COVERT DREAMS, my third novel

What would you do if you suddenly had the same dream night after after? How would you react if that dream started to become increasingly more violent? What would you do if your spouse suddenly disappeared without trace upon her arrival in Saudi Arabia? How would you react if every trace of her very existence had suddenly disappeared along with her? Munich, Germany, is widely known as the city of live and let live, but will she live up to her name in this international thriller? Saudi Arabia is a vast land of mystery, and she does not disappoint in this suspenseful thriller. Come see for yourselves. The ride will keep you on the edge of your chair. Come see how COVERT DREAMS lives up to its name.

Mike's Home Away from Home: The Famous UnionMichael MeyerAmazon KindleB005F...

Mike's Home Away from Home: The Famous Union
Michael Meyer
Amazon Kindle
B005F...: The Famous Union Michael Meyer Amazon Kindle B005FZMVB6, $2.99, www.amazon.com The Famous Union provides a fine novel revolving around two v...

The Famous Union
Michael Meyer
Amazon Kindle
B005FZMVB6, $2.99, www.amazon.com

The Famous Union provides a fine novel revolving around two very different professors starting their first year teaching at Famous Union College, a small "pretty college, with pretty buildings and pretty coeds and a lot of trees."

The entire faculty at Famous Union is unexpected, from an overworked Chaucer expert who has become obsessed with literature after failed love to one "Bill, the hybrid", whose life changes after he's mistakenly accosted by a polite gunman.

Add an unexpected run on the Chaucer course, an exhibitionist school secretary, and a host of other crazy academics and you have a whimsical spin through a college that can best be described as 'quirky and off-beat'.

The coach's wife Bertha is a case in point: a writer by trade, she sees fit to hand her temperamental husband a loving 'script' for togetherness which he dutifully reads: until the canned last too-loving line drives him into swearing and sends her away in tears (""F...U...C!" he shouted out to the world, using the forbidden acronym that perfectly suited his current frame of mind...It isn't fair, she was thinking. I worked so hard on it this time just to insure that it would be short and sweet, and now this. She quickly ran off to the back bathroom in order to have a good cry.")

One of the lines in The Famous Union says it all: "life is absurd" - and so are the hilarious characters that keep entering and making impressions on the reader.

Any with a background in academic circles will recognize the zany politics and personalities that often revolve in upper echelon education - and will find the whole concept filled with fun; particularly when the entire football team gets behind a coach who wants to oust wayward English teacher Bill to get more school money for his team.

The Famous Union is a comedy romp through the halls of academic insanity - and presents a school whose motto is "just wait till next year". Readers - especially those familiar with academic ironies - will find it filled with fun!


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Get a kick out of this!

Get a kick out of my latest author interview.
http://www.1stauthorinterviews.com/2011/09/interview-with-michael-meyer-author-of.html

To all my readers: Thank you!

To all my wonderful readers out there, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for purchasing one or more of my books. I hope you enjoy what you read and that you find yourself laughing out loud at times since laughter is such a healthy thing. I encourage you to leave an honest review of my work on my Amazon Kindle author site. I gain so much pleasure from writing, but it can be such a lonely business at times. Once again, thank you so much for reading my work.

Mike 

New author interview and book review

Check out my new author interview and book review, both posted today at Hampton Reviews.
Michael Meyer
Review:  http://hampton-networks.com/book-reviews/the-famous-union-by-mike-meyer/

The interview:  http://hampton-networks.com/book-reviews/welcome-michael-meyers/

A Riverside, CA, PRESS ENTERPRISE article

10:00 PM PDT on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 By PETER FISCHETTI Correspondent news@pe.comMike Meyer spent 40 years teaching students how to write. Now he's showing them how to write. After retiring in December from his most recent position as professor of writing at Riverside City College, the 63-year-old Temecula resident has returned to his passion for writing by completing his first two novels. The first, published last month, is "The Survival of Marvin Baines," a not-so-serious look at one man's quandaries and foibles as he approaches midlife. The second, "The Famous Union," published last week, is set on a small California college campus, where tough financial decisions bring about disruption and hilarity to a once-proud institution of higher learning. Both books are available at amazon.com. Since earning his bachelor's and master's degrees from Sonoma State University, Meyer has taught writing -- mostly college freshman composition -- all over the world, beginning at Utah State University in 1971. He has since taught at universities in Saudi Arabia, Portland and the Virgin Islands before joining Riverside City College in 1986. In "The Famous Union," Meyer imagines what would happen if budget constraints in education forced a college to drop the freshman composition class -- which is a required course in every other school in the country. "Those struggles are not far removed from what is actually taking place in our economically strapped nation today," he said. As an instructor, he said, "I had hardworking, serious students at all institutions, and at all times of my career, but I also had too many who allowed themselves to merely slip by, and too many who made too little attempt to even do that. Therefore, teaching was both exciting and very fulfilling, but it was also quite frustrating at times. "I feel that too many students today just do not strive to push themselves to their full potential. The California community college system, for instance, is, to my way of thinking, the greatest higher education system in the world. It is for everyone. People who have never before seen success can have a second or third chance, and at any age." While the great writers may be born with talent, everyone can improve their writing skills, Meyer said. "I've had students who said they never had an interest, so you spark an interest," he said. "They may have a passion, something they want to say, and you can teach them the format to do that." Among the writing exercises he used as an instructor is to give students an image or part of a sentence. "I'd have them write non-stop for 20 minutes on that subject, take a break, then go over it and make changes. I also suggest starting a journal and write every day. And read. Every great writer is a great reader." Meyer's first wife died in 1969. He remarried three years ago. His wife, Kitty, is a retired elementary school teacher. With two books on the shelf, Meyer is at work on his third novel, a thriller set in Germany and Saudi Arabia. If you have an idea for an Inland People profile, contact Assistant Metro Editor Mark Acosta at 951-375-3725 or macosta@PE.com INLAND PEOPLE Mike Meyer AGE: 63 RESIDENCE: Temecula OCCUPATION: Retired in December after 40 years of teaching, most recently at Riverside City College NOTABLE: Completed and published two novels in the last month, and is working on a third.

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