but it's been almost a month since the book has come out and the response has been...