His first reading love was fantasy, and he hoped to foster a similar reaction in his then thirteen-year-old daughter who struggled due to dyslexia. Instead, he wrote a series of books that had been building in his head during his hiatus.

Never turned out to be too long for Michael, and after a decade, he returned to the keyboard in his forties, but with one condition: He wouldn't seek publication. Since insanity is repeating the same action while expecting a different result, he made the rational choice and quit, vowing never to write creatively again. During that time, he wrote thirteen novels but found no interest from the publishing industry. As an adult, Michael spent more than ten years developing his craft by studying authors such as Stephen King, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. That spark ignited a flame, and Michael's desire to fill blank pages became a life-long obsession. When just a boy, Michael found a typewriter in the basement of a friend's house, inserted a blank piece of paper, and typed, 'It was a dark and stormy night.' He was just ten years old and mimicking the only writer he knew at the time: Snoopy. Sullivan is a New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post bestselling author, and no one is more surprised by those facts than he.

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