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The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot - A Series Overview
What’s it About? Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are a pair of hard-luck adventurers for hire with an unfortunate knack for landing jobs that pay too little and threaten their lives too much. Erika Racewind is a hardened elven warrior who doesn’t like people, except maybe when she’s killing them. Winifred Graceword is a kindhearted elven priestess skilled in the healing arts. David is a…
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Weekly Update - July 14, 2026
As you may or may not have heard, and I know I’ve written about it here before, there are a LOT of scams targeting authors right now, and I got one this week that felt particularly infuriating. Most of the scams are pathetically obvious, in that they reach out to the wrong author. There are a couple of other Michael Baileys out there in the writing world, including one accomplished horror…
Action Figures - A Series Overview
What’s it About? The series focuses on Carrie Hauser, a 15-year-old girl who one summer experiences two life-changing events: her parents announce they’re getting divorced, and she gains superhuman abilities after encountering a dying extraterrestrial after he falls to Earth. Her adventure begins after Carrie and her mother Christina move back to Christina’s childhood home town of Kingsport,…
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Weekly Update - July 7, 2026
One of the problems with getting diverted away from one WIP to a new project is getting back in the groove when I finally return to the previous project. The ninth Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot book has been sitting dormant for several months now due to other one-off ideas taking over my brain, so getting back on track last week has been a challenge. I’d largely forgotten everything I’d…
Station Identification Time
Who Am I? I’m a writer originally from Falmouth, MA who now lives in Oxford, MA with my awesome wife Veronica, and our two dogs and three cats who don’t like to let us sleep in. After 15 years with the Falmouth Enterprise, where I worked as a general and political reporter, blogger, and editor, I left the news industry to focus on my creative writing. In addition to my novels (more on that in…
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Weekly Update - June 30, 2026
The worst thing about vacation is that they end. My wife and I were off all last week, and for the most part, all we did was hang out at home making art, which is how we’d love to spend the rest of our lives, but, you know. Capitalism. The upcoming July 4 holiday means it’s a short week back at the day jobs, and I plan to spend a chunk of the long weekend trying to get back into the groove on…
The Best of the Rest
If you enjoy Michael’s two series, Action Figures and The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot, check out these anthologies, collections, and side-projects featuring his work. Available on Amazon, and signed print editions may be purchased directly from the author. Beneath the Mask – A Superhero Romance Anthology features ten tantalizing tales of masked heroes saving the day and falling in…
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Weekly Update - June 23, 2026
Let’s look ahead to the future of Innsmouth Look Publishing. This is NOT a bad post, I promise. I’ve simply been giving thought to where I want to go as a writer, that introspection prompted by my wrap-up of draft two of The Ashcroft High Monster Hunters Club. It was fun writing a standalone novel with no plans to write a sequel, or multiple sequels — no plans, and no pressure, which is…
The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot - A Series Overview
What’s it About? Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are a pair of hard-luck adventurers for hire with an unfortunate knack for landing jobs that pay too little and threaten their lives too much. Erika Racewind is a hardened elven warrior who doesn’t like people, except maybe when she’s killing them. Winifred Graceword is a kindhearted elven priestess skilled in the healing arts. David is a…
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Anatomy Of A Draft
Some time back, I posted the first chapter of The Ashcroft High Monsters Hunters Club, my YA horror project, to show folks what was going on in my head with some of my choices. Today, I’m following it up with a side-by-side comparison of what I wrote back in the first draft and how that chapter changed with the current draft so folks can see how much (or how little) a manuscript can evolve…
Weekly Update - June 16, 2026
Draft two of The Ashcroft High Monster Hunters Club is THIS CLOSE to being finished, but I’m not here to talk about that this week. Instead, I’m going to remind folks that outside of writing, I’m involved in local theater as a stage combat instructor and director, and this weekend the latest show I’ve been working on with Studio Theatre Worcester, Superhero – A Musical, goes up this weekend. If…
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Action Figures - A Series Overview
What’s it About? The series focuses on Carrie Hauser, a 15-year-old girl who one summer experiences two life-changing events: her parents announce they’re getting divorced, and she gains superhuman abilities after encountering a dying extraterrestrial after he falls to Earth. Her adventure begins after Carrie and her mother Christina move back to Christina’s childhood home town of Kingsport,…
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Weekly Update - June 9, 2026
Work continues on draft two of The Ashcroft High Monster Hunters Club, and as you might recall from last week, I mentioned I was contemplating whether to self-publish the book, my normal approach, or see if I could get an agent or publisher interested in it. Well, I’ve decided to go my usual route and self-publish, which is probably how it was going to go anyway, but several authors I follow on…
The Problem With Publishing
As followers of this blog might well know, I’m working on a new book, a YA horror novel tentatively (but at this point almost certainly) titled The Ashcroft High Monster Hunters Club. It’s in the second draft as I write this, and I’ve been debating trying to query the finished novel to agents and publishers instead of going the independent author route, which is how I’ve been releasing books…
Station Identification Time
Who Am I? I’m a writer originally from Falmouth, MA who now lives in Oxford, MA with my awesome wife Veronica, and our two dogs and three cats who don’t like to let us sleep in. After 15 years with the Falmouth Enterprise, where I worked as a general and political reporter, blogger, and editor, I left the news industry to focus on my creative writing. In addition to my novels (more on that in…
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Weekly Update - June 2, 2026
Draft one of The Ashcroft High Monster Hunters Club is finished! I spent an extra-long day Sunday working on it, and now I’m moving on to draft two, which I’m hoping to finish well before the end of June so I can get it out to beta readers. I’m toying with the idea of pitching it to agents and publishers rather than go my usual independent route, but that’s not even close to a firm…
The Best of the Rest
If you enjoy Michael’s two series, Action Figures and The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot, check out these anthologies, collections, and side-projects featuring his work. Available on Amazon, and signed print editions may be purchased directly from the author. Beneath the Mask – A Superhero Romance Anthology features ten tantalizing tales of masked heroes saving the day and falling in…
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