Mike Fook Books – Ebooks | Fiction Thrillers | WTF

I did about 29 things today, and yet the only two questions that really matter are: How much did I write today? How well did I write today?   How much? About average, which is maybe 4,000 words. If I write 4,000 words  I give myself an “A”. It matters not whether what I wrote [...]

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I could have said, “Write Your Fingers Numb”, “Write Your Butt Numb”, or something else less forceful, right? Would you be surprised to find out forceful works well most times? Write what you know. Write how you know. Know what you know. Write like you know. And, like what you write. If you are just [...]

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Here are some problems with selling your digital ebooks on Amazon (dtp.amazon.com): 1. You don’t know who bought your book. You won’t have the slightest idea, they don’t pass that information on to you. 2. You don’t know who sold your books. Amazon works with some partners that, when they sell a book – take [...]

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Like the newspaper industry, the book publishing industry is being turned sideways and twisted like a corkscrew – sucked into the whirly vortex of the digital publishing black hole. Book publishers, agents, grammar rules, and books as we know them are going the way of newspapers which are going the way of magazines… all of [...]

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Sing sing a new song dried, paper mache flesh tenting brittle bones reveals such wrong Julia’s state we thought worse staring hollowly lost in amber walls while they died of thirst What purgatorial states suffer these stringy dolls? We’ve no clue nor time buying necessities at mega-malls Sing sing a new song away from cozy [...]

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Chew on that question for a bit and let me present my case for Thailand being the best place in the world to write for a living. I hadn’t thought much about it, though it’s quite obvious to me after five years in Thailand. Thailand is, if not the ultimate, it’s one of the best [...]

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The subject of incorporation is one I’m familiar with. I first incorporated back in 1999 when my brother and I were starting online businesses right and left. I needed a cushion between myself and my assets. Without incorporating you and your business are one in the same. When your business gets sued, you get sued. [...]

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Have you ever wondered why our bodies operate at 98.6 degrees F? I have. I do. Often. I blame god for a lot of things. I’m not sure there is a god, I’m an agnostic type as near as I can tell. There may well be a god. God might look exactly like the god [...]

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A couple statements from Jim Blasingame of the SBA (Small Business Administration in the USA). Small businesses make up more than 99.7% of all employers. Home-based businesses account for 53 percent of all small businesses. Writing books in a room in your house is a small business that many of you can do, are doing, [...]

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I know a Qatar diplomat… pity they didn’t mention this guy’s name or have his photo in the story. It was 2004, the season of 3 hurricanes running close to Tampa, Florida where I lived at the time – and had just bought a house. I knew 3 girls from Kyrgystan that were in Tampa, [...]

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The Ultimate Guide to Teaching English in Thailand Click for Info > It’s ballsy to call anything “The Ultimate”… but, this one fits. I reviewed all the ebooks and articles I could find on the subject – some of them novelette length. I took everything good I could find, and added heaps on top of [...]

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Cleansed! A vigilante thriller set in Patong Beach, Thailand just after the Tsunami 2004. Click for Info > Cleansed is my first fiction novel. Dr. Justin Baker, a psychologist from the USA, finds horrifying photos in a dead German’s backpack as he volunteered to find bodies after the 2004 tsunami. What follows is a vigilante [...]

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