Michael Logan

Novelist, Journalist and other things ending in -ist

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Who killed Jimi Hendrix?

September 18, 2017 by Michael Logan

Forty-seven years ago today, Jimi Hendrix died. If you want to find out who killed him, you can read the below sample chapter from my novel Wannabes, available for much cheapness at the Amazons.

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The 1960s

At Murmur’s leaving party, his drinking buddies from Souls Receiving filled him so full of harpy piss that when he teleported to an unoccupied toilet cubicle in New York’s Biltmore Hotel the next morning, his first act as a field agent was to vomit into the bowl. He stayed there for thirty minutes, groaning and listening to his acidic bile sizzle through the porcelain, before he managed to get his feet under him and stagger out into the lobby. He checked in under the name of Brad Pine—identity and reservations provided by the travel office—and flopped into bed to sleep it off.

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Filed Under: fiction Tagged With: jimi hendrix, wannabes

Altered Ego – another new short story

February 10, 2016 by Michael Logan

I wrote the short story linked to below specifically in response to a call by The Book Smugglers for superhero fiction. It made the longlist, but not the final cut. Now, I could shop it around, but I lack the patience. So I am posting it here.

Consider it a teaser for the upcoming paperback release of Wannabes, which deals with similar themes.

Enjoy, share, and encourage people to buy my books before I need to sell a child on the black market.

Altered Ego

Filed Under: fiction, writing Tagged With: superheroes

He Knows – a cheery Christmas flash

December 10, 2015 by Michael Logan

It’s December. The trees are up, your wallets are emptying and the turkeys are wondering why they’re getting so much food all of a sudden. Christmas is almost upon us. To get you in the mood, here is a festive flash. Merry Christmas to one and all!

He Knows

You have forgotten him.

You have extinguished your hearth and bricked up your chimney. Now your fragile bones cleave to the radiator for warmth as the freezing wind drives snow against the windowpanes.

You have neglected the ancient offerings, those your forebears furnished when his restless shadow flitted over their rooftops. Now these appeasements nestle in your own bloated stomach.

You have cast him aside in favour of the new Gods of commerce, who care naught for the health of your soul when your purse is fat. Now your gifts arrive cloaked in stiff cardboard, for good and bad alike.

Once, rosy-cheeked youth lay abed in anticipatory fever, straining to hear tinkling bells and clopping hooves. Once, their happiness unfurled into tendrils of energy that nourished him, their benefactor.  Now he is hungry. And if your children will not feed him with their love, their adulation, their joy, what will he eat?

He knows.

In the thick of night, he will slip under your door, as thin as a shadow thanks to your neglect. Beneath your tree—beneath every tree across the land—he will place an oaken box, lid held fast with mouldy twine. Something will stir inside, the scuttle of a creature that lives in the dark crevices where you dare not look.

In the morning, while you rub the milky film of sleep from your eyes, your firstborn will open the box. Then you will remember him. Then, at last, he will eat his fill.

 
 

Filed Under: fiction Tagged With: bad santa, christmas

Putting the cows out to pasture

November 20, 2015 by Michael Logan

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The cows are dead. Long live the cows!

I’ve noticed that quite a few people who read World War Moo are assuming there will be a third instalment. I guess that’s understandable, given that three is the thing (a trend also observable over the last few thousand years in certain big religions).

However, barring a drastic change of heart, there will not be a third cow novel. Yes, the ending of World War Moo is somewhat open, but that’s because I like open endings. I like to leave it up to the reader to figure out what comes next, to build new stories in their heads for the characters. Hell, if anybody wants to go off and write what happens next, feel free. I’d be interested to see where you think Geldof and chums end up, providing they avoid being fried to a crisp. I’d like to think they live happily ever after in a cave, growing their own herbal entertainment and foraging for mushrooms.

I have too many other stories in my head that need to come out. They will come, once they stop wrestling with each other for dominance, and once I find a way to silence the inner voice assuring me that my writing is shit and I may as well pack it in.

Anyway, even if I did want to write a third one, my publisher wouldn’t touch it given the pitiful sales of World War Moo. Readers of that novel are few, so, if you have taken the plunge, give yourself a pat on the back for becoming part of an elite clique.

So, there we are. Sorry if anybody feels let down, but the cows need to go out to pasture.

Filed Under: apocalypse cow, fiction Tagged With: apocalypse cow, world war moo, zombie cows

Thriller Spookfest Bargains

October 28, 2015 by Michael Logan

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Ready to get spooked? Perfect for the most bone-chilling time of the year: six thrillers from six bestselling authors, each with a paranormal or psychic twist. Best of all? They’re each just $0.99. Fill your e-reader for less than $6!

