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The media relations committee at the WGA must be giddy — the LA Times is giving screenwriters a lot of attention lately. For example, today they did a short profile of Robin Swicord, discussing how she went about adapting MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA. It sounds like it was an unusual process: "I had to go … Read more
I got this email today: Lee, 11-2-05 I have a ‘must’ write book for you of my life.I am going through CONSTANT TERRORISM with the following: Burglary of my home, office, apartment, storage units. ID theft of my personal identity, business- hostile take over. I think I know the people doing this. I … Read more
I got this email over the weekend: I have a GREAT idea for a movie. Yup that’s just about it. Brilliant idea, concept for a movie, the characters and interaction the hook, great suspenseful WOW outcome.Now what? How can I proceed to make some money with this idea. I’m not in the business, not a … Read more
I got this email today: My wife and I have been huge Dick Van Dyke fans since the early 1960’s. Would you please consider forwarding this email to Mr. Van Dyke, since it concerns a portrait of him that I recently completed. I’m hoping to persuade him to sign one of my prints for my … Read more
A self-published author sent me a generic email asking me to read his book and blurb it. I’ve taken out his name, and the title of the book, as a courtesy: I am about to launch the XYZ novels, which are legal/crime thrillers. I would love to get a blurb from you for the first … Read more
I was trading emails with my agent yesterday when it occurred to me that I have a lot of books coming out in the next 12 months. Here’s what’s coming… August 2005 – DIAGNOSIS MURDER: THE PAST TENSENovember 2005 – THE MAN WITH THE IRON-ON BADGEJanuary 2006 – MR. MONK GOES TO THE FIREHOUSEFebruary 2006 … Read more
I had this email exchange today. This exchange is verbatim, I haven’t corrected or changed any of the spellings, grammar, etc: Dear Mr Goldberg I was wondering since you published a few books do you know any good traditional publsihing companies? I translated my father’s book and I am looking for a publsihing company. Please … Read more
I’m in that exciting, anxious, slightly-nerve-rattling, stage of writing a book…the research. I have a pretty good idea where my story is going, and who the characters are, and now I have to fill in the details… of character, of place, of clues, etc. So I hit the Internet in a big way, researching hundreds … Read more
I got this unsolicited email today: Get Bookstore Orders for your Books!! Would you like to get your book on the shelves in bookstores nationally? Visit www.WritersUniverse.net today!! Writer’s Universe meets monthly with book buyers as well as representatives from major libraries across the country — We will get you book orders! Book Store and … Read more
I get a half-a-dozen emails like this a week (the typos are his own): Good day Sir., I don’t know if this is the right medium for this, but I am trying to submit a Television series idea to see a posibility of it being shot. The series story is one which has affected millions … Read more