This is a SHELF LIFE entry with a difference, so I hope you’ll indulge me. Karen Laubenstein is someone I’ve known for a number of years now. She’s a writer and a great champion of writers. She headed the committee that staged […]
A couple of weeks ago I was challenged by a couple of chums to name ten books that have stayed with me ever since reading them. For me, this is somewhat of an easy task to name nine of them, but there […]
This bit is an update of an interview I did with Scott Nicholson a couple of years ago, but has some renewed relevance. I remember when Marc Anthony exploded onto the music scene a few years ago. He described himself […]
I came across an interesting article about Ridley Scott’s movie THE COUNSELOR and why it did so poorly at the box office. It tossed out a number of factors but it lumped most of the reasoning on the fact that Americans don’t […]
People ask me what scares me, what my deepest fears are, and what sends me into a panic. Austin Powers says he fears only two things: nuclear weapons and carnies. I’m different. Pretty much everything frightens me. I think people are usually […]
Lately I’ve been commended on the level of sex in my books—namely that I keep it clean. So clean in fact, that NO SHOW on a couple of occasions has been tagged as Christian fiction by some Christian reading groups. This label […]
Writer, Draven Ames has been asking writers about their biggest aha moments in their careers. My biggest writing revelation was about the hidden agendas in my books. The agendas were so hidden, I didn’t even see them until they were pointed out […]
I’m a big Bob Newhart fan, but I’m old school fan. Most people will know him from his sitcoms, but I first discovered him through his nightclub and comedy club recordings. He was known for doing one-sided conversations usually via a phone […]
I’m after your opinions on crowd funding/sourcing. If you’re not sure what that is, it where people donate money to someone’s project which could go towards a product, service or some other goal. It’s become very popular with writers and filmmakers, especially […]
I’m rounding out my features on NO SHOW today, I’m sure you’ve heard enough about the book, so I thought I’d make it a fun one. I guess we think of ourselves as worldly—and why not. The world is at our fingertips. Things […]