CAPES OF YORE

If you're going to fight crime wearing PAISLEY, 
you need conviction.

(I had it.)

TRUTH IN LITERATURE

How historical is the fiction 
behind Mark Banana? 
 

Let's just say 
that only the most 
AWESOME
parts of the stories 
are true...

Coming Soon: BEEFIER WEBSITE!

So, in addition to working on Book #3 - Mark Banana Makes a Movie! - I’ve been developing an expanded, funner version of markbanana.com. Look for printable FUN SHEETS for the kids! Coloring, mazes, crossword puzzles, word searches... GOOD SHTUFF!

The Little Boy with the EPIC IMAGINATION is BACK!

Whether Mark is pretending to be a cowboy or an adventurer, one accessory is essential: a BULLWHIP!

When his mother makes him a whip out of some old, rawhide shoelaces, Mark couldn't be happier. That is, until the day he spies a REAL bullwhip at the mall. With his birthday money he buys it, little suspecting that heartbreak is soon to follow...!

Thanks for visiting my blog, and I hope you'll agree that Mark Banana and the Broken Bullwhip is just as hilarious, charming, and tender as its predecessor!

WHAT PRICE ROLE MODELS?

If pop culture actually produced a decent role model for your teenage son, would it be worth $2.99? You want THIS.

CLEAN INDIE READS INTERVIEW

Many thanks to Lia London at Cleanindiereads.com for this nice interview! You can find it in its original form HERE.

CIR: What inspired you to write Wade Boss: Hybrid Hunter?
MM: When I taught middle and high school English, parents would express to me how difficult it was to find decent new material for their teenagers to read. And by “decent” they didn’t just mean well-written, they meant optimistic, uplifting, wholesome – not obsessed with darkness. Wade Boss: Hybrid Hunter is my answer to that lament. It’s principally an action-adventure story, but with a lot of humor layered in – and even a dash of CLEAN romance!

CIR: So, is this geared for your former students?

FAITH AND REASON

Faith and Reason are like the twin blades of a pair of scissors: always complementary, never at odds — except in the befuddled mind of postmodern Man. Their edges intersect elegantly and precisely from one end to the other, such that they always kiss but never clash. Only working in concert can they decapitate the two-headed dragon of Doubt and Superstition.

YES.

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov