It was 1991. If memory serves correctly, it was March of that year when my husband, Joe and I won $28,000 in one night of playing blackjack at the Mirage in Las Vegas. I had just started writing my first novel, Scandal because “isn’t that what you’ve always dreamed about doing?” my husband had asked pointedly as I rattled around our new Boca Raton mansion. It was the first time in my journalistic career I was without a regular staff writing job, having quit my associate editor position with TV Guide to move with my husband and son, Danny to Boca. Continue reading “The Year I Earned More Money From Gambling — Not Writing”
Month: October 2017
How To Get You (And Your Novel) Into The Headlines
In all the chatter among self and traditionally published authors about how to get your novel noticed by the book-reading public, one method has gotten short shrift lately. I’m talking about getting some media attention as in getting your novel into a headline in a newspaper or magazine, or even a short feature on TV News. Continue reading “How To Get You (And Your Novel) Into The Headlines”
How To Write A Screenplay In 42 Days : One Author’s Story
One of the best things that can happen to a writer is to have a novel or screenplay made into a movie or TV series. The next best thing –almost– is to hear your dialog (over which you laughed, cried, agonized, tore your hair out) performed by real-life actors. The latter is what happened recently to Doug , one of the writers I met at the Algonkian Author-Mentor workshop earlier this year. Here, in the very first guest post on my website, Doug Spak, who freelances as an advertising copywriter, writes about his experience: Continue reading “How To Write A Screenplay In 42 Days : One Author’s Story”
‘Someone Opened A Window Into Hell’ –TV Talk Show Hosts Battle Guns
“It seems like someone has opened a window into hell.” That’s how Jimmy Kimmel described it on his show this week. And there was no punch line. Continue reading “‘Someone Opened A Window Into Hell’ –TV Talk Show Hosts Battle Guns”