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: Robot Pizza
You may know by now that Danielle and I take a daytrip every week. I talk about this a little here, and it is a big part of our lives at this point in our journey. We
MICHAEL BUNKER: Blue Sky Morning
*** I sat in front of the apartment and the sky was so blue after the recent rains cleared out, and in the sun it was warm so I shed my hoodie and my long overshirt and
MICHAEL BUNKER: Seasoning
The cold weather is blowing in and just a day ago it was 83°. Down in the corner of my laptop, an alert tells me there is a freeze warning, which shouldn’t be too much of a
MICHAEL BUNKER: Pigeons Don’t Care
*** I’m not sure if this one will go anywhere, but we’ll see. Does it need to? I don’t think so. Was sitting out this morning under the gray and lowering sky and it’s been raining on
MICHAEL BUNKER: Come and see
Last night was a fun one downtown. Some of the businesses on Baker Street got together and held an Oktoberfest, and those are always fun. I could hear the band setting up and tuning up while I
MICHAEL BUNKER: Hometown-less
I’ve never really had a hometown. It’s just the way things worked out for me. It’s not a complaint – it really had a lot to do with making me who I am – but being Hometown-less
MICHAEL BUNKER: October Wanderings
This morning was nice under overcast skies and there was a cool breeze, too, as I drank my coffee. Living downtown is an adventure, especially when you are a writer, and I’m always gathering intel for texture
MICHAEL BUNKER: Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
A little chill in the air this morning, and bright blue skies greeting the day. The news of the world is bad. There are wars and rumors of wars, dishonesty, political subterfuge. If I watch the news,
MICHAEL BUNKER: Your IQ is Shrinking, Too
I wrote recently about how attention spans are shrinking and that this result is an intentional plan designed to make of the mass man an unthinking, dot-pecking, robotic consensus cog – someone who is given his opinions