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: Rainy days and Sundays
I woke up this morning to the sound of rain. It’s been a while. Living in town, it’s different. When we lived off the grid and out in the country, rain meant many good things. Water in
MICHAEL BUNKER: Right of Way
I used to think I’d die being raided by the government for wrongthink, or perhaps I’d be gored by a bull. Those ways of dying are not completely off the table, but now that we live in
MICHAEL BUNKER: Geographical Oddity
In the Bible, Jesus excoriates the scribes and Pharisees for compassing sea and land (that is, travelling far and wide) to make converts, while ignoring the hypocrisy and unbelief more local to them – the entrenched darkness
MICHAEL BUNKER: Day tripper
We’ve gotten into doing a day trip every Thursday. Tomorrow is Thursday and we haven’t yet decided where we might go. We haven’t even talked about it. My wife told me many years ago that she really
MICHAEL BUNKER: Time Passes
I’m in Lubbock with my wife for the weekend. We’re celebrating my parent’s 60th Wedding Anniversary! Can you imagine such a thing? I suppose some of you couples have eclipsed the 60-year mark, but nowadays 60 years
MICHAEL BUNKER: You can’t time travel with a dog
This is going to be controversial and will be the newest political hot-topic in Brownwood and the surrounding multi-county area. You can’t time travel with a dog. There, I said it. Just take my word for it.
MICHAEL BUNKER: Write it and They Will Come
Art is a better agent of revitalization than sports or liquor establishments and just about anything else. But the arts are one of the last things cities encourage, and usually, that encouragement is limited to the visual
MICHAEL BUNKER: Eyes Wide Open
The weather has been mixed but pleasant, with some glorious spring days, good rain, and the occasional chilly morning. The weeds are coming up through the cracks in the roads, sidewalks, and curbs, and as we walk,
MICHAEL BUNKER: AI Writing is Garbage Writing (This article is not written by a robot.)
The topic of this article is this: AI writing is garbage writing, but most of you will never notice. That’s the topic, but it’ll take a lot of work for me to get to it. 100% of