Author Archives: M. H. Lee

About M. H. Lee

M.H. Lee is a speculative fiction writer currently residing in Colorado whose stories are sometimes dark, sometimes funny, sometimes darkly funny, but hopefully always thought-provoking and entertaining.

Priorities

Posted on October 21, 2017

It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m sitting here at my desk trying to motivate myself to work on a story that just doesn’t want to come together. It’s a holiday story so if I want to publish it this year I … Continue reading →

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Sort Of Kind Of Outing Myself

Posted on July 19, 2017

Not in the traditional sense of outing yourself, but more in the “I have too many pen names to keep track of and I’m tired of keeping them all separate” sense of things. I’ve started a new blog at http://www.mlhumphrey.com. … Continue reading →

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Lucky Number Seven

Posted on July 10, 2017

This week starts the seventh year of my writing journey. I’m not where I wanted to be, but I’m making forward progress.  And I have to keep in mind that when I started down this path I had heard that … Continue reading →

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I Should Be Happier

Posted on June 14, 2017

I’m sitting here in my own house with pup snoring somewhere down the hallway and my day is completely my own. I can write, I can sit out on the porch and read a book. I’m in good (enough) health.  … Continue reading →

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I Know You Mean Well, But…

Posted on June 2, 2017

So I mentioned a little bit ago that I have a friend who’s dealing with brain tumors.  They’ve set up a FB page to keep everyone posted about what’s going on so I’m getting to see not just updates by … Continue reading →

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You Could, But Have You?

Posted on May 23, 2017

That’s the much more polite version of what I found myself wanting to say more than once this weekend.  I was visiting a good friend and her spouse and the spouse–who was once incredibly successful but basically hasn’t done much … Continue reading →

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Writing Rules Are For Shit

Posted on May 11, 2017

So on an agent blog this morning someone had written in to talk about how “bad” J.K. Rowling’s writing is.  I’ll note that they failed to mark the two times in her Harry Potter books she used a really strange … Continue reading →

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That Gray Area Between Death and Life

Posted on May 3, 2017

I’d written about 300 words of a post about ethics and how like people gravitate to like people and then realized I just didn’t want to go there today.  But…Since I’m here… A very good friend of mine just found … Continue reading →

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Writing Is the Easy Part

Posted on April 20, 2017

I’m weird. I know this.  Things that others like, I hate.  And I’m almost pathological in my negative reaction to being marketed to. I do not like to be sold and I’m very, very sensitive to any signs that it’s … Continue reading →

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Let’s Talk Numbers

Posted on March 10, 2017

So, as usual when I know I should be writing but for some reason am stuck, I spent some time today playing with my Access database where I track sales across eight different platforms, eight different pen names, and, as … Continue reading →

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