Michael Bunker
Michael Bunker is a USA Today Bestselling author, renaissance man, off-grid expert, husband, and father of four children. He’s the mixologist at Lucille + Mabel restaurant, rolls cigars, makes bourbon, writes books…and occasionally tilts at windmills. In November of 2015, Variety Magazine announced that Michael had sold a film/tv option for his bestselling novel Pennsylvania to Jorgensen Pictures. JP is currently developing Pennsylvania for production into a feature film. Hollywood heavyweight and Production Design superstar Patrick Tatopoulos (Independence Day, Maleficent 2, the 300, iRobot) is slated to direct the Pennsylvania feature film. Michael currently has two film options working in Hollywood.
Michael has been called the “father” of the Amish/Scifi genre but that isn’t all that he writes. He is the author of several popular and acclaimed works of dystopian sci-fi, including the Amazon top 20 overall bestselling Amish Sci-fi thriller Pennsylvania, the groundbreaking dystopian vision Hugh Howey called “a brilliant tale of extra-planetary colonization.” He also has written the epic post-apocalyptic novel WICK, the Amish/Robot thriller Brother, Frank, as well as many nonfiction works including the non-fiction Amazon overall top 30 national bestseller Surviving Off Off-Grid. Michael was hired by Amazon.com through their Kindle Worlds and Kindle Serials programs to write the first ever commissioned novel set in the World of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
Michael has been featured on NPR, HuffPost Live, Molly Green, and Ozy.com, along with hundreds of print, radio, and podcast interviews. He’s very pleased to be offering regular columns to BrownwoodNews.com.
MICHAEL BUNKER: A cigar is like a story
The title of this was the first line of a short story I wrote for a class in college. Two things I didn’t know much about back then: Cigars and Stories. I started smoking cigars a year
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Harrison House and what it Means
“A generation which ignores history, has no past – and no future.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein In the Russian short story Matryona’s House, written by Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn and published in 1959, an old peasant woman, not yet
MICHAEL BUNKER: Rain and Drought and Paradise
The storm was thick, the clouds lowered, and the sky darkened to the point that the headlights were doing little good even at 2 pm. The rain was so heavy that we could only see a car
MICHAEL BUNKER: Time passages
I had a thought that maybe to time travel was a curse – to walk to and fro on the earth only through time – like Lucifer was cast down and cursed to walk to and fro,
MICHAEL BUNKER: Brownwood’s ghostly watcher
On a Saturday blue-sky morning the little lake in our alley still has water from the recent rains and there is some mud too where the gravel is gone. A male grackle chatters loudly then swoops down
MICHAEL BUNKER: Immortality
It is precisely because we are dying that our world moves so fast. And the faster we are able to move, and the farther we can travel, the more evidence there is that it is because we
MICHAEL BUNKER: Another Thursday day trip
We’ve taken to using our Thursdays for a day trip somewhere. There is so much of Texas we’ve never seen or experienced, so we decided a few months ago to start seeing our own area. We still
MICHAEL BUNKER: A telling story
Time travel is interesting, no matter how you do it, because it is the best way to compare things side-by-side. A quote often attributed to Mark Twain (though we don’t know if he ever said it) is:
MICHAEL BUNKER: One Thing Missing
We’ve been living downtown for over a year. We’re loving this experiment, watching the scene develop. Like alien observers in a real-time urban study. But there’s still something missing downtown. ONE BIG THING. I’ve talked about it