Humorous Science Fiction
Date Published: May 11, 2021
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
At every crossroads he has encountered in life, Sean Brody has made the safe choice. In the year 2046, at the age of ninety-three, Sean is given one final opportunity to deal with his greatest regret. Sean is the only man Marshall Grissom and Marta Hamilton can find who might be able to save Sheila Schuler, their friend and fellow traveler lost in the distant reaches of time. If Sean accepts the task of traveling to his childhood in a parallel universe—with no guarantee that any aspect of the past can be changed—Sean must also accept his death in the only world he knows.
Is There a Message in Your Novel That You Want Readers to Grasp?
My Physics, Lust and Greed books are written primarily to entertain.
I hope they contain some basic human truths, but, as Mark Twain wrote in his preface from Huckleberry Finn: "Persons attempting to find a
motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral
in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be
shot." If a reader is entertained, I’m happy.
Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?
Everything in writing is challenging. That’s the fun of it.
The hardest and least pleasant fun of writing these days is trying to find and
audience in a very crowded market.
How many books have you written and which is your favorite?
Killing Time… Book 3 in the Physics, Lust and Greed series, is the fifth book I’ve published.
I have two more books waiting in the wings: my first non-fiction book which is
the story of the Chad Mitchell Trio and the 60’s era of folk music. My
favorite is probably my first published book, Section Roads, a coming-of-age
novel based on the little Eastern New Mexico town where I grew up.
If You had the chance to cast your main character from
Robert
Duvall as the older Sean Brody because he’s my favorite actor. D.J. Qualls as
Marshall because he strikes me as being very much like the Marshall character
and, despite the book cover, Marshall is not a particularly attractive man.
Alex-Marshall Brown as Marta because she projects the bad-ass edginess fitting
for Marta.
When did you begin writing?
I’ve been writing in one fashion or
another since junior high school.
How long did it take to complete your first book?
The first book I wrote was Taking Time, probably a four-year
effort. I wrote a really bad version of it, because I had a lot to learn about
the craft of fiction. Then I rewrote it a couple more times with the help of editors
and writers’ conferences.
Did you have an author who inspired you to become a writer?
Mark Twain, a New Mexico author named
Richard Bradford, Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams, Christopher Moore.
What is your favorite part of the writing process?
Polishing a first draft.
Describe your latest book in 4 words.
Funny time travel adventure.
Can you share a little bit about your current work or what is in the
future for your writing?
I’ve just finished the first draft of the fourth book in the Physics,
Lust and Greed series entitled The Outlaw Gillis Kerg. We Never Knew
Just What it Was… the Story of the Chad Mitchell Trio will be published in
August.
About The Author
Mike Murphey is a native of eastern New Mexico and spent almost thirty years as an award-winning newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. He left journalism in 1998 to form a business related to adult amateur baseball. At the age of 60, he stopped procrastinating and revived his life-long ambition to write a novel. He is author of Sections, an award-winning coming of age novel set in Eastern New Mexico where Mike grew up. He is also author of The Conman … a Baseball Odyssey, another award-winning novel. Killing Time is the third novel in his Physics, Lust and Greed Series. Mike splits his time between Spokane, Washington and Phoenix, Arizona where he enjoys life as a writer and old-man baseball player.
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