Michael J. Martineck has written for DC Comics, The Truth About Cars, short stories, and long stories. Michael’s novel—The Milkman (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy), a murder mystery set in a world with no governments—won a gold medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer awards. His previous novel, Cinco de Mayo, was a finalist for an Alberta Reader’s Choice Award. He has also written two urban fantasy novels for young readers. Michael has a master’s degree in English, an undergraduate degree in Economics, but worked in advertising for years and years until he decided to teach, or try to teach is more like it. It's tough competing with screens, friends, enemies and the creeping nocturnality of college students. He lives on Grand Island, NY.
Michael J. Martineck has written for DC Comics, The Truth About Cars, short stories, and long stories. Michael’s novel—The Milkman (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy), a murder mystery set in a world with no governments—won a gold medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer awards. His previous novel, Cinco de Mayo, was a finalist for an Alberta Reader’s Choice Award. He has also written two urban...
In a world where words are the ultimate currency, silence can be lethal.
In the not-too-distant future, humanity’s ability to communicate has fractured, creating a labyrinth of professional jargons so dense that only specialists like William Kirst, Private Interpreter, can unravel them.
Kirst is a linchpin in a society where understanding is a...
FBI Special Agent Leah Capello knew the art world had a dark side, but kidnapping is a whole new hue. To save a young child she accepts the help of Joshua Fawls, who claims to be an art expert, seems a little psychic and is probably, more than likely, a delightfully skilled conman. Together they bend conventions, break rules, and learn that the...
An assassin, a priest and a schoolteacher walk into a secret nuclear power plant – to Edwin McCallum, detective by trade and artist by desire – there’s something wrong with this picture. He’s going to figure out what it is if it kills him. The Link Boy is the second novel set in the Free World, a post-government future, where there are no laws....