Michael draws book characters, answers questions, and tells tales. With its strong emphasis on nature and the outdoors this program lends itself to a school wide focus on environment and science, as well as an exciting introduction to the writing process. Fifty Minute Programs. Scheduling of multi-day visits to more than one school is encouraged to help schools save of the cost of travel expenses. Book selling and autographing are available.
Few people get to live and work in a place like Yosemite National Park for two decades.
This experience and my years of teaching have enriched me with unlimited book ideas. Though I continue to teach nature workshops in the park I consider myself a full-time author. In the next year I have six new books being released. I take my writing seriously, but I try not to write overly serious books. In researching biographies I seek out humorous anecdotes and balance them with heavy issues such as discrimination.