Sitemap - 2024 - To Live and Let Die
Before there was 'Dune', there were 'The Godmakers'
So you want to be a screenwriter - do you have what it takes?
Pierre Benoit's curious quest for Atlantis
The Transcontinental Railroad (includes exclusive chapter)
"The Star" - H. G. Wells puts a up a mirror for all of us to take a good look at ourselves
The California Gold Rush went viral because of Thomas O Larkin's 'gold letters'
Don't plot your story to death
Notes from Underground: Dostoevsky's take on the importance of the irrational
The Mountain Meadows massacre (includes exclusive chapter)
"Even A-list writers write crappy first drafts." No, they absolutely do not.
The life and death of William 'Lucky Bill' Thorington
The wrong feedback can drive a screenwriter insane
If you want to be a working screenwriter, it really helps if ...
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Without him, 'Animal House' would have never been
The path from screenplays to novels
The wondrous story of 'Funny Girl' Isobel Lennart
The Other Side: the strangest book you've never heard of
The Hoover Dam: Built into the heart of American Indian country
The Twilight Zone - enter if you dare
Blood Meridian: The beautifully written novel I'll never recommend to anyone
The magnificent Maltese Falcon - from novel to film(s)
Mysterious murder in Eldorado Canyon: Woman Killed with Shotgun
I love a bit of eldritch Lovecraft once in a while
How many hats are you wearing?
Know when to stop - another way to foil your writer's block worries
What if the lands we walked on could speak? What might they tell us?
About Bambi - not the Disney movie, but the Hitler-banned original novel
Match made in Hollywood heaven: Leigh Brackett and Howard Hawks
When Steven Soderbergh retired
Quintus Hopper of Nevada: the joys of research
Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon ... the greatest movie never made?
Nevada: The beautiful desert of buried hopes
"Write what you know" - what a crock!
Three ways to get a literary agent ... and a few thoughts on screenwriting competitions
Movie magic: Script annotations by Marlon Brando, John Wayne and others