Mike Sims(XI)

Since his teenage years, Mike Sims has been the ultimate story-teller, creating written works of art of all types. He has built a following on social media entertaining people with his never-ending and unique brand of humor. Working tirelessly behind the scenes writing jokes for morning radio personalities to professional comedians. His work has caught the attention of Hollywood producers and marketing professionals across various industries from commercials to infomercials and everything in between. His passion for storytelling has led him to publish his work and bringing what he hopes is helpful and entertaining literature to the world. His journey began in Alamogordo, New Mexico as the youngest of five children from JD and Marie Sims. His dad worked as a construction contractor and Baptist preacher. JD built homes and buildings including some for the White Sands Missile Base nearby. At the age of five Mike moved with his parents to Jonestown, Texas near Austin. He attended school at Leander and eventually soon after Lago Vista as they moved there. Lago became a large playground for Mike as it had country clubs, public pools, golf courses and a lake to fish. His dad built the Travis Oaks Baptist church in Lago and commuted back and forth from Lago to Houston. JD built homes mostly but also built eighteen Baptist churches in the Houston area.

He started writing short stories and putting his imagination to paper as a teenager. Also during this time his dad developed ALS, a crippling disease that slowly atrophies the muscles. JD sold their home in Lago when Mike was fifteen and moved them to New Caney where he managed to build a debt free home for Mike's mother and Mike. This was done in large part due to help of Mike's brothers and their friends. Shortly after moving in JD passed away accomplishing his last goal to secure a home for them near the rest of the family.

He met Melinda Svetlik and they were married in 1997. They have one daughter and shortly after her birth Mike started working at a small electronics manufacturer as the IT manager. Mike shared short stories on blogs for years yet ignored the advice of family and friends that he needed to publish them. Feeling they were just being nice in 2003 he finally submitted a short story he wrote to a friendly writing contest among thousands of entries. To his surprise he won fourth place and realized he did have something to contribute.

After starting his job at the electronics company in 2005 he came up with an idea for a short story to add to his collection he had written over years. He wrote about a woman named Vickie that revenged herself on a man that tried to rape her. It was meant to be a dark comedy how she revenged herself upon this man but as he wrote the story it turned dramatic. It became obvious this story was too big to be a short story. However, he had never wrote a novel before and had no idea what to do. The story remained dormant till 2012 when things changed in Mike's life. During the adjustment to all the changes his story of Vickie came to him and the whole novel became apparent. He now knew how to write this book. Working on it for two years with the help of his wife, friend Nicole and others several drafts developed. Nicole suggested this story would make a great TV series and began to evangelize it towards those ends. In the meantime, Mike worked on getting it published as book. Having very little resources to polish and edit the book and having no luck finding a literary agent, he decided to self-publish on Amazon. Feeling the book was not going to go anywhere after months he was finally contacted by a publisher. The publisher wanted the book and stated they felt it was going to be big. Mike was signed with them and shortly later they published his book with a whole new look and polished text. After people began to read his book Vic/Tim they asked; how did this Vickie character come to be as she is? He realized that Vickie's story was too big to be in one novel. It then came to him four more stories to make it a series, three prequels to Vic/Tim and one final sequel. He started work on Vickie the first book in the series that shows Vickie's start written in one month. The next book Valkyrie followed. Mike is writing the next book Violet to follow as well as working on expanding a number of his short stories into novels.

His novels have been translated into various languages and produced into audio books. His audio books are narrated into Spanish by the actress Leni Rico

Team Vickie is working to make this project happen is also Barney Cohen, Leni Rico and Nicole Andani. The character Vickie is also mentioned in the book Southern Cross Audiobook (2018) being pitched for the screen as Southern Cross.