FAREWELL TO DREAMS (Fatal Insomnia Book 1) by CJ Lyons

CJ-Lyons---Farewell-to-Dreams-3D-200wIn the chaos of the ER, functioning without sleep is a prized skill. But even Dr. Angela Rossi will admit that five months is far too long. Then a dead nun speaks directly into Angela’s brain while Angela is holding the nun’s heart in her hand. “Find the girl,” the nun commands. “Save the girl.”

Aided by a police detective fallen from grace, Angela searches the midnight catacombs beneath the city, facing down a ruthless gang leader and stumbling onto a serial killer’s lair. As her symptoms escalate in bizarre and disturbing ways, Angie realizes exactly how serious her illness is.

She might be dying, but she’s finally choosing how to live…

Learn more and get FAREWELL TO DREAMS on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Kobo for only $0.99.

THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH (Joe Tesla Series, Book 3) by Rebecca Cantrell

Rebecca-Cantrell---THE-CHEMISTRY-OF-DEATHSticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me…or can they?

In the third thrilling installment of this award winning series from New York Times bestseller Rebecca Cantrell, tortured genius Joe Tesla is on the trail of a sadistic serial killer who charms his victims into the bowels of the Manhattan subway system–and who holds the keys to Joe’s crippling condition. Can Joe stop the murderous rampage of this silver-tongued killer, or will he become the next victim?

Learn more and get THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Kobo for only $0.99.

LINGER (A Linger Thriller, Volume 1) by Edward Fallon

Edward-Fallon---Linger-3D-200wVeteran major crimes detective Kate Messenger has a problem on her hands: a family, slaughtered in their own home, with not a single clue or a shred of DNA that points to the butcher who killed them.

Every crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA.

It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced. To be interpreted.

Only the man and boy know this. And now Kate will discover why.

Learn more and get LINGER exclusively on Amazon for only $0.99.

THE KEEP (The Adversary Cycle Book 1) by F. Paul Wilson

“Something is murdering my men.”

Thus reads the message received from a German commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. And when an elite Nazi SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the problem, the men find a something that’s both powerful and terrifying. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims. Panicked, the Nazis bring in a local expert on folklore–who just happens to be Jewish–to shed some light on the mysterious happenings. And unbeknownst to anyone, there is another visitor on his way–a man who awoke from a nightmare and immediately set out to meet his destiny.

The battle has begun: On one side, the ultimate evil created by man, and on the other… the unthinkable, unstoppable, unknowable terror that man has inevitably awakened.

Learn more and get THE KEEP exclusively on Amazon for only $0.99.

WANNABES by Michael Logan

Michael-Logan---Wannabes-3D-200wCelebrities are mobbing London’s laser clinics as a deranged wannabe bumps off A-listers, believing he can absorb their powers and become famous by taping their tattoos to his body.

Washed-up pop star Jackie Thunder isn’t joining the stampede. Jackie figures that if he can get on the killer’s hit list, without the inconvenience of actually being murdered, he’ll gain the publicity needed to reignite his career.

But there’s more at stake than Jackie can possibly imagine.

With humanity’s collective soul at stake, how far will Jackie go to reach the top?

Learn more and get WANNABES exclusively on Amazon (and Amazon UK) for only $0.99.

BONE DEEP by Debra Webb

Debra-Webb---Bone-Deep-3D-200wJill Ellington’s twin sister hasn’t spoken a word since she allegedly murdered her husband, and her three-year-old son is missing. No one in the small, idyllic town of Paradise saw or heard a single thing. Jill is going to need a miracle to uncover the truth.

Dr. Paul Phillips has a gift or a curse depending upon how sober he is when ask. He agrees to review Jill’s case to settle an old debt but five minutes in Paradise and he knows he has made a monumental mistake. Yet somehow Jill makes him yearn to be the miracle she desperately needs.

Together, they uncover bone deep secrets that will rock the town of Paradise—if they can survive long enough to tell.

Learn more and get BONE DEEP exclusively on Amazon for only $0.99.

Happy reading! Don’t forget to leave the lights on…just in case. 

Filed Under: fiction Tagged With: halloween, spookfest, thrillers

My top reads in 2015

September 25, 2015 by Michael Logan

It’s been a busy year—the arrival of another mini-me, work pressure, finishing another novel—so I haven’t read as much as I would have liked. However, amidst the 40 or so books I did manage, there were quite a few crackers. It’s probably a bit early, but the following three are my favourite books of 2015 (read this year, not necessarily published this year).

I’d highly recommend you get out there and read them—particularly the first two, which deserve a wider audience. [Read more…]

Filed Under: fiction, SciFi Tagged With: books, fictions, review, scifi

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