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Mike Way was born in Washington D.C.  Mike Way began his writing career in 1984 with the publication of his first freelance article in a national computer magazine. Since 1995 Mike Way has been a consultant for the nation’s largest consulting firm, Tek Systems, as a systems programmer for Fortune 500 organizations as well as "mom & pop" business operations. 

During that same period, Mike has continued to publish in many other venues including newsletters, magazines, and multiple Internet venues. In recognition for his entrepreneurial achievement, he received recognition by the editors of Success Magazine  in 1991.

Mike Way has traveled extensively speaking to various groups on the tenets of what it take to be successful as an entrepreneur. In 1989, Mr. Way founded The Mike Way Agency and Communications Group. The Agency’s mission was to bring professional marketing services to small and disenfranchised businesses. The goal was to offer the small struggling businessperson the means to secure a market share at a fraction the resources needed by mainstream competitors.

Mike Way began his professional computer programming career in 1979. In 1982, Mr. Way founded Creative Computer Specialists, a custom software house that designed, created, and implemented custom software for vertical markets. In 1983, Mike Way produced and sold nationally, his first commercial software package called Church Information Systems. Creative Computer Specialist and its latest version Congregational Information Systems, CIS2000plus,  is still thriving and selling today, as it is among the oldest and best software packages used by churches today.  

Other software titles produced by Creative Computer include:

American Video Services     171 Magic     The Paymaster’s Pen        Postal Power

In 2001 Mr. Way had an idea for an unusual Internet portal that allowed small and large businesses to compete for new business on a level playing field. After three years of intensive programming, the new portal, fizzlers.com was rolled out to the public in Annapolis Maryland. In 2004 after a years of testing, fizzlers.com began operations in all of Maryland, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia. Fizzlers is now recruiting business nationwide and project national operations to include the entire Western hemisphere by 2011.

Literary & Film Works Produced by Michael Way

The Success Trip

Way was asked to write an article on the motivational speaking craze. As the article neared completion, Mike Way informed his editors that the article had the ‘legs’ to become a book, and so began his first non-fiction volume titled, The Success Trip. Completed but never published, the book is now in re-write in preparation for publication as time allows.

Movies, The Reel Deal web-site

In the mid 80s,  Mr. Way began a newsletter of film reviews. It began as a hobby. Occasionally, he shared them with friends, than began to receive request from friends of friends.  The Reel Deal website was launched in the 1994 and was successfully syndicated in several Internet venues. Mike closed the website in 1999 when he decided to write movies rather than write about them.  A small sampling of Mr. Way's  film reviews can be access in an archive here. As of this date, Mike has written thirteen feature screenplays, two television pilots, and an existing series script, several of which are making the rounds in the Los Angeles entertainment community. Mr. Way is also working to produce his first independent films from one of his favorite scripts, Morning Prayer Over Chesapeake - A Love Story.  Principal photography began, but was stopped due to logistical snafus. 

The Decline and Fall Of The United States of America

The Decline and Fall of the United States Of America. Decline is a view of America in real decline. Decline dares to examine bits of disconnected information flagrant in society today, and connects them into a tapestry that proves that unless America takes a hard introspective look at herself,...  her best days are past.  

STD2104

STD2104  is a techno-thriller about a secret Pentagon project gone amok. It is a frightening view of high level bureaucracy and the government’s resistance to do anything about it. STD2104 is a story of humanity across time and how timeless virtue is. By the way, the STD in STD 2104 is an acronym for Space-Time Displacement.  And no, the 2104 has nothing to do with the year 2104

Cynthia’s Dream

Cynthia’s Dream began on a part-time basis as a darshan of a parable-like story Mike Way was attempting to tell his pre-adolescent nieces and nephews. Little did he know that Cynthia was to define the moral and ethical scope of both his literary and film career as described in the preface to Cynthia’s Dream. Cynthia’s Dream was self published in 2004. more...

For Posterity’s Sake

This story was originally ‘hand written’ when Mike was a teenager just before college For Posterity’s Sake. Posterity is a contemporary science fiction volume that explores in a dynamic and peculiar fashion, the question: “what if we are not alone in the universe.” Posterity was later rewritten into a feature screenplay. It is the author’s intent to make For Posterity’s Sake his own feature executive producer's debut at some time in the future and as such, will not be submitted for consideration in the Los Angeles entertainment venues.

Morning Prayer Over Chesapeake – A Love Story

Morning is an original screenplay that examines why we choose the people we choose to marry. It’s an exciting tale of choices, consequences, and ultimate victory for love itself.

Sentient

If one thought Y2K was a big deal, one wouldn’t believe the world of Sentient. Sentient is a techno thriller of a screenplay about a new computer chip that becomes self-aware. At first things are great but suddenly the master computer must make a decision between what’s good for it, and what’s good for its creators... mankind. The battle between the soul of man and the soul of the machine is incredible, frightening and exhilarating. Sentient forces one to ask, “how much and how far should we allow ourselves to swallowed up by technology?” (Sentient is being seriously consider by a Hollywood producer.)

The Hunter as the Hunted

Another original screenplay about a submarine captain, the hunter who suddenly finds himself hunted. It’s a story that forces the examination of one’s own values against the backdrop of the ‘system’ and forces personal morality to take issue with what one’s country perceives is right vs. wrong. This story could also be called: “the ethical vs. the legal”

Federalies

Federalies is a pilot for a television dramatic series.  It examines the criminal justice system from the point-of-view of the judges and district attorneys who must judge and prosecute the accused.  Federalies takes a stark view into the world of crime, intimidation, justice, and the ultimate moral dilemma, “what if?”

Other Works in Various Stages of Completion