by Melinda Snodgrass | Mar 6, 2016 | About Writing
Money flows to the writer. Not from the writer. That’s the rule. Remember it. Tattoo it on the back of your eyelids. Nothing makes me angrier then when I hear about an aspiring writer who had paid someone a lot of money to read their manuscript and comment. These so called “writing coaches” are preying on the hopes and dreams of people who want to write and it’s disgusting. They have no power to put your manuscript in front of an agent or an editor. They...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Feb 4, 2016 | TV & Movies
Tuesday night George and I were having a long conversation via text. (Yes, Mr. Wordstar is a texting monster. He’s the reason I had to go with unlimited texting.) Truthfully we should have just picked up the phone and talked, but oh well. Anyway, GRRM wanted to know if I had watched the latest episode of The Flash yet. I hadn’t because of the time difference between L.A. and Santa Fe, but we ended up talking about how the Star Labs Scooby gang keep locking people up in the basement in...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Feb 1, 2016 | TV & Movies
After writing for most of yesterday and staying warm while the rain and wind battered the house I decided to spend the evening on a movie binge. Guardians of the Galaxy was on followed by Avengers — Ultron. Boy is Guardians a _much_ better movie than Ultron. There was a seed of a good movie in among all the endless and often pointless action sequences in Ultron, but it gasped and died under the weight of the CGI action. I noticed something else. When Whedon thinks something is going...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 29, 2016 | About Writing
I’m tiptoeing up on the final chapter of the next novel in the Imperials series