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: On Writing, Part 1
First, I want to thank everyone for your great responses to my last column – the one about ‘Try this in a small town’ or something like that. My most common running joke when I meet some
MICHAEL BUNKER: Try this in a small town
Everyone will read this and exempt themselves. Justify. That’s the way selfish people are, even in small towns. But since some of it applies to over 95+% of you, maybe you should take these things under consideration.
MICHAEL BUNKER: Travel Timing
All I knew was that we weren’t getting on that bus. No security to speak of. No one checking ID or even asking names. I saw a man lounging near the baggage claim, an entrepreneur – an
MICHAEL BUNKER: Time is Kind of Crazy
One way to better understand time and history is to use comparisons within your own life, or between events that have happened during your lifetime, so that your mind can grasp how rapidly or slowly things actually
MICHAEL BUNKER: Downtown Sound
You hear the thump, thump, thump of the bass drum when you’re inside, and when you open the door the heat smashes in on you like an intruder, and the sound comes too with the heat because
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Framing Effect
Today’s Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson is a cognitive bias called the FRAMING EFFECT. The Framing Effect cognitive bias, often combined with others, is one of the primary ways that information is presented to you today. So, let’s get started!
MICHAEL BUNKER: Heat
The heat, though seasonal enough, has been a problem. For eighteen years when we lived completely off-grid here in Central Texas, the heat was personified or anthropomorphized as the enemy. A friend-enemy. Sent to make us miserable
MICHAEL BUNKER: Bunker History Moment
In 1938, a jazz duo (Slim and Slam) comprised of a pianist and a bass player, wrote a song entitled “Flat Foot Floogie.” Now, in 1938 my favorite music was popular. The big music makers and stars
MICHAEL BUNKER: Read this
It is interesting to note how, more than in any other endeavor, the writing market tracks with the degradation or renovation of the mind of the masses. That might be a lot to take in for an