30 January 2014
I laughed to myself as I sat on my 2.5″ hard foam mattress pad I call a bed and packed up three cent bracelets by the dozen for some Buddhist stranger living in Brazil. Here I am, forty-seven years old. Ex-American. Living in Thailand for the past decade. I spend a couple hours each week […]
13 October 2013
Before I finally broke down and bought a Macbook Air computer, I laughed at them for years. I had a MAC 17 inch G4 Powerbook back in 2001 I think it was. It was junk. I couldn’t even get the cursor to move fast enough using the trackpad, I’d have had to use a mouse. […]
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09 July 2013
Here are the some of the best articles I’ve written here. Some are personal favorites, and others are more popular with readers. 50 Reasons Ebooks Are Better It Is Damn Near Impossible to Motivate You to Write an Ebook A Boy of 7… Saddest Story I Ever Heard Carl East – Ultra Short Story Author at Amazon Kindle – […]
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18 August 2012
One thing none of us can bear the thought of is losing one of our children to a serial killer, or other degenerate. I read recently serial killer Ian Brady told the mother of one of his victims where he buried the child over forty years ago. This was a dramatic case from Great Britain […]
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25 July 2011
I did some figuring yesterday. If I sat down and banged out 40 short sex stories, it would come back to us in the form of another $500 per month. That’s pretty damn substantial – isn’t it? $500 per month is like a Lexus payment. Here in Thailand it’s a very decent house payment or […]
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07 February 2011
I just started my next book. This one will sell well, I know already. How I know that will come out in the process here. This is how I go about creating a good new non-fiction book that will sell 50-100 copies per month at $2.99, leaving me $80-160 per month until Amazon goes under […]
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02 November 2010
I need to be the guy doing the executions for certain crimes because I just rage inside over these things. Some people wonder, “Could I pull the trigger?” – I’ve never wondered. I can pull it and pull it and pull the fucking trigger off the gun I’d pull it so much. This dumbass with […]
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29 October 2010
I wrote a short story about this at this page: Alex The page is password protected and is for members only. If you want to join the site (free) – click below: Join Fook
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25 December 2008
I’ve not hit anyone with a stick before in my life. I am trained to seriously hurt someone with a stick – but, who would have thought a simple run up a hill would turn into one of the top 5 annoying situations in my entire life and that I’d hit someone in the kidney […]
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10 December 2008
I was looking through some photos at a weird photo site, you know the ones that have hundreds of odd photos, most of which give you a mild jolt of humor, shock, or disgust. Very few photos really have the power to bore through the layers of bulletproof foam covering our brain – preventing reaction. […]
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19 November 2008
Physically and mentally disabled children as a result of the Chernobyl accident in Russia so many years back. Make yourself look at each photo. Can you imagine what hell these children are living every day of their lives. I can’t. I know I don’t have any conception of what even 10 minutes must be like […]
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22 March 2008
Probably you feel something as you look at this photo… What do you feel? Me? I feel disgust… outrage… hate… a real hate I guess… an overwhelming, “what the Fook kind of world is this?” kind of hate. But hate who? Who did this? Is the baby responsible? The baby’s parents? Maybe the vulture for […]
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08 March 2014
Most of you reading this will fall into the category of The 1%. You are in the 1% in so many areas, that you don’t understand the rest of the world. Probably you’ve seen little of the rest of the world. I’ve just begun exploring, and I find myself humbled by what people live with […]
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01 March 2014
Amazon just lowered the royalties for producers of digital audio ebooks sold on Amazon.com. Audio book authors at Amazon are running around like chicken with their heads cut off at the latest shenanigans at the multibillion dollar company. Is the slashing of audio book authors’ royalties a sign to ebook authors that our heads are […]
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28 February 2014
Amazon is turning the screws under my fingernails. They want me to be better than I am. There is a lot at risk. If I don’t get better, more well-known, my ass is relegated to the bottom of the pile. It’s worse than any slush pile at the publishing house, which might be hundreds of […]
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07 February 2014
I just posted a new short story, “The First Time” for members of MikeFook.com. If you’re not a member, join over there on the top right column. You just add your email address, it’s free. You’ll receive a password in the mail to view the protected pages of this site. Cheers!
