#1 New York Times Bestselling Author & TV Producer
It’s Emmy time… that’s the glorious time of year when members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences get inundated with DVDs of all the best TV shows (sitcoms and dramas), MOWs and miniseries that have aired on network, cable, and pay cable in the last year. (Fellow scribe Paul Guyot lists on his … Read more
My friend Paul Quarrington, a wonderful novelist himself, reviews Isabel Allende’s Zorro in this weekend’s Globe and Mail. This is a book rife with coincidence, love at first sight, pirates, secret societies — hey, it’s a book where a guy can put on a mask, draw a little moustache on his face and fool people … Read more
I don’t what what it is, but Friday seems to be a big day for email. Here’s one I got today, which read, in part: Television series air and are eventually canceled. What happens to them? Obviously I wouldn’t be asking if I weren’t interested in a particular series. "Search," an adventure series that aired … Read more
Today I received this email, which I’m assuming is in response to my post "iUniverse By The Numbers." Is it bad writing that prevents a POD book from selling or many other factors? I challenge you: an established, tradional, successful writer to submit something you wrote to a POD and when it doesn’t sell will … Read more
I got this email today…then again, it seems like I get it every day: I have a great idea for a TV cop show but I’m not a writer. How can I sell it? I can’t remember if I’ve posted this before, but here goes anyway. This is a column I wrote several years ago … Read more
Today, I received this email: I would like to Email Mr. Wolf about an idea…If anyone knows his email address are a way I can get in contacted with please email me at StreetRacerBW@yahoo.com. Thank you, Victoria. My reply: If you’ve paid any attention to Dick Wolf’s shows, you’ll notice they all have one thing … Read more
I’m not the only one amused by Lori Prokop and her ridiculous BookMillionaire reality show scam. Other blogs are having fun with it, too. For example, Richard Cobbett took a look at the requirements to be one of the "contestants" on the informercial: You can apply if you meet any one of the following criteria: … Read more
I received a reply from the guy with the great idea for a TV show who needed someone with "industry credibility" to team up with. Feel the need to vent? No problem! Since we don’t each other, it can’t be personal. A simple, "not interested" would have done the trick though. The television saying you … Read more
Get-rich-quick huckster Lori Prokop is "saddened" that aspiring writers, whose desperation for publication makes them easy prey, aren’t falling for her transparent BookMillionare Reality Show scam. She writes: We are building both a television show, television viewing audience and online community to highlight the writing community. To see this slammed by members of the writing … Read more
Today I got two emails from two different people, both hoping for the same thing, that they could use me to achieve their dreams of success in Hollywood. This first email came in under the subject heading "I Have Some Great Screenplays!" (The names, addresses and phone numbers have been removed, otherwise the emails are … Read more