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Michael Hoeye is a children's writer. He is the author of the Hermux Tantamoq Adventures, a series of children's mystery novels about a watchmaker mouse.
Hoeye first came to Oregon in 1970 to homestead a piece of property in the Coastal Range. He stayed for five years. Then he moved to New York where he found out that city life can be even harder than homesteading. While he was in New York he worked as a textile designer, a stagehand at Studio 54, a fashion photographer, an agent, and a therapist. He did graduate work in psychiatry and religion at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. Then he returned to Oregon to marry his longtime sweetheart, Martha Banyas. They live happily in a stone cottage in Oak Grove.
Michael taught Management of Creativity for a number of years in the M.B.A. program at Marylhurst University. Time Stops for No Mouse was his first book. He has since written three more books in the Hermux Tantamoq Series.
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One beautiful Saturday morning in the summer of 1997 my wife and I decided to
go out for breakfast at Café Lena on Hawthorne Boulevard in our hometown of
Portland, Oregon. On our way walking there we stopped at a garage sale and found
an old game similar to Scrabble.
You pick a set of letter pieces at random and then see what words you can make
from them.
When we got to the restaurant we made up a game to play while we
drank coffee and waited for our food. The game went like this. After you got
your letters, you had one minute to make up the name of an imaginary character
and say something about who they were and what they did. I drew the letters that
formed the name Hermux Tantamoq. And I immediately saw him as an ordinary, but
likable, city mouse who was a watchmaker.
A week later I started writing about
Hermux. And started getting a better feeling for who he is and the world he
inhabits. I started accumulating bigger and bigger story fragments about him. On
a weekend at the Oregon coast, I sat and watched the stormy ocean and wrote
about him making a train trip to a small beach town. On a trip to Turkey that
year I wrote about his arduous training at the Imperial School of Watchmaking in
Istanbul. I ...
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