Category: reading
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10 Life-Saving Essentials Every Adventurer Needs: Lessons from Tommy’s Epic 1,200-Mile Trek
In my novel, The Long Walk Home: When the Power Dies, I dropped hints about the Ten Essentials as Tommy’s secret weapon. He mentions them just twice: once while brainstorming packs with the Browns (the family who unofficially adopts him) for their Sacramento trek, and again after grabbing extra supplies with Jason Brown—forcing the group…
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Targeting YA Teens, Hooking Adult Readers: The True Audience for The Long Walk Home: When the Power Dies
Who did I write The Long Walk: When the Power Dies for? The short answer: the young adult market—readers aged 13 to 18, likely skewing 60% boys and 40% girls at launch. With the short story I’m crafting as a reader magnet, I hope to nudge that toward a more even 55/45 split. But here’s…
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Living the Adventure: Tales of Mountains, Seas, and a Boy’s Dream
Recently, I picked up Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas by Greg Child, a climber and mountaineer I’d heard of only in passing. I wish I’d discovered his writing sooner. His beautifully descriptive language evokes the siren call of the Himalayas. Published nine years before Jon Krakauer’s 1997 bestseller Into Thin Air: A Personal Account…
Michael H. Ritterhouse 