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Mike Wells
About
For me, there's nothing more exciting than putting someimaginary character into an unusual situation and seeing what happens next. I don't write fromoutlines, so I never know how a story will turn out until I actually arrive theremyself. Thisis what gets me up in the morning and keeps me clicking away at the keyboard. And, hopefully, this is what keeps readers turning the pages.
I've been writing fiction most of my life, and much of themoney I've made in other ways has financed my writing career. I've been lucky enough to travel to manydifferent parts of the world--I've lived for extended periods in Russia, Holland,France, Cyprus, Latvia, and Aruba. I'vehad some bizarre experiences in those exotic locales and haveincorporated a few of them in my stories.
I write mostly thrillers and suspense novels, for adults andyoung adults. I suppose I am a hopeless romantic, as there is always a love story woven into my novels (I've also heard that this makes books sell!) I've written a few other types of stories, too. "Cosmic Casanova," aromantic comedy, was translated into Russian and published serially in a popularwoman's magazine. I also penned a moviescript, “Art & Soul,” a dark romantic drama. This was optioned by the producer of “Paris,Texas," but never was never actually made into a movie. Similarly, I was contracted by a producer at LucasFilms to write the screen adaptation of“Forgotten Impulses,” a New York Times bestselling novel, but this script went into Hollywood's infamous "development hell" and has yet to see the silver screen.
Some of my books, particularly the young adult novels, are popular with non-native English speakers or people who are studying English as a second language (ESL). Wild Child has been incorporated into the reading curriculum of several high schools in Latvia, which came as a complete surprise to me. I'm told it's is due to my clear, simple writing style--students of English say my stories are easy to follow, and that they can relate to the issues and situations I explore.
Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, USA, I earned degrees in engineering from Vanderbilt University, including a PhD. I've taught at Vanderbilt, OxfordBrookes, Queen Mary University London, University of Warwick, and CityUniversity London.
I currently live in the UK and teach in thecreative writing program at the University of Oxford.
At the moment, I'm very excited about growing popularity of ebooks. This new technology has brought many new benefits to writers and readers alike. For writers, it's now possible for us to have fast, direct contact with readers, which is great for feedback and getting to know the people who read our books. For readers, there are many benefits was well--ebooks are cheaper and easier to carry around that paper-printed books, and the process of buying them is much faster and more convenient.
Right now I'm putting a lot of time and energy into converting everything I've written to ebook format so that it can be read on electronic readingdevices such as the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Stanza, aswell as Palm and Apple (iPad, iPhone, iPod, etc.) devices.
Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God
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<p>“<em>We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”(</em>Teilhard de Chardin<em>)</em></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;"><em>Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God </em> is as layered as a French cassoulet, as diverting, satisfying and as rich. Each reader will spoon this book differently. On the surface it seems to be a simple and light-hearted poetic journey through the history of Western thought, dominantly scientific, but enriched with painting and music. Beneath that surface is the sauce of a new evolutionary idea, involution; the informing of all matter by consciousness, encoded and communicating throughout the natural world. A book about the cathedral of consciousness could have used any language to paint it, but science is perhaps most in need of new vision, and its chronology is already familiar.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The author offers a bold alternative vision of both science and creation: she suggests that science has been incrementally the recovery of memory, the memory of evolution/involution</span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">.</em></p><p>“<em> Involution proposes that humans carry within them the history of the universe, which is (re)discovered by the individual genius when the time is ripe. All is stored within our DNA and awaits revelation. Such piecemeal revelations set our finite lives in an eternal chain of co-creation and these new leaps of discovery are compared to mystical experience</em>” (From a reviewer)</p><p>Each unique contributor served the collective and universal return to holism and unity. Thus the geniuses of the scientific journey, like the spiritual visionaries alongside, have threaded the rosary of science with the beads of inspiration, and through them returned Man to his spiritual nature and origin.</p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The separation between experience and the rational intellect of science has, by modelling memory as theory, separated its understanding from the consciousness of all, and perceives mind and matter as separate, God and Man as distinct. This work is a dance towards their re-unification: Saints and scientists break the same bread.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">All of time and all the disciplines of science are needed for the evidence. Through swift (and sometimes sparring) Cantos of dialogue between Reason and Soul, Philippa Rees takes the reader on a monumental journey through the history of everything – with the evolution of man as one side of the coin and involution the other. The poetic narrative is augmented by learned and extensive footnotes offering background knowledge which in themselves are fascinating. In effect there are two books, offering a right and left brain approach. The twin spirals of a DNA shaped book intertwine external and internal and find, between them, one journey, Man’s recovery of Himself., and (hopefully) the Creation’s recovery of a nobler Man.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">From the same review “</span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">The reader who finishes the book will not be the same as the one who began it. New ideas will expand the mind but more profoundly, the deep, moving power of the verse will affect the heart.</em></p><p><em>(Marianne Rankin: Director of Communications, Alister Hardy Trust)</em></p><p> </p>