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: S.S. Died
I’m starting a trend here. I’ve written a couple of columns in the last month about people who died, and maybe nobody ever wrote anything about when S.S. died in October of 1935. I wrote my first
MICHAEL BUNKER: Freedom is not natural
Buckle up, buttercup. This is one of those that you should read because it’ll make you think, even if you don’t agree, and thinking is something with which you are likely out of practice. That’s not an
MICHAEL BUNKER: How to be Part of the Solution
This column is going to be a little bit different from my normal ones… more of a few updates and comments to address some things. The theme is – how to be a part of the solution.
MICHAEL BUNKER: Trenton Ray died
Trenton Ray, a Brownwood native and resident, died the other day. This isn’t an obituary, it’s a true story. And it’s a memorial. I didn’t know Trenton very well. I don’t even know if his family and
MICHAEL BUNKER: Shufflin’ Ray died
Shufflin’ Ray died a few months ago, October I think, and almost no one noticed. Maybe you saw Ray around downtown. You couldn’t miss him. He walked slowly, but in a herky-jerky fashion – each step about
MICHAEL BUNKER: You Keep Using That Word
You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means. “Democracy” is not some magic spell that keeps a prosperous ship floating. Democracy, when it is not restrained by ironclad
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Accidental Sci-Fi Writer
“I’m an accidental Amish Sci-Fi writer.” I said this during an NPR interview after my book Pennsylvania became the #1 selling Science Fiction book on all of Amazon. Things were kind of blowing up for me and
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Bad Samaritan (or something)
All we ever want is a little bit of peace. A place with friendly faces and maybe front porches. Now… think about what the opposite of that is. Anxiety, today, is that dread. World gone mad, and
MICHAEL BUNKER: The 20-Year-Nostalgia Glitch
Not long ago I read a post on social media from a guy who pointed out that for most of the mass entertainment age (basically the last 100 years), the nostalgia trigger point has been about 20