Michael, What’s Happening, Dude?

What does a writer do when he’s not thinking up kooky ways to end the lives of his characters?

Karaoke?

Karaoke is a hobby of mine. Around Mandurah, there are plenty of venues offering karaoke, and I still get out 2 – 3 times a week to belt out a tune or two.

That’s a younger me singing at Murphy’s Bar with a few of the locals.

I usually go for Meatloaf, Robbie Williams, Elton John or something from Billy Idol. They are in my range, and I enjoy singing this material. This is one of the many things I do between writing and waiting for the next round of edits for SEETHINGS.

Another project I’m working on is my home. I recently bought a beach house and am constantly renovating it.

Shortly after we moved in, I built Margo a potting shed from old glass doors we got at a demolition site. She set about filling it with gardening stuff, planting a vegetable garden near it, and now we’ve got herbs, vegetables and citrus on the grow. I then ripped out the original sliding door on the front of the home and the ceiling in two bedrooms. When it’s finished, we’ll have high ceilings and LED lights throughout the home.

Margo and I also like to fish and take walks along our beach. She collects shells while I check out the flotsam that’s washed up overnight. Ever since MH370 went down off our coastline, my eyes have been peeled for any suspicious airline debris. I found a lot of junk, but nothing from an aircraft.

I’ve got bits of plastic, wood, glass and… pills in a bottle. There are no markings on either. Google tells me that they might be muscle relaxants from a country that doesn’t use stamp ID’s on their drugs. Do you know what they are?

I also cycle, play tennis and play with our fine and handsome cat Levi. He travelled with us on the road when we crossed over from the east, and it was fun watching him get used to the car and camping.

Finally, I spend my writing time managing the SEETHINGS material through this site and networking strategy. This now consists of these primary areas: Photography. Celibacy. Sexless Marriages. Serial Killers. Dark Fiction.

The first three are self-explanatory, and I pretty much poke around, sharing anecdotes about my experiences in these areas with similarly minded people who can relate to the topics. The others are intended for lovers of fiction. They are tied together and, with a bit of erotica thrown into the mix, make up the core of the SEETHINGS trilogy..

On occasion, I talk about my personal life, as I’m doing in this post.

–Michael (Dark Fiction. Author of SEETHINGS (the first book), free for a limited time)