Michael Lackey

Thoroughly engrossing interviews with a man I believe to be one of America's finest living men of letters --novelist, poet, essayist, biographer, teacher, philosopher, Parini counts Robert Penn Warren, Gore Vidal, Borges, Peter Akroyd, Seamus Heaney and many other literary greats among his friends, colleagues and mentors. Inevitably some of these pieces are a bit repetitive, as the same ground was covered by more than one interviewer, but Parini never sounds like he's tired of his subject, or working from a script. And one or two of the selections are so thought-provoking and informative that I will be re-reading them often. Especially not-to-be-missed: Parini's "self-interview", in which he gets to all the questions he wishes people would ask him.
Reviewed August 2019… (plus d'informations)

"Borrowing from mega hits like Game of Thrones, Merlin and Lord of the Rings, The Bad Seeds grows on you, pushing away the world we're living in, into a new one."

Mike Lackey, author of The Bad Seed, has created fan fiction. I never knew what it was until today. Numerous times, I'd heard of authors submitting fan fiction, but had I not picked up The Bad Seed, I'd have remained in the House of Ignorance. Right now, this novel is free on KindleUnlimited with regular price being $2.99. Not too shabby for the opportunity to slide into another world.

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The story is about The Champion of Light, but he may not be born yet! So until then, or we're led to believe, we learn what happens before the challenger of evil matures. That gives us Zachery Morley. He's headed towards the herb garden when he spies a stranger in a dark cloak doing something suspicious. As he tries to watch the figure proves to be a demon who delivers a cryptic message before dramatically vanishing. In its wake is a small sapling. From there, we follow Zachary and the adventure he'd always wished for but wished he'd never taken.

When I began reading this story, I was über impressed. The idea of the story was nice and I liked Zachery.
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**eBook was free, via Kindle Unlimited and Michael Lackey, for an honest review.… (plus d'informations)