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: Poker at the End of the World
What in the world could this be about? Hold on and buckle up, this could be a bumpy ride. Huey Lewis used to sing “I Want a New Drug” and in the song he described the perfect
MICHAEL BUNKER: I Write The… Memories
You know I’m fascinated with memory and how the mind works. I wrote a column here not long ago about how all memories are false. You should go check it out. Still, memory exists for a reason
MICHAEL BUNKER: Which Way to Here?
This is the part where I tell you what was going on when I thought about what I was going to write – where I was, or what I was doing. I talk about the tiny green
MICHAEL BUNKER: Blue Skies and Desert Clams, A Ramble
I was reading a book the other day (I know that sounds crazy and antiquated, but it’s something I do) and the author was describing walking in a mountainous forest through a valley and then looking down
MICHAEL BUNKER: How to fix it
So many people work hard and then give all of their money to people who hate them and hate what they believe – people who actually then give the money to work against the interests and beliefs
MICHAEL BUNKER: All memories are false
There is a sentence I have written several times here in different columns, and several people have written to me to tell me that it intrigues them. All memories are false. Are you certain? As certain as
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