by Michael Tabor | Dec 21, 2025 | Blog
What is The Choice about? My new novel, The Choice, is about the life and times of John of Salisbury; but, you may ask, who the heck was John of Salisbury and why should anyone be interested in him and what he did? I first came across his name almost twenty... 
by Michael Tabor | Dec 7, 2022 | Blog
What makes a good short story? What makes a good collection of stories? When one writes, or should I say, attempts to write a modern short story one has to ask oneself what will make it interesting to contemporary readers and what will make it stick in their... 
by Michael Tabor | Oct 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
About The Inquisition A number of people have asked me about this story, a contemporary short story about cancer. Why did I write it as a hybrid of narrative prose and play script, and why did I choose such grim material, namely cancer and the Stalinist terror? The... 
by Michael Tabor | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog
Where do the stories come from? Where do my ideas for contemporary short stories come from? I sometimes think that I’m a bit like a magpie—maybe even a thieving magpie—in that I’m attracted to things that catch my eye (or my ear). Many of the stories in both... 
by Michael Tabor | Sep 14, 2015 | Business Planning, Content Creation, Marketing, Sales, Social Media, Webinars
Why write about Aphasia? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines aphasia as the “loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection).” Some of you may know about aphasia...