Thoughts From A Screenwriter On Wrapping His First Movie

Doug Spak

Readers of this blog have met my friend, fellow author and screenwriter, Doug Spak. He contributed his first guest post here about writing a screenplay in 42 days.

Although I met Doug at the Algonkian Novel Workshop, Doug’s talents have detoured from novel-writing to screenplays. And, he is obviously good at screenwriting since his first screenplay, A Christmas Masterpiece was filmed this summer in Cincinnatti  for a Hallmark-style movie to be aired during the holiday season.

In today’s Guest Post, Doug describes the thrill of watching his screenplay brought to life: Continue reading “Thoughts From A Screenwriter On Wrapping His First Movie”

How To Survive Your Search For A Literary Agent

 

If you google the phrase “how to get literary agent,” you will find at least 20 Google pages of results. The accumulated information comes from writers’ websites, writers’ magazines, from bloggers, from literary agents themselves, from editors eager to polish up your manuscript before you submit to an agent and from authors — like myself — who have found an agent. Continue reading “How To Survive Your Search For A Literary Agent”

How I Got The Literary Agent I Really Wanted

Paula Munier with her Newfie retriever, Bear

I spent the better part of last week saying things like, “My agent said….”

“My agent thinks…”

“My agent is waiting for my revisions…”

That’s right. That means the deal is done. I have a literary agent. Continue reading “How I Got The Literary Agent I Really Wanted”

Why I Read Laura Lippman’s Lady In The Lake In One Sitting

If there is one magical sound that is unfortunately disappearing off the planet forever it is the rumble of presses churning out printed copies of the day’s news in the bowels of a newspaper office building.  Bestselling author, Laura Lippman took me back this week to that era before computers, before everything in newspapers was produced electronically, soundlessly and remotely — and when newspapers themselves were not threatened by extinction. Continue reading “Why I Read Laura Lippman’s Lady In The Lake In One Sitting”

Midsummer Dream — Or Nightmare?

We’re at the midpoint of the Summer. Only six more weeks. And then the crowds will be gone. For the moment they’re here. Continue reading “Midsummer Dream — Or Nightmare?”