#1 New York Times Bestselling Author & TV Producer
I am not a reviewer. I am not a chiropractor. And yet I get mail like this…The typos, by the way, are his own. Subject: Book pn chiropractic Date: 9/17/2004 4:16:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: DrChot@aol.com I would appeciate a review of my book 2nd edition ,See www,drchot.com Will be happy to send a … Read more
As an on-going feature of my blog, I share some of the strange emails I get from complete strangers. Most of these strangers want to sell me their script, book, or TV show ideas…even though I’m not a network, studio, or publishing company… but a writer/producer with his own scripts, books and TV show ideas … Read more
I got an email today imploring me to write a SEAQUEST novel…. You should write Seaquest books because they will be HUGELY SUCESSFUL and that will bring back the series for TV or as a movie. They brought back Thunderbirds, why not SeaQuest, only without Darwin, because a talking fish is stupid. If you need … Read more
Complete strangers from all over the world are always sending me emails asking me to “buy” or “represent” their scripts. This makes no sense to me. I’m a TV writer, not an agent or studio exec. I’m trying to sell my own work, not get other people jobs. Here’s one of the latest queries…clearly a … Read more
This is a semi-regular feature where I share some of the, um, interesting mail I get. I received this note over the weekend…I have no idea what he’s talking about. Maybe you’d like to try answering the question for him. SeaQuest Episode Question What is the episode number or name of the fish guy? The … Read more
Because I am a “TV producer,” I get all kinds of weird solicitations… mostly people asking me to read their script, buy their script, or give their script to Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, or Martin Scorcese (like they hang out with the guy who wrote “She Wolf of London.”) The following letter is real, it … Read more
My brother Tod gets the most amusing hate mail from the strangest people: You’re perhaps the most unlikable, trivial, angry person I’ve ever read online. You would be an incredibly successful female middle-school student. Try inserting a few spurious capital letters and misspelling (more) words, and you could fit right in at MySpace. Your photograph … Read more
If you’ve enjoyed reading some of the idiotic mail I get, you ought to visit Query Letters I Love, a new blog filled with the letters a Hollywood exec has received from people trying to sell their inept screenplays. Here’s my favorite: “Ducks, the Killer Breed” tells the story of some harmless ducks that are … Read more
Jane Friedman, the former publisher of Writers Digest, walked a tight rope in her “Getting to Yes” article in Publishers Weekly‘s Booklife self-publishing advertising insert, which is stuffed with positive reviews that self-published authors have paid for. Her article says that authors marketing their work should start their campaign by making lists of “owned … Read more
It was two years ago this week that, at Joe Konrath's urging, I began my "Kindle Experiment" by making my out-of-print book THE WALK available as an ebook. I've sold close to 20,000 copies of THE WALK since then…and to celebrate, I am pricing the book at just 99 cents until June 7th. For … Read more