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: Brownwood vs. Deadwood
Brownwood, Texas has more Old West shoot-em-up classic Western history than Deadwood, South Dakota. Deadwood just got more press because it had the word “dead” in the name, and because Wild Bill Hickock had the marketing forethought
MICHAEL BUNKER: A Hundred Years from Today
The moon is shining and that’s a good sign Cling to me closer say you’ll be mine Remember, baby, we won’t see it shine A hundred years from today One hundred years from today To say the
MICHAEL BUNKER: Stacking stones
I’ve written a lot about place and how the idea of place impacts art and culture and how that impact has a tendency to affect our lives. In my last column, I wrote about how every “place”
MICHAEL BUNKER: I’ll take it here
I stepped outside in the downtown hotbox to walk the trash to the dumpster. Heat radiated from the street and from the brick and pounded me in the face. Hard to believe we lived out in this
MICHAEL BUNKER: On Writing, Part 2
I was writing my first novel when I met my wife 33 years ago. It was an exercise and a test of whether I could do it. An examination of my own determination. I had no intention
MICHAEL BUNKER: On Writing, Part 1
First, I want to thank everyone for your great responses to my last column – the one about ‘Try this in a small town’ or something like that. My most common running joke when I meet some
MICHAEL BUNKER: Try this in a small town
Everyone will read this and exempt themselves. Justify. That’s the way selfish people are, even in small towns. But since some of it applies to over 95+% of you, maybe you should take these things under consideration.
MICHAEL BUNKER: Travel Timing
All I knew was that we weren’t getting on that bus. No security to speak of. No one checking ID or even asking names. I saw a man lounging near the baggage claim, an entrepreneur – an
MICHAEL BUNKER: Time is Kind of Crazy
One way to better understand time and history is to use comparisons within your own life, or between events that have happened during your lifetime, so that your mind can grasp how rapidly or slowly things actually