1 rating | 0 reviews | avg rating:4.00

Michael Clark’s Followers

None yet.

Michael’s Bookshelves

to-read (0)
currently-reading (0)
read (1)

Michael’s Friends (18)

Carol Pickett

232 books | 24 friends

Andrea

68 books | 19 friends

Reed Clark

1 book | 44 friends

Kaelyn Korte

0 books | 119 friends

Michael Daley

0 books | 47 friends

Keilty Sebastian

0 books | 35 friends

Shalyn

2,262 books | 148 friends

Rebecca Bromels

1,482 books | 78 friends

More friends…

Michael Clark

Goodreads Author

Born

Washington DC, The United States

Website

https://deconarts.com/joint72

Twitter

joint72novel

Genre

Fiction, Mystery

Influences

John Irving, Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, Joseph Heller, too many others to ...more

Member Since

August 2018

edit data

Michael Clark has been a military school cadet, a musician, a motorcycle journalist, a janitor, and a Human Resources executive (which is akin to janitorial work, but more lucrative). Today, he is a creative artist in multiple genres.

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Michael Clark questions, please sign up.

Popular Answered Questions

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Michael Clark Joint '72 is fiction, but inspired in part by a real murder committed at a boarding school I attended, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. In the bo…moreJoint '72 is fiction, but inspired in part by a real murder committed at a boarding school I attended, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. In the book, the mystery is WHO did it; in the real-life mystery, it was not who, but WHY the crime was committed, and that remains a mystery to this day, probably to everyone except the person who did it.

If you're now thinking, "Yeah, but besides that..." I'd have to say the greatest mystery in my life is the same one that anyone who engages in any sort of self-examination often worries about: Just what do other people really think of me? Do they trust me? Feel the same toward me that I do toward them? Love me? Think I'm funny, brave, wise, strong, stoic?

You'll see that happening in some of Dub Wiggins' introspections in Joint '72, but the phenomenon is an integral part of the human condition and deserves tons of examination in fiction and elsewhere. I've been through a few formal exercises that demonstrated huge gaps between how I perceive myself v. how others perceive me. My gaps could give the Grand Canyon some competition.

So there's a great mystery for me, and for everyone. Personally, I never believe someone who says they don't care what others think of them. They are usually the first to seek validation from others when they are feeling insecure -- but they do so with great craft and stealth.

Thanks for your question!

(less)

flag

like
Comment

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Michael Clark Looking at my first novel in hardcover on our coffee table and being able to say with a fair amount of pride, "I made that."…moreLooking at my first novel in hardcover on our coffee table and being able to say with a fair amount of pride, "I made that."(less)

flag