WriterWolven is staying true to the philosophy of striving to be 1% better every day; we're now transitioning into a writer's guild, publishing our own works together as a team instead of just the individual efforts of Mike Norton. Welcome Jinx, the first newly recruit wolf in the pack.
The About section of the website is about to turn into a Staff page, instead. Little changes around the site will be made to indicate a group effort instead of one man.
News
-JAWS is available now!
The first chapter of Just Another War Story is available here.
Literature
Fighting for Redemption
Written By: Mike Norton
Fighting for Redemption is the biography of a boy who was born to a racially insecure young mother and a murdered drug dealer. This true story tracks Mike’s ascension into manhood and the mistakes that he makes along the way. Mike is treated with irreverence by his mother and stepfather before he becomes a teenager. The rejection by his own family causes him to morph into a social outcast who develops an imaginary friend named Nova to quell his loneliness and guide him through some of the highest thresholds of physical, mental, and emotional pain.
To mentally survive an abusive parent, hospitalization for malnourishment, and flesh-eating bacteria, Mike too often escaped into the realm of fantasy--emulating the characters that he admired in movies, video-games, and Japanese anime. Through a fateful intervention, he is taught Chinese martial arts by three unlikely friends who indirectly lead him to compete in underground illegal fight-clubs. Once old enough to join the military, Mike enters Navy SEAL training to chase the ideal and accepted individual that his imaginary friend wants him to be. This path leads him on a journey of heartbreak, suicidal depression, and faithlessness that would change his life forever.
Nonfiction.
4 out of 5 stars
"If you're someone who has ever felt lonely, has ever wished they could be something more than they are, has ever wanted ever so desperately to be loved and accepted, someone who has ever looked at the knife, the rope, the pills and wondered how much it would hurt; someone who feels that ever step they take is a catastrophic failure - someone who is finding this run on sentence to be over dramatic, read this book. I'm serious. If you're someone who does not enjoy kitten crushingly sad emotional and dark stories then I wouldn't bother. " -A Barnes & Noble reviewer
Fighting for Redemption: Hangambiiki by Mike Norton, a martial artist, veteran, and writer, is an
autobiographical account of his tumultuous life, which, in a matter of 23 years, seems to have spanned
a lifetime of experiences. His story chronicles his troubled childhood and his life-changing tour of duty in
the United States Navy.
As a social outcast, Mike develops an imaginary friend named Nova, to whom he turns when he is faced
with times of adversity that range from hospitalization for malnourishment and enduring beatings from
children who did not accept his mixed heritage to a stepfather who rejected him for his differences. He
recalls that he "went into the ghetto soft and proper," but left with the "dream of becoming one of the
greatest fighters the world had ever seen."
Mike undergoes a true metamorphosis from an underweight high school freshman to a martial artist;
competing in underground fight clubs and entering Navy SEAL training to become the ideal that Nova
wants him to be. Through his story, readers are shown that Norton has truly accomplished his goal of
becoming one of the greatest fighters the world has ever seen, fighting to overcome all of the odds
that stood in his way. Norton fuses a unique combination of themes that range from child abuse and
Japanese anime to military life, and, ultimately, personal growth.
Fighting for Redemption is motivated by Norton's desire to ask for forgiveness for all of the mistakes
of his life and to encourage people to think differently about the way we live our lives in everyday
American culture, written with startling self-awareness and a gift for tapping into the human mind
to help his readers understand the motivations of those around him. Norton's life story will touch
the hearts of his readers, and will keep them furiously turning pages from cover- to-cover as his truly
intriguing tale unfolds.
-Todd Rutherford (Afterword Marketing)
Just Another War Story
Written By: Mike Norton
Just Another War Story is a tragic historical novel about a man named Brady, an honorable veteran during the Vietnam War who falls victim to alcoholism and a heroin addiction. His account is told from two fronts, as if he were two different people--his story before and after his addictions, gradually revealed through a series of interlinking flashbacks. He is enabled by a young Vietnamese woman named Lien, who loves him with all of her heart...but his neglect and tyrannical desires for sweet poisons are destroying her, and what they could have.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking; the Vietnamese New Year is right around the corner, and through a series of patrols and assaults, Brady's platoon is picking up leads to what could be a massive attack by the Vietcong on every major American occupied territory.
Follow Brady through multiple battles against two kinds of enemies: the war against the Vietcong, and the war against himself. He could realize the err of his ways and change before its too late, or he could be swept away by the winds of war...and lose the only person left in the world who loves him.
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