↓
 

Sortmind Blog – Michael D. Smith

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith
  • Home
  • Jack Commer Series – Reviews
    • Jack Commer Book Covers – Drafts and Final
    • The Original Crab Emperor Dream, March 6, 1986
  • Novel Trailers
  • Contact
  • About
    • Flashpoint’s Daughter – The Lists
      • Bone Titles
      • Daughter Titles
      • Duplicate Fiction Titles
  • Sortmind.com
  • Sortmind Press

Category Archives: Writing

Post navigation

<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 19 20 >>

Shackism v. Sortmind, Part One

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on November 23, 2019 by Michael D. SmithNovember 23, 2019

Shackism: In the moment, flexible, aware, expectant. Creative disorder. Making pottery in a little shack at the side of an empty desert highway. Hit or miss power. Sortmind: Deep intuition, synthesizing, order, explanations, philosophy, indexing. In harmonious contact with all … Continue reading →

Posted in Character Images, Excerpts, Novels, Sortmind, Writing | Leave a reply

Jump Grenade in Paperback

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on October 21, 2019 by Michael D. SmithOctober 21, 2019

Sixteen-year-old Billy Bolamme, Junior Dropout Basketball League star, joins shamanic forces with Guenevere “Uni” Ryder, fellow high school dropout, art gallery receptionist, and unwitting accomplice to thirty thousand murders. Berserk at missing his five hundredth point in a row, ridiculed … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Comedy, Jump Grenade, Novels, Publishing, Sortmind Press, Writing | Leave a reply

Jump Grenade – The Author Interview

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on October 10, 2019 by Michael D. SmithOctober 10, 2019

Q: So what’s this crap you’ve got now? Jump Grenade? And don’t give me any of those typical BS marketing blurbs. MDS: All right, guy, let’s get into it. Basically the novel is about psychopathy, how much fun it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Comedy, Character Images, Interviews, Jump Grenade, Literary, Novels, Publishing, Satire, Sortmind Press, Writing, Writing Process | Leave a reply

Jump Grenade is Published

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on October 3, 2019 by Michael D. SmithOctober 3, 2019

Billy Bolamme, psychopathic Junior Dropout Basketball League star, joins shamanic forces with Guenevere “Universe” Ryder, fellow high school dropout, art gallery receptionist, and unwitting accomplice to thirty thousand murders. Berserk at missing his five hundredth point in a row, Billy … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Comedy, Character Images, Jump Grenade, Novels, Satire, Sortmind Press, Writing | Leave a reply

Some Secondary Sortmind Characters

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on August 12, 2019 by Michael D. SmithAugust 12, 2019

Barbie Malroux, Canterra Art Institute cheerleader and architecture student Witness his miserable entanglement with that girl in math. He groaned to consider his downfall here. The girl was everything he always said he despised. First of all, her name was … Continue reading →

Posted in Character Images, Excerpts, Novels, Sortmind, Sortmind Press, Writing | Leave a reply

The Main Sortmind Characters

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on August 5, 2019 by Michael D. SmithAugust 5, 2019

Oliver Perrine, Canterra Art Institute student, painter Peter Trantor regarded the lanky youngster looming out of the dim elevator with Suzanne at his side. “Well! Oliver! Glad you could make it! I’m Peter Trantor. Welcome to the command seat of … Continue reading →

Posted in Character Images, Excerpts, Novels, Sortmind, Sortmind Press, Writing | Leave a reply

The Sortmind Chronology

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on August 2, 2019 by Michael D. SmithAugust 2, 2019

At the risk of polluting this blog with an imperfect and overly long document, I’m adding something that’s not meant to be read, but just perused in order to show the lengths an author has to go to nail down … Continue reading →

Posted in Character Images, Literary, Novels, Sortmind, Sortmind Press, Writing, Writing Process | Leave a reply

A New Portrait of Jonathan James Commer

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on July 21, 2019 by Michael D. SmithJuly 12, 2020

Jonathan James is Jack Commer’s insolent, troubled son, the author of the bestselling Alpha Centaurian novel, A Fragmented Encyclopedia of Recent Self. He was also briefly Emperor of the Alpha Centaurians, later leader of a rebellion against the SolGrid surveillance … Continue reading →

Posted in Balloon Ship Armageddon, Character Images, Collapse and Delusion, Drawing, Jack Commer, Novels, Painting, Science Fiction, The SolGrid Rebellion, Writing | Leave a reply

Urside Charmouth’s Dented Painting

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on July 11, 2019 by Michael D. SmithJuly 11, 2020

Feckless young Urside Charmouth, heedless experimenter with Heuristic Time Transition, is horrified by the revelations from the future, fearing that he’s ruined the cosmic timeline with his drug-like time travel romps.  He then wastes the universe’s final HTT revisiting his … Continue reading →

Posted in Character Images, Double Dragon Publishing, Excerpts, Jack Commer, Nonprofit Chronowar, Novels, Science Fiction, Writing | Leave a reply

Free Sortmind Press Titles in July Smashwords Sale

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on June 26, 2019 by Michael D. SmithJune 26, 2019

The 11th annual Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale runs July 1 through July 31.  The eBook versions of my literary novels Akard Drearstone, Sortmind, and The Soul Institute, as well as my science fiction novella The First Twenty Steps, can be obtained … Continue reading →

Posted in Akard Drearstone, Literary, Novels, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sortmind, Sortmind Press, The First Twenty Steps, The Soul Institute, Writing | Leave a reply

Post navigation

<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 19 20 >>

Subscribe via email

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Recent Posts

  • Presenting Balloon Ship Armageddon, or, Nine Astronauts Were Walking to a USSF Meeting, or, Jack Commer Shot his Spaceship Directly into the Sun
  • The SolGrid Rebellion, Endings, and Continuations
  • The Wounded Frontier, Including Stellar Trolls
  • Collapse and Delusion, The Seven of Cups, and Unexpected Redemption
  • Nonprofit Chronowar Redux
  • Jack Commer, Supreme Commander, with a Nod to the Crab Emperor
  • The Martian Marauders, Now Digitally Remastered for Your Enjoyment
  • The Jack Commer Resurrection
  • New CommWealth Paperbacks
  • I Threw Jump Grenade a Little Further

Blogroll

  • Beauty in Ruins
  • F. T. McKinstry
  • Linda Sprague's Astro Tips
  • Sabin Russell, Science Writer

Links

  • Akard Drearstone from Sortmind Press
  • Amazon author page
  • CommWealth from Sortmind Press
  • Goodreads author page
  • Jack Commer Series from Sortmind Press
  • Jump Grenade from Sortmind Press
  • Kara D. Wilson
  • LibraryThing author page
  • old.sortmind.com
  • Pinterest
  • Smashwords author page
  • Sortmind the novel from Sortmind Press
  • The First Twenty Steps from Sortmind Press
  • The Soul Institute from Sortmind Press
  • Trip to Mars, The Picture Book from Sortmind Press
  • Twitter
  • Where to find my novels

Archives

Categories

  • A Writing Biography (7)
  • Acrylic (12)
  • Akard Drearstone (26)
  • Art Process (20)
  • Astronomy (7)
  • Balloon Ship Armageddon (12)
  • Black Comedy (12)
  • Book Daily (3)
  • Character Images (78)
  • Collapse and Delusion (34)
  • Commer of the Rebellion (10)
  • CommWealth (19)
  • Double Dragon Publishing (58)
  • Drawing (34)
  • Dreams (9)
  • Dystopia (12)
  • Early Writing (27)
  • Editing (23)
  • Essays (6)
  • Excerpts (37)
  • Fairs and Festivals (5)
  • Fantasy (3)
  • Instructions (3)
  • Interviews (17)
  • Jack Commer (101)
  • Jump Grenade (7)
  • Literary (38)
  • Marketing (21)
  • Martian Marauders (54)
  • Nonprofit Chronowar (41)
  • Novels (182)
  • Painting (21)
  • Perpetual Starlit Night (3)
  • Plays (4)
  • Publishing (107)
  • Query Letters (12)
  • Reviews (21)
  • Satire (15)
  • Science Fiction (120)
  • Sculpture (3)
  • Self-Publishing (30)
  • Sortmind (24)
  • Sortmind Press (43)
  • Spaceships (8)
  • Stories (19)
  • Tarot Cards (5)
  • The First Twenty Steps (23)
  • The SolGrid Rebellion (31)
  • The Soul Institute (24)
  • The University of Mars (7)
  • The Wounded Frontier (28)
  • Trip to Mars (17)
  • Trust (6)
  • Twisted Tails (1)
  • Videos (3)
  • Wiess Cracks (3)
  • Writing (195)
  • Writing Process (109)
  • Zarreich (3)

Recent Comments

  • Presenting Balloon Ship Armageddon, or, Nine Astronauts Were Walking to a USSF Meeting, or, Jack Commer Shot his Spaceship Directly into the Sun – Sortmind Blog – Michael D. Smith on The First Childhood Appearance of Jack Commer, September 19, 1962
  • The SolGrid Rebellion, Endings, and Continuations – Sortmind Blog – Michael D. Smith on Jack Commer Book Seven Interviews, 10: Jackie Vespertine
  • The Jack Commer Resurrection – Sortmind Blog – Michael D. Smith on Ancient Predictions for Spring 2020
  • The Jack Commer Resurrection – Sortmind Blog – Michael D. Smith on The Irregular Origin of The Martian Marauders
  • A Writing Biography, Part II: The Blue Notebook – Sortmind Blog – Michael D. Smith on A Writing Biography, Part I: First Efforts in The Gore Book

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
March 2021
S M T W T F S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
« Dec    

Michael's books

Why Meditate: Working with Thoughts and Emotions
4 of 5 stars
Why Meditate: Working with Thoughts and Emotions
by Matthieu Ricard
WordPress Web Design for Dummies
4 of 5 stars
WordPress Web Design for Dummies
by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
5 of 5 stars
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
by Philip Plait
Using Joomla!
3 of 5 stars
Using Joomla!
by Ron Severdia
Serpent's Tooth
5 of 5 stars
Serpent's Tooth
by Toni V. Sweeney
On a cruise Melissa bonds with an older man, Travis, who turns out to be a famous celebrity in hiding from a once successful life. But by degrees we become aware that his enormous success came at the price of bonding with demonic forces...

goodreads.com
Tweets by @sortmind
©2021 - Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith - Weaver Xtreme Theme
↑