Cameron University’s Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Department of Communications, English and Foreign Languages, will welcome LMG “Mike” Swain on Friday, November 15. The prolific horror writer will read selections from his work in Room 2060 of Nance-Boyer Hall starting at 7 p.m. The event is open to the public at no charge.
A native of Altus, Swain’s three passions are riding, writing and enlightening: riding the elsewhither roads on his 2008 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail; writing stories of macabre, murder, mayhem and mirth in the fictional town of Junebug, Oklahoma 74666; and enlightening high school and college students for more than 40 years in the joys of ancient and classical literature and speculative fiction.
Under the pen name of Larry Mike Garmon, Swain has written 13 young adult horror titles, many of which are part of Universal Studio’s “Universal Monsters” series published by Scholastic, Inc., as well as Atari’s “RollerCoaster Tycoon” series, published by Grosset & Dunlap. He has also ghost-authored several Hardy Boys CaseFiles mysteries.
Swain’s recent endeavors include “Feary Tales,” an anthology series not so much of the supernatural but the unnatural, written under the pen name of Edwin A. Dark. He is also completing “Popinjay,” a novel about a dystopian society in which all children are born without gender and are transformed into their True Gender when they are 16.
Samples of his work can be found at his website, www.LMGSwain.com, as well as a newsletter/blog called Deadman Writing.
A member of the Oklahoma Writing Federation, Inc. for 20 years, Swain serves as Second Vice-President. He attends several writing conferences throughout the year as a conference faculty member, panelist or moderator, or to learn more about the craft of writing good fiction from talented writers.
The Visiting Writers series is co-sponsored by Cameron University Lectures and Concerts and Sigma Tau Delta.
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