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THE SWIFTS OF BRENSTON: I AM ELLIS SWIFT – PART 1 – BY GEORGE KAPLAN
I am Ellis Swift. “So what?”, I hear you say. It is true you have no reason to be interested in me, and you probably haven’t heard of me, but trust me I have a story to tell. Well, I say *a* story it...
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BEGUILING BOOKS WITH GEORGE KAPLAN
Booking A Show Adapting a book for the screen isn’t easy. No, really, don’t laugh at the obviousness of that statement! It isn’t. A screenwriter (okay, this is Hollywood we’re talking about…is there a...
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Secrets and Contradictions – by novelist David Corbett – NYTimes.com
E. M. Forster, in his 1927 book “Aspects of the Novel,” presented the concept of “round” versus “flat” characters. He generally preferred the former to the latter except when the purpose was to arouse...
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An Aid to Concentration | Read, Seen, Heard
An Aid to Concentration | Read, Seen, Heard. I want to highlight this fabulous gentleman (not the guy pictured above) and one of my favorite sites — visual puns, beauty, history — he’s got it all....
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Write what you know…and then grit your teeth and publish. With an older and...
Write what you know??? If that were true all you’d be hearing from me is, “Blah-blah-blah, perimenopause, blah-blah-blah, who didn’t close the refrigerator?, blah-blah-blah, that director is an...
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BEFORE E.L. JAMES – ELINOR GLYN, CREATOR OF THE “IT” GIRL AND SAUCY SEXUALITY...
1927 Elinor Glyn and Marion Davies She pioneered risqué and sometimes erotic romantic fiction aimed at a female readership which was radical for its time, though her writing would not be considered...
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THIS BEGUILING BOOK IS MINE…
Hello, Today I’m taking a short break as I’m discussing publishing a novel of mine with some charming people – I’ll fill you in if the chips fall my way – actually, I’ll fill you in either way. Over...
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YOOHOO! WHO TOLD ME TO READ THE DIRK BOGARDE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES?
Whoever you are I love you. This is a picture of Dirk Bogarde and Brigitte Bardot with (as my husband would say) unreasonably short hair. And, this is the most marvelous first paragraph (and a bit) of...
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