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: The Granfalloon Technique
We finally got a few days off to run up to Arkansas and visit the family. Three of my four children and all of my grandchildren live in Arkansas and since we had yet to see a
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Mass Man and the News
The rains have come again and at 2:30 in the morning when I sit to write this, I can hear the dull roar of waters on the roof of the apartment. I went to let our dog
MICHAEL BUNKER: Downtown Abby
It was a warm night. The rain had finally come a day or two before but now it was humid and still warm as I left the restaurant and the heavy air pushed down on me and
MICHAEL BUNKER: Why you won’t like and share this column
People say to me… Michael, when are you going to go on one of your patented rants? (Smile… here we go.) Some of you who just started liking me will probably stop after this one. Almost all
MICHAEL BUNKER: It’s Time
It’s 2:17 a.m. in Central Texas. But is it? The first thing we do in my columns is we flip all of the puzzle pieces right-side up. The pieces may seem to be scattered all over the
MICHAEL BUNKER: A Cup of Freedom
We locked the apartment and skirted the Tres Leches building and strolled up Brown and then past the gym and up the narrow street toward the courthouse. While some of the businesses are being fixed up and
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Myth and The City
The Virginia Creeper vines in the alley on the building behind us have mostly died off by now. It wasn’t a lack of ambition that did them in, it was the supply chain. Living in the city
MICHAEL BUNKER: Feels Like Home
The heat still sits on us here downtown, at least (they say) through the rest of the week. Cooler temps coming this weekend. Yesterday Danielle and I walked down to check the chickens and collect eggs at
MICHAEL BUNKER: Nostalgia
It was Sunday and we drove to Early on that beautiful Central Texas day. It was clear with blue skies and some light puffy clouds, and the day was pleasant to look at so long as you