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I got this email the other day: Hi Lee I am contacting you in the hope that you could pass on a story idea to the producers of Monk. My idea for a monk episode would be to have Mr. Monk meet Near from the comic book Death Note. Here is his charecter information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Death_Note_characters#Near.2FNate_River
I got this email today from an aspiring screenwriter. I’ve removed the names: My name is X. I am a writer. Producer Z has been corresponding with me via email concerning one of my screenplays. He asked me to email to him the first 10 pages of my script. Before sending it I Googled him … Read more
I’ve received a limited number of review copies of MR. MONK AND THE TWO ASSISTANTS (July 2007) and DIAGNOSIS MURDER: THE LAST WORD (May 2007). If you’re an established reviewer and would be interested in receiving copies one or both books, please send me an email as soon as possible at Lee@leegoldberg.com with the name … Read more
Mark Baker, a frequent visitor here and an Amazon top reviewers, has given his eOpinion on DIAGNOSIS MURDER: THE LAST WORD, the final book in the series. He says, in part: About a quarter of the way into it, I was getting bored and wondering where it was going. Then things really took off and … Read more
I am getting lots of hits today from people looking for information about the vanity press Tate Publishing. Here’s what I wrote about the company last year, when I got the following email from someone… My daughter (14 years old) recently submitted (through her school) a children’s book that she wrote. Surprisingly, she received … Read more
I got a long email the other day. It turns out it’s from the same blogger who thinks I’m a sad little man who longs to write fanfiction. She writes, in part: I am a fanfiction writer, a slash fanfiction writer at that, I am not as illustrious or ambitious or zealous as some but … Read more
For a guy who says he doesn’t want people to know that Stephen King is his Dad, Joe Hill is making sure everybody knows it. From Publisher’s Weekly to yesterdays Los Angeles Times, he seems to be coming out everywhere as King’s s0n to promote his new book "Heart-Shaped Box." Publisher’s Weekly wrote: Joe Hill, … Read more
It’s been eight months since I last wrote about Lori Prokop (best known for her Book Millionaire debacle) and I often wonder what she’s up to these days (surprisingly, she’s finally gotten around to excising me from her spam mailing list). Maybe while I am away, this post from March 2006 will inspire someone to … Read more
I got this email a couple of weeks ago and My brother Tod got one very much like it from the same guy: Take your slanders about me off your blog now, Goldberg. You thought it was cool and you could destroy someone with your filth. Take it off, I beg you. I don’t really … Read more
I received this email from Phillip R. Dolan, who got the rights to his manuscript and his money back from PublishAmerica. Rather than paraphrase his email, I am reposting it in its entirety: Some scam publishers can be stopped. Publish America’s contract has an arbitration clause to prevent authors from suing them. To me, it … Read more