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Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan7/5/2023 Michael discovered that never is a very long time and ended his writing hiatus a decade later but with a condition: he wouldn't seek publication (as doing so was just too painful). During that time he wrote thirteen novels, and after finding no traction in publishing, he quit and vowed never to write creatively again. For ten years Michael developed his craft by studying authors such as Stephen King, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. But the desire to fill the blank page and see what doors the typewriter keys would unlock wouldn't let him go. He was just eight years old at the time and mimicking Snoopy so we'll forgive the use of that overused opening. Sullivan inserted a blank piece of paper and typed: It was a dark and stormy night. After finding a manual typewriter in the basement of a friend's house, Michael J.
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