It’s time for some more homophones! If you don’t now what homophone is, it’s a word that is pronounced the same way as another word with a different meaning, such carat and carrot. What I’m doing isn’t quite like that but similar. […]
Importance is always variable. “If I write a novel, I’m a god. If I write a screenplay, I’m a minor deity.” ~ Donald Westlake
For the want of a better phrase, I’m in the entertainment industry, no different from singers, filmmakers and sporting franchises. It’s a high profile but fickle industry. One day it’s all great, the next it’s in the toilet. Take a look at […]
Just in case you were thinking of getting rowdy. “Word hard, keep your mouth shut and always answer your mail.”~Thomas J. Pendergast
I caught an interview with Rob Reiner and his editor Robert Leighton at the American Film Institute on TV the other week. They discussed their work before being opening it up to questions from the audience which consisted of film students of […]
Plagiarism is nothing new to me, sadly. My work has been plagiarized several times. Never my fiction, always my nonfiction. The first time was a few years ago. I’d given a presentation to a Sisters in Crime chapter. Twenty-four hours later the […]
But do your problems know this???“I am more important than my problems.”~José Ferrer
I am happy to unveil the final cover art for THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY. I hope you like it. The back jacket blurb goes a little like this. “Graduate students Zoë and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on […]
I am one of those people who sets a resolution or two every year. I like to give myself a challenge. I may not always succeed or I may give something a whirl that I don’t actually like once I’ve tried it […]