Category Archives: Book Of Lost Doors

Strange Days Waiting: The stories of Endless Summer

Posted on August 20, 2020 by MishaBurnett

The Kickstarter for my latest short fiction collection,  Endless Summer,  is now live. Now, I’ve gone on record in this blog as saying that I am not a Science Fiction writer. So what does it mean that this collection is … Continue reading →

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Want a signed set of The Book Of Lost Doors?

Posted on August 4, 2018 by MishaBurnett

It is coming down to the wire for Cirsova.  He wants to raise $5,000 to fund next year’s run of the magazine, and he’s up to just over $3,600 as of this writing, with 6 days to go. Let me … Continue reading →

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Where your eyes don’t go a filthy scarecrow waves his broomstick arms and does a parody of each unconscious thing you do

Posted on October 2, 2017 by MishaBurnett

Science Fiction is a lot less Weird than it used to be. I am using Weird here is a particular philosophical sense (in the vain hopes that one day “Weird in the sense of Burnett” will become a common phrase … Continue reading →

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A Few References

Posted on July 26, 2017 by MishaBurnett

Just for the heck of it, here are some of the Easter eggs I stuck into The Book Of Lost Doors.  These are just a few I can come up with off the top of my head, I’m sure there … Continue reading →

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Depression and the sophomore slump

Posted on September 5, 2016 by MishaBurnett

While I finished what is technically my fourth novel a year ago, more and more I am thinking of The Book Of Lost Doors as one big story in four acts. I didn’t set out for it to be that, … Continue reading →

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What Is “The Book Of Lost Doors”?

Posted on July 11, 2016 by MishaBurnett

The Book Of Lost Doors is the collective name for my series of four novels, Catskinner’s Book, Cannibal Hearts, The Worms Of Heaven, and Gingerbread Wolves.              The four books tell the story of James and … Continue reading →

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The Joys Of Being An Ex-Author

Posted on April 3, 2016 by MishaBurnett

Last summer I published Gingerbread Wolves, the fourth novel in my series The Book Of Lost Doors.  After multiple false starts on a fifth novel I realized that it was the final book in that series.  I have, quite simply, … Continue reading →

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A Season Of Rest

Posted on February 13, 2016 by MishaBurnett

It’s the middle of February and I haven’t begun another novel. I’m okay with that. Writing The Book Of Lost Doors was a lot of work.  Looking back at it now, with a little distance, I can see that I … Continue reading →

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And the last one

Posted on December 31, 2015 by MishaBurnett

I have decided to rewrite the blurbs for my novels as sonnets.  In conclusion: Gingerbread Wolves One lovely petal, gone to mud One other, schooled in the murder’s way One man wades knee-deep in blood One thing, not mortal, to … Continue reading →

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The Worms Of Heaven sonnet

Posted on December 31, 2015 by MishaBurnett

I have decided to rewrite the blurbs for my novels as sonnets. And to continue: The Worms Of Heaven Cry out, the scarlet queen’s mislaid! Ensnared by hidden army’s plot Or is this Agony’s charade? Who is the villain and … Continue reading →

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