LOST MAN’S LANE Audiobook Excerpt

I’m an audiobook lover, and Corey Brill, actor in THE WALKING DEAD among others, did a beautiful job with LOST MAN’S LANE. I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun writing a scene than I did with a moment in this book where Marshall Miller sets out to impress his...

LOST MAN’S LANE Excerpt

A conversation about earthquakes made me decide it is time I tell the truth. Let me explain the lying first. That started in 1999, when I was six- teen years old, and became the coconspirator of a murdered man. I turned forty last summer, staring down the barrel at...

First Chapter Fun

Michael was honored to have AN HONEST MAN featured on First Chapter Fun, and Hank Phillippi Ryan did an incredible job of reading the first chapter! You can watch and listen to the episode below and on Facebook. There were also a bunch of fantastic questions from...
Bookstore News

Bookstore News

It’s always nice to have good bookstore news, and this month I’ve got two pleasant developments. In Maine, Sherman’s Booksellers has reopened in Rockland. The Camden store was an early covid casualty, one that was a real blow to me and I’m sure to many in the...

Wonderful Cynicism: PW Talks with Michael Koryta

In If She Wakes (Little, Brown, May), Koryta looks inside the mind of a victim of locked-in syndrome who is a crucial witness to a murder. Click here to read the interview  

A Generous Surprise

What a great way to start the month—with an endorsement from Stephen King on HOW IT HAPPENED!