From EM Kaplan, author of Josie Tucker mysteries.
"I don't ever bandy around the words "tour de force," but Pianist in a Bordello knocked my socks off. Yes, I too, was reminded of Catch-22 by its glib tone and pacing. I also felt a little Hunter S. Thompson. Maybe some John Kennedy Toole... Every once in a while, I come across someone who is simply outstanding. Bravo, Mr. Erickson."
Background
Information
Mike C. Erickson grew up in the idyllic college town of Logan, Utah, but because of a twist of fate he graduated from high school in Honolulu. He left Hawaii brimming with aloha and enrolled at Utah State, where he was awarded two degrees and self-proclaimed minor intellectual status, which was of dubious value when the US Army invited him to vacation in South-East Asia. Ten days after leaving Vietnam, he began decades of dispensing pearls of wisdom as a high school history teacher, academic decathlon coach, and on occasion, as a community college instructor in the Sacramento area. Mike and his wife Trudy, have two grown sons and a grandson born soon after this novel is published. When not in Hawaii or another exotic locale, they live in Gold River, California. This is his first novel.
Birth Place
Gold River, CA United States
Accomplishments
Finalist in Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Humor)
Two first places Colorado Independent Publishers (Historical Fiction and Humor)
BRAG Medallion Honoree 2015
Top Pick - Underground Book Reviews
Top 10 Percent of Indie Books: Kirkus and Red City Reviews
Award winner: Northern California Publishers and Authors
Contact Information
Mike C. Erickson - Tri- Rhyme Publications
11454 Tunnel Hill Way
Gold River CA 95670
United States