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03 February 2014
My mother used to buy things when she was upset. Refrigerators, couches, cars. She’d buy something big. It satisfied her in the short-term and wasn’t tragic in the long-term, so she continued doing it on through to now. She’s seventy-one. I’ve done well in Thailand not buying tech items like the madman I was back […]
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02 February 2014
I have this friend. His life story is so motivational it makes me want to run down the street screaming shit. I mean, you couldn’t even fathom the life this guy had, and what he has become in spite of it. I can’t possibly grasp the magnitude of it myself. He wrote me email the […]
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28 January 2014
Becoming a successful author of fiction ebooks in 2014 does not have much to do with anything extra you do besides publishing your schlock and waiting for the money to roll in. If you can write well, and a large group of people agree with you, and can find you, you’ll do well enough as […]
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27 January 2014
I just finished making the changes to my sister’s final edit and a last reading of my latest thirty-five page short story, Going Down. No, the story isn’t literotica. This is set in Western Pennsylvania where I grew up. It’s about drinking in a bar from age fourteen with a bunch of my friends. If […]
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21 January 2014
Just finished up my “Bumpy” short story. First draft is thirty-two pages. I thought it would be about ten, but as it turns out, the story took a little twist and people died. That’s the way it usually seems to go with my short stories, if you’ve read any of them, you get the idea. […]
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20 January 2014
I’ve lived an eventful life, through little of my own doing. I just seemed to have had some of the coolest and strangest experiences over my 47 years. The first book I ever wrote was a 160,000+ word autobiography. I never published it. I never got motivated enough to edit it down to a manageable […]
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18 January 2014
I’m hoping 2014 is my best year ever with ebooks. Why? I don’t have enough eggs in the other baskets. This year I’ll be focusing mainly on writing short stories. Shorts are good for me at the moment because I’ve sort of exhausted the subjects I was passionate about writing two or three-hundred page books […]
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21 December 2013
As 2013 winds down I’m taking a fresh look at things. EBook sales have slowed considerably, to the tune of a few hundred dollars less per month than they were last year and the year before that. This was expected. I’ve not cranked out many new books like I thought I might. I’m just not […]
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31 October 2013
I do this sometimes, call on the dead for help with what I should be doing. I’ve long since given up on God or anything related to it, but I still think there must be something out there – someone – that knows what I should be focusing on better than I do. My cousin […]
28 October 2013
Holding a Naja kaouthia, a monocled cobra, with barbecue tongs. This is one of 50+ found at a friend’s house. Video link at http://www.youtube.com/user/thaipulsedotcom/. Or, click this image above to see Mike Fook’s New YT channel. Looking back on the previous month, I realized we made a truckload of money from Youtube videos. That was […]
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10 October 2013
I had the misfortune of reading my “Kicking Life’s As*” book again, and I decided it wasn’t the right voice. Over the past few days I’ve changed the voice, the cover, the name, and quite a bit of the text. It is now a much better book, and one I’m even proud to put my […]
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25 September 2013
Wow. I was just finding the link to my two fiction books set in Thailand – Thailand’s Sickest series and I saw another review had been posted. I usually ignore reviews because I have had some really bad ones five years ago when I first started publishing my fiction. However, I took a peak. I’ll […]
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22 September 2013
I finished a couple short stories recently, inspired by my brilliant sister’s shorts at TalesTellersWorlds.com. If you haven’t seen her “Onya” story, I highly recommend it. Mine are not as good as hers, but they’re mine and I gave them a good effort. I’ve never written short stories, and I’m not sure if I have […]
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28 August 2013
You know how you have one of those days that changes your life – for the worst? Today was one of those days for me. I had a great morning. I topped it off with a run up the mountain. I was ready to hop in the shower and turned on the computer to read […]
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