1 October Newsletter

September was a great month.  Our youngest daughter Rosemary was married to Tanner Hansen at the beginning of the month.  We celebrated in Fresno California and Nampa Idaho.  This is the happy couple.  I am an adjunct professor (on-line) for BYU-Idaho and since we were only a few hours away in Nampa, we drove over to the inauguration of the new university president.   On the way home, we ate at a restaurant in Winnemucca Nevada that I need to work into a future novel. It is good to be home and as an unsettled empty nester it is cathartic to get back to writing.  Happy reading!  More about me at Mike-Mitchell.com

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A quick look at the Past, Present, and what's Coming Soon  

Conversations Among Butterflies is now published as an ebook for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Smashwords, and in hard copy.  

At one point during the month the book was in the top 2,500 in three categories on Amazon--out of the millions of books on sale.  I should have taken a screenshot. If you've read it, please post a review on Amazon here.  I spoke at a book club that just read Conversations and even got to read a few passages.  It was a lot of fun and I answered some great questions.  I also participated in a local authors' faire at our community library.  It's been an exciting month. Purchase.

To be published this month:  Kitab Kabbani  

   The Middle East is spinning out of control, but what does that mean to a simple fast-order cook in Central California?  Everything—his family, his love life, his future, his purpose.  And it may be that he means a great deal to the Middle East.  Some want to kill him and others are willing to risk their lives to protect him. 
   This adventure takes the reader to Turkey, Iran, and Arabia.  Themes of historical religions of the Middle East, modern interpretations, truth, understanding, and what the future holds for this volatile region are interwoven throughout the book.  Romance and its seeming impossibility provide a metaphor for all that is wonderful about this region, and all that may be suffocating hope.  The unspoken question through most of the book asks is something more happening as this adventure unfolds?
 More info. 
  

To be published before the end of the year: Chinese Circus.

This is the working title of a spinning sextet of speculative fiction.  As bricoleur, I construct a polyphonic novel through six novellas of alternative history, fantasy, science fiction, and perhaps a few actual facts.  These stories initially appear on stage as solitary spinning plates, but join together to celebrate life in our mobile, flat, and ever accelerating society, where the battle of dependence, independence, and interdependence rages.  I hope to have this book available for pre-order by late November for an early December release.  More information soon on my website mike-mitchell.com and through my Facebook page. 
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