by Melinda Snodgrass | May 25, 2025 | Blog
On this day in 1977 Star Wars was released in the theaters. I was taking the Bar review course, studying 16 hours a day, my dad was in his final illness and the stress was about to kill me. I had heard about this movie so my dear friend Victor Milan and I decided to go on opening day. Well, there were so many people all the showing had sold out so the theater added a midnight showing and Vic and I sat in this line outside the theater for hours while we waited for that midnight show. There was...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 8, 2024 | Blog
Hi folks. There was an error on the spine of the print version of TO REIGN IN HEAVEN. Instead of being Book IV, it had been put out as Book VI. The layout artist corrected that and I have uploaded the new cover to all the various platforms, but it might take a few days for that fourth and final book in the Carolingian series to be available again. Apologies for the mess up, but any of you who bought a print copy have a collectors item 🤪.
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 17, 2024 | The Craft of Writing, TV & Movies
This post was generated after watching the finale of The Acolyte, so if you haven’t see it yet there are going to be SPOILERS, so stop reading now. <<<<<<<SPOILERS<<<<<<<<<SPOILERS>>>>>>SPOILERS>>>>>> Overall I liked The Acolyte quite a lot. I like the fact it wasn’t written by all one person. I thought the cast was terrific, particularly Lee Jung Jae as the Jedi Master Sol. There was very...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 22, 2024 | About Writing, The Craft of Writing
As a reader I’ve tended to prefer science fiction to fantasy, with a few exceptions. The Lord of the Rings is one of my favorite books and I go to Middle Earth whenever life feels too stressful. But about a year ago I had this idea pop into my head and I can’t shake it. So now that my space opera, Imperials, is finished, and the Carolingian series about the war between science and rationality and superstition, religion and magic is also finished. (Those books will be going live in the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 17, 2024 | Blog
It will come as no surprise to anyone that I’m a Star Wars fan. Which means I tune into every new Disney Star Wars show hoping the next one will be as good as Andor. Sadly, none of them are, and I feel like one of the reasons is a lack of writer diversity as in — have a writers room so you can have other writers push back and question choices and decisions. The most recent glaring and annoying choice was in the finale of The Bad Batch where our heroes return to a planet where they...
