1978 was my freshman year at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, IL. I’ll admit I was pretty straight-laced, so I would have...

I had the pleasure of interviewing author Jefferson Shupe for my uniting Americans blog, Vigilant Positivity. He wrote THE BATHWATER...

Buy NOW! Winter is most definitely the time to think about Mary Donahue, who, at the age of 15, is heading into the blizzard winter of...

Buy NOW! Mary Donahue, the 15-year-old protagonist of my novel, WINTER LIGHT, which takes place in 1978-79 Chicago, listens to a lot of...

Buy NOW! There are MILLIONS of books published every year, so when I do as I do occasionally and check my Amazon rating to see #54 for...

Buy NOW! Mary Donahue of WINTER LIGHT was 14 during the 1976 Winter Olympics in Montreal. Already too cool for school and generally...

Buy NOW! Now that it’s summer, I was thinking about my childhood summers in the 1970s back in Chicago. What the season meant: hot, humid...

Mary Donahue, the protagonist of my edgy YA novel WINTER LIGHT, was 7 years old in 1970 when Earth Day was established in the US. I was...

Buy NOW! In WINTER LIGHT, March of 1979 is a pivotal month for 16-year-old Mary Donahue of suburban Chicago. Something big happens to her...

Buy NOW! Happy Women’s History Month! All of my novels revolve around strong women, Mary Donahue of WINTER LIGHT and the forthcoming...

To celebrate the pre-order of Winter Light, I have 5 FREE copies to give away! If you’d like me to put your name in the Magic Pickle Jar...

by Michael Wayne Hampton I’m a sucker for gritty YA stories that show kids precariously straddling that fence between adolescence and...