Michael Bunker
Michael Bunker is a USA Today Bestselling author, renaissance man, off-grid expert, husband, and father of four children. He’s the mixologist at Lucille + Mabel restaurant, rolls cigars, makes bourbon, writes books…and occasionally tilts at windmills. In November of 2015, Variety Magazine announced that Michael had sold a film/tv option for his bestselling novel Pennsylvania to Jorgensen Pictures. JP is currently developing Pennsylvania for production into a feature film. Hollywood heavyweight and Production Design superstar Patrick Tatopoulos (Independence Day, Maleficent 2, the 300, iRobot) is slated to direct the Pennsylvania feature film. Michael currently has two film options working in Hollywood.
Michael has been called the “father” of the Amish/Scifi genre but that isn’t all that he writes. He is the author of several popular and acclaimed works of dystopian sci-fi, including the Amazon top 20 overall bestselling Amish Sci-fi thriller Pennsylvania, the groundbreaking dystopian vision Hugh Howey called “a brilliant tale of extra-planetary colonization.” He also has written the epic post-apocalyptic novel WICK, the Amish/Robot thriller Brother, Frank, as well as many nonfiction works including the non-fiction Amazon overall top 30 national bestseller Surviving Off Off-Grid. Michael was hired by Amazon.com through their Kindle Worlds and Kindle Serials programs to write the first ever commissioned novel set in the World of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
Michael has been featured on NPR, HuffPost Live, Molly Green, and Ozy.com, along with hundreds of print, radio, and podcast interviews. He’s very pleased to be offering regular columns to BrownwoodNews.com.
MICHAEL BUNKER: A memory of the future
Baker Street was filling up with people and some of them had claimed picnic tables as the opening band warmed up. Workers had closed off the street before sunset and now, as darkness fell, the temperature was
MICHAEL BUNKER: I Want
I want what I want, but with no responsibilities, get it? Can we re-arrange the world so it’ll work like that for me? Back in the day when we lived in Lubbock, people complained all the time.
MICHAEL BUNKER: A Big Ol’ Fun Brownwood Weekend
I’ve been absent without leave. I’ve been bad. Sometimes, writing isn’t a direct line between a beginning and a destination. Sometimes it’s a very interrupted walk, meandering among the trees, restarting, searching, resting. That makes it sound
MICHAEL BUNKER: Blood Money and Flood Waters and the Polls
This morning was a beautiful walk through a mostly empty and quiet downtown. We love our Sunday walks, and now the morning temperature is just perfect even with our short sleeves, and there was just a hint
MICHAEL BUNKER: To Portland and Back
Hey Brownwood. I’ve been out-of-pocket for a few weeks, but I’m glad to be back in the saddle (to mix metaphors.) It was nice to sit outside on Tuesday morning and watch all the rain come down.
MICHAEL BUNKER: Steve Harris Died
That’s kind of the way I’ve been headlining these posts. Sometimes I stare at this screen and don’t know what to say. Or, how to say it. So I just type. I know the topic: Steve Harris
MICHAEL BUNKER: Downtown Living
Sci-fi flash forward. This is the movie you’re signed up for… The billionaire oligarchs, the cultural and economic Marxists, and the agents of national demoralization all agree on a cashless system that operates using a state-operated cryptocurrency
MICHAEL BUNKER: A Tale of Two Cities and a Winter Holiday Message in August
This column will be about business and Brownwood and Christmas and how we want to live, but it’ll take some fun routes to get there. Some of you may be able to recall these opening lines of
MICHAEL BUNKER: What if I’m Smart?
Not too long ago, I wrote an article here entitled “What if I’m Dumb,” and it would be better if you read that one before reading this one. But it’s not mandatory or anything. In that article,