When you sit down in a the­ater with your $20 pop­corn and your cup of 32 ounce soda (a cup they won’t let you pee into, might I add), you know you’re ready for an expe­ri­ence. You’ll see a film and you know there will be some spe­cial effects, some funny dia­logue, some decent act­ing. But do you really know what’s going on and how all of that ( Read more... )

I had an inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tion on the phone about a half an hour ago, and as these things hap­pen, con­ver­sa­tion had turned to me (YAY) and the per­son said [para­phrase], “I was given your web­site and at first I thought I had the wrong page.”

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New Orleans is one of those fabled towns peo­ple talk about vis­it­ing. It has its own his­tory sep­a­rate from other cities, and a magic that thrums through­out the streets day or night. I finally got a chance to visit that city (and I’ll be able to write it off as a busi­ness expense!) dur­ing the mid­dle of Jan­u­ary and I can’t wait to go back ( Read more... )

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I know, I know…

I have been chasing the title for this movie for a few months now and over the weekend finally settled on one that has no choice but to stick. People ask why I didn’t just stick with the original title of the story “I Do This Because I Love You” and I would have liked to but it’s long, like way long for a movie title.  I think of ( Read more... )

I did not for­get to do this sev­eral weeks ago. I just neglected to remem­ber in a timely fash­ion.  Please find below your Cast and Crew:

Oryan Landa - Guy

Lara Shah - Judy*

Steven Mitchell - Ben

Peggy Schott  - Eliz­a­beth

Andrew Moher - Todd

Samuel French - Joe

Dan Nel­son - Phil

Kathi McAdoo - Auntie

(Let the aca­d­e­mic char­ac­ter nit- ( Read more... )

Back in 2005, I was a unpub­lished writer scour­ing list­ings for places to sub­mit. I’d been actively sub­mit­ting my short sto­ries to all sorts of mar­kets, mostly mag­a­zines I knew or had heard good things about. In a des­per­ate reach I punched into Google “hor­ror sub­mis­sions short story“and lo and behold saw a call for sub­mis­sions to a ( Read more... )