by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 29, 2024 | About Writing
Yes, that is meant somewhat ironically because this is a long and tedious process. First you have to have the team who are able to prepare the covers properly, do all the interior layout and then someone to prepare the manuscript for all these different places. Thank the gods I have Jeffe Kennedy and her extraordinary team to assist me and Jeffe to teach me. The one really big wrinkle in all of this has been Bowker that sells ISBN numbers. Note that in Canada they are provided to authors for...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 26, 2024 | About Writing
I do outline my novels. Not in the same detail that I would outline a script, but it’s important to me to know the major beats ie the tent pole scenes that will carry me to the various act outs, but there are a few limited time where I let the flow of the story and the actions of the characters show me the way. It’s one of the reasons I can’t jump around when I write. I have to experience the events of the story along with the characters in a very linear fashion. I spent the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 30, 2023 | Blog
So here is a story. My aunt and uncle on my dad’s side had two Siamese cats — Tasha and Andy. And when I was a baby my mom (my dad was in Washington D.C. testifying to a congressional committee about organized crime in Los Angeles more on that another time) was staying with Judy and Ernie. Now, they were young and staying home with a baby so my aunt and uncle and my mom would put Tasha in my crib and tell her to “watch the baby” while they went off dancing for a couple...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 19, 2023 | Blog
There has been an outcry from fans over the ending of Loki season 2, because he didn’t get to live happily ever after with Sylvie, but I think it was perfection. And now I’m going to tell you why. AHOY, THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!! I fell in love with the character way back with the first THOR film. Partly because he’s a tremendously complicated character and also because of Tom Hiddleston’s portrayal. He is probably one of the finest actors of his generation (and many...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 21, 2023 | Blog
via GIPHY I had a friend visiting who had never seen ALIENS, so we popped in the disc to watch it last night. What I hadn’t realized is that Carl and I had purchased the Special Edition. Which meant it had added back in deleted scenes and dialogue that had been cut from the theatrical release. And oh my dear gods and little fishes, they should never have done that. There was a reason those scenes were cut and some dialogue trimmed. I’m going to do a SPOILER WARNING! SPOILER WARNING!...
