Michael Coorlim


Biography

Michael Coorlim is a Chicago-based freelance copywriter, author, and screenwriter. He writes for the production company Uncanny Valley Studios, and is in the middle of pre-production for a multi-media focused web series. He maintains a blog on postmodern media, dabbles in indie game development, and is a bit of a foodie.

The stories and screenplays that Michael Coorlim writes tend towards the dark and fantastic. His works cover a wide span of genre, from steampunk mystery to contemporary urban fantasy to existential psychodrama, but always with a twist of the surreal, always with a glimpse into the darker side of the human condition.

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Books

The Collected Bartleby and James Adventures    by Michael Coorlim
Price: $8.99 USD. 36660 words. Published by PoMoCo Press  on April 10, 2012. Fiction.

Alton Bartleby is a savvy deductive savant. James Wainwright is a socially awkward inventive genius. Together the pair of consulting detectives hunt steampunk monstrosities and protect Victorian London from danger for the police, for the crown, and for private citizens.
A Matter of Spirit: A Bartleby and James Adventure    by Michael Coorlim
Price: $2.99 USD. 9460 words. Published by PoMoCo Press  on April 9, 2012. Fiction.

Inventive steampunk genius James Wainwright has little use for the fancies of faith or Spiritualism. When he's hired to advocate for an old friend who claims that his medium was kidnapped by angry spirits, he is forced to put his skepticism aside for the sake of the investigation. Is this just another con-job, or is something more supernatural at work in Victorian London?
On The Trail of the Scissorman: A Bartleby and James Adventure    by Michael Coorlim
Price: $2.99 USD. 11520 words. Published by PoMoCo Press  on February 7, 2012. Fiction.

Consulting detectives Bartleby and James have reputations for solving difficult crimes with a combination of steamtech inginuity and deductive reasoning. When the police cannot catch a serial killer turning Victorian London's children into orphans, the brother of its latest victim turns to the duo for help.
Maiden Voyage of the Rio Grande: A Bartleby and James Adventure    by Michael Coorlim
Price: $2.99 USD. 8700 words. Published by PoMoCo Press  on January 29, 2012. Fiction.

Steampunk gadgeteer James Wainwright has been accused of a murder he did not commit, and only his savvy partner Alton Bartleby can clear his name. The clock is ticking, though, as the true murderer's sabotage threatens to crash the largest airship in the world onto the teaming streets of Victorian London below.
And They Called Her Spider: A Bartleby and James Adventure    by Michael Coorlim
Price: $2.99 USD. 8880 words. Published by PoMoCo Press  on December 22, 2011. Fiction.

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James was a socially awkward but brilliant inventor, while his partner Bartleby was a deductive genius and intuitive savant. Together the consulting detectives have been hired to scour steampunk London for the Spider, an impossible killer targeting only the most well-protected of targets. It's up to them to stop her before she can assassinate Queen Victoria at the pinnacle of her Platinum Jubilee.
Oh Human Child    by Michael Coorlim
Price: $2.99 USD. 7500 words. Published by PoMoCo Press  on December 10, 2011. Fiction.

When young teen Jacob's brother is kidnapped by the unseelie fae, he doesn't hesitate to set out to rescue him armed only with a baseball bat, some celtic knotwork, and his best friend Tylor. Together the pair must brave witches, trolls, and a faerie court to rescue the kidnapped boy, but Jacob isn't the sort to give up or give in easily in this modern fairy tale. 7000 word novelette.
Apocalypse Party    by Michael Coorlim
Price: $2.99 USD. 6010 words. Published by PoMoCo Press  on December 5, 2011. Fiction.

It’s the end of the world, and everybody’s invited. Elizabeth reluctantly joins her friends at a party celebrating mankind’s last hours, only to be shocked and appalled by their hedonistic response to the end of everything. She struggles to find peace with loss on an unimaginable scale.

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