The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – A Series Overview

What’s it About? Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are a pair of hard-luck adventurers for hire with an unfortunate knack for landing jobs that pay too little and threaten their lives too much. Erika Racewind is a hardened elven warrior who doesn’t like people, except maybe when she’s killing them. Winifred Graceword is a kindhearted elven priestess skilled in the healing arts.

http://innsmouthlook.com/2026/03/19/the-adventures-of-strongarm-lightfoot-a-series-overview-104/

Weekly Update – March 17, 2026

This will be a quick one, folks, because I'm on staycation this week and spending a lot of my time writing or with my wife and not much else is going on. As it's St. Patrick's Day, I'll use my time to share with you the best piece of Irish comedy ever. WRITING PROJECTS Action Figures - Legacies: Finished, waiting on cover art.

http://innsmouthlook.com/2026/03/17/weekly-update-march-17-2026/

Action Figures – A Series Overview

What’s it About? The series focuses on Carrie Hauser, a 15-year-old girl who one summer experiences two life-changing events: her parents announce they’re getting divorced, and she gains superhuman abilities after encountering a dying extraterrestrial after he falls to Earth. Her adventure begins after Carrie and her mother Christina move back to Christina’s childhood home town of Kingsport, Massachusetts, and Carrie meets four teens…

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Weekly Update – March 10, 2026

The temperatures in my area are finally rising above freezing, which means the little baseboard heater in my basement office is up to the task of keeping the space comfortable, and that mean I was finally able to get back inti The Writer's Block on Sunday and have a killer writing day. I've switched gears a little. The horror novel is on the sideboard for a while because the YA horror project took over my brain, so I've been pounding away…

http://innsmouthlook.com/2026/03/10/weekly-update-march-10-2026/

Station Identification Time

Who Am I? I’m a writer originally from Falmouth, MA who now lives in Oxford, MA with my awesome wife Veronica, and our two dogs and three cats who don't like to let us sleep in. After 15 years with the Falmouth Enterprise, where I worked as a general and political reporter, blogger, and editor, I left the news industry to focus on my creative writing.

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Weekly Update – March 3, 2026

This is of those slow-week-but-not-really weeks. Lots of work got done on various projects, but nothing that makes for a meaty blog post. Things are moving along, and that's really all there is to say. WRITING PROJECTS Action Figures - Legacies 2 - Finished, waiting on cover art. Tentative release date: 2026. The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot - A Wanton Criminal…

http://innsmouthlook.com/2026/03/03/weekly-update-march-3-2026/

The Best of the Rest

If you enjoy Michael's two series, Action Figures and The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot, check out these anthologies, collections, and side-projects featuring his work. Available on Amazon, and signed print editions may be purchased directly from the author. Beneath the Mask - A Superhero Romance Anthology features ten tantalizing tales of masked heroes saving the day and falling in love.

http://innsmouthlook.com/2026/02/26/the-best-of-the-rest-26/

Weekly Update – February 24, 2026

As I write this on Sunday morning, my area is looking at yet another significant snowstorm that might keep me trapped at home Monday. Obviously, you're reading this on Tuesday, so let's all optimistically assume that was the case and I got a bonus writing day. Which is good because my Mystery Project #3 has been making its presence known in my brain and I've been letting it out in dribs and drabs, usually on weekday mornings as I have…

http://innsmouthlook.com/2026/02/24/weekly-update-february-24-2026/

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – A Series Overview

What’s it About? Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are a pair of hard-luck adventurers for hire with an unfortunate knack for landing jobs that pay too little and threaten their lives too much. Erika Racewind is a hardened elven warrior who doesn’t like people, except maybe when she’s killing them. Winifred Graceword is a kindhearted elven priestess skilled in the healing arts.

http://innsmouthlook.com/2026/02/19/the-adventures-of-strongarm-lightfoot-a-series-overview-103/

Weekly Update – February 17, 2026

If you run in writer/author circles online, particularly on Bluesky, you may have heard of the controversy surrounding an author operating under the pseudonym "Coral Hart" and a pandering article in the New York Times about her use of generative AI to churn out dozens of quickie romance novels and, allegedly, make big money doing so. If you haven't? Well, I just summarized the situation for you.

http://innsmouthlook.com/2026/02/17/weekly-update-february-17-2026-2/