Hello and thanks for visiting. I’m Mike, a speculative fiction author, and a nutritionist. I’ve set up this site as a hub for my creative writing. Ever since Mr. Zerbies’ 4th grade English class, one of my life-long dreams was to write a story and get published. Now after years of waking up daily at 4 a.m. to work on my craft, I’m very proud to say one of my short stories, Parquet to the Past, has been published. You can find it in Outcasts: An Anthology—a collection of short stories from Ohio authors that explores human connections and what happens when we lose those connections. Parquet to the Past shows how memories can slow the passing of time, but if you don’t live in the present, time will surprisingly catch up with you.
Outcasts: An Anthology is available in print and digital formats at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Pick up a copy and check it out! The foreword is written by actor, director, and writer Dan Fogler of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and The Walking Dead.
I’ve also been working on my debut novel, Paralith, a young adult fantasy about a seventeen-year-old boy named Iyo. He lives a friendless, uneventful life in the town of Pine Knolls, but everything changes when his older brother, Ves, returns home after missing for ten years and reveals the reason why their father had abandoned the family.
Ves takes Iyo through the woods to a large boulder discovered by their family generations ago—and the very thing that had driven their father away. When Iyo touches it, everything becomes black, suffocating, until he suddenly finds himself vomiting in a field near a similar boulder halfway around their planet, Traum.
Ves then reveals there are more of these paraliths—eight of them to be exact—and he now has their father’s map showing the location of the third one, something he’s been searching for since he ran away from home ten years ago.
Disoriented, scared, and still wearing pajamas, Iyo knows nothing of where he is or what he’s doing. But he can’t go back home—the paraliths only travel one-way—so he has no choice but to help his brother in his quest. From the angry dwarves in the Drackett Lands to the hypnotic Higgenhubbles of Arter Woods, Iyo quickly learns the world is much more dangerous than his boring hometown of Pine Knolls. But with every challenge he faces, he sheds off his cocoon and grows into a strong young man committed to finding all eight paraliths and getting back home (hopefully).
Click here to read more about Paralith and other projects I’m working on.
Thank you for visiting!
Mike Sieminski 