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Hi, I'm Mike Nelson.

Fiction Author

I'm a retired physician who never thought he'd become a published author. I did so in the form of a crime novel trilogy under the name Michael Deeze and thought I was done. But I'm a proud father too and gladly joined my daughter Isabelle in starting a young adult fantasy series based on our travels when she was a young girl. I'm also a Vietnam veteran and have very much enjoyed this aspect of civilian life. Read More

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A Christmas Story

            In our town, Christmas in particular sparked an informal and good-natured competition for best window decoration and none were rarely better than the effort put forth by our local hardware store and Charlie Fedderson.  Charlie ruled the hardware store like a […]

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Readin’ and Writin’

                As the character, Barney Fife, Don Knotts once uttered some incredible wisdom.  When asked if he was afraid, he replied; “There’s nothin’ to fear but fear itself—and that’s what I got—fear itself!”  I’ve always thought that was a statement of profound […]

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Country roads

I drive down country roads, far from scheduled time and harried people.  The road, bordered by 3-strand barbed wire fence that defines pasture and contains the placid cattle that walk the same cow path that their predecessors walked, barn to pasture, pasture […]

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Retirement!?!

After almost sixty years of getting up and going to work in the morning, every morning. Or every night, because I didn’t always work during daylight hours. But what I did do, was go to work. With rarely a day off other […]

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“Citywide Blackout”

On September 23, 2023, Mike and Isabelle Nelson were interviewed by Max Bowen for his show “Citywide Blackout,” discussing Annie Abbott, the CastleChaos MultiCon, and lots more. You can listen to their hearty conversation – released on October 20, 2023, – via […]

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Book reading on “Reader’s Intrigue”

“Reader’s Intrigue,” a show from RB Media, features authors doing a reading of their work. On August 27, 2023, Randi-Lee Bowslaugh released an episode that has Mike Nelson talking about himself, “Annie Abbott and the Druid Stones,” and reading an excerpt from […]