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: What People Want
Chickens and pigeons are both birds, but they’ve taken different routes to city living. It makes me laugh when we drive through town sometimes and a rooster struts across the road. “I wonder why he did that?”
MICHAEL BUNKER: What if I’m dumb?
Maybe you don’t ask yourself these questions. Maybe you do. This is more than merely a Dunning-Kruger article. If you already know what Dunning-Kruger is, you are way ahead of the game here. Irony is not just
MICHAEL BUNKER: Catching Water
After a week of pretty gray weather and a little good rain, some blue skies up there now, spotted with cotton candy clouds. We had a good downpour for several hours overnight, and the air feels clean
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Old Ice House
Just a few blocks from here, work continues on the new Brownwood Event Center which will include the Ice House event stage and pavilion. Perfect for outdoor concerts and other events. There used to be an Ice
MICHAEL BUNKER: A Mental Brushfire
Hey, it’s a beautiful day and it rained last night. This is the part of the column where I soothe you into thinking this is going to be a frivolous and easy-reading jaunt. A stroll through a
MICHAEL BUNKER: Someone Open a Window
If you ever drive around downtown… any downtown, if you’re paying attention, you’ll notice something interesting. Did you ever notice that in the old buildings, anything built from the late 1800s to the end of World War
MICHAEL BUNKER: A Writer’s Rant
It’s hard to be a writer when no one reads anymore. The term “buggy whip” industry was coined when automobiles became more and more affordable and popular. People without horses and buggies didn’t need buggy whips anymore.
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Halcyon Days
It was a beautiful downtown day, that temperature that is just perfect… not hot and not cool, and no need for a jacket. We walk, as the song goes, on the sunny side of the street. Need
MICHAEL BUNKER: A Fractal Dream
Sometimes I have a dream that plays like a movie, and sometimes I write it down or comment on it. A few times I’ve had dreams that I eventually wrote into whole books or stories. Anywho, I