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

Books

Mandatory Overtime
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Mandatory overtime

A very long time ago, I worked as a machinist in a large manufacturing facility. We usually worked five, ten-hour days. The lathes, drills, saws and presses ran non-stop spewing hot cutting oil into the air for us to breathe, and the […]

Conversations with Rich Bennett
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The Legacy Project podcast

This is easily the best podcast I’ve participated in. Lot’s of fun and a really great interviewer. He made me laugh and we had lots of fun. Please give it a listen.

Dads
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Dads

Dads With every bump, bruise and small cut our love and care for our children is deepened. In retrospect, the internal bumps and bruises seem the deepest, and I wonder whether those emotional traumas are ever totally recovered from. In their young […]

The Heretic
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It’s here!

On June 17th, The Heretic launched on all sites. Initial feedback has been excellent. It is the third in the Emmett Casey series, and maybe the final one. In the diary entries of Mick Casey, where he details the incredibly harrowing details […]

The Heretic is Coming Soon
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The Heretic is coming soon!

The date for The Heretic is set for June 17th! Finally the third edition of the saga of Emmett Casey. A full life lived and the memories of the past that follow him always. Memories of the lives he’s touched, the lives […]