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: Total Éclair of the Heart
So, I just heard they got this total éclair going on, and it’s making people crazy. People gonna jam the roads and can’t find Airbnbs and whatnot. People coming from the Yankee places and Colorado and other
MICHAEL BUNKER: Chet’s Revenge and the Baby Wipe Story
Many years ago, long before I was writing for the paper here, I used to write a series of semi-comedic rants. For some of them, I created a guy named “Chet” who was usually the innocent guy
MICHAEL BUNKER: Be Prepared
This could turn out to be an interesting year, as most election years are. Regardless of your political leanings, there are a few facts we need to admit to: We have not had an un-challenged or universally
MICHAEL BUNKER: Ice Cream Truck Days
I remember the ice cream man would come by, bell ringing, and we’d come running out of our houses or the yards where we were playing, but first we’d run to our moms or our dads or
MICHAEL BUNKER: Trolley or Folly
I stepped out into the gorgeous downtown night and the temperature was just right. The streetlight over on the corner of Brown and Lee illuminated some people walking up Lee Street over to Center and they were
MICHAEL BUNKER: What was once here
“I’ve been alive forever, and I wrote the very first song,” is a lyric that Barry Manilow wrote, even though neither part of that verse is true. Barry Manilow is old, but he didn’t write the first
MICHAEL BUNKER: Twenty Years Ago
Time is weird. At the end of January, I wrote a column here titled “The 20-Year-Nostalgia Glitch.” If you haven’t read that one, you should. Anyway, in it I point out that up until the year 2000,
MICHAEL BUNKER: Pioneers and Prophets
We strolled down to the Pioneer Taphouse yesterday for an early meal before I had a poker game starting at 7 pm and Danielle was going to have to work overnight. The weather had turned cool for
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Envy Machine
This one will get around to the point eventually, but I hope you enjoy the getting’ there. The grass was always the greenest green back then, and the sky an impossible blue – “azure” they would say