#1 New York Times Bestselling Author & TV Producer
Remember Lori Prokop, the shameless get-rich-quick huckster behind the BOOK MILLIONAIRE debacle? Well, she’s baaaack with an all-new schtick (gee, Lori, whatever happened to "Book Millionaire?") Now she’s pitching a series of seminars and books called "How to Launch from Good To Great." I was being interviewed as an expert for a book on success. … Read more
I came up with my story for Bob Randisi’s new anthology at the oddest time and the oddest place. I was getting a haircut, tuning out the incessant yammering of the lady cutting my hair, when all the pieces that had been swirling around in my head finally clicked together — my experience in traffic … Read more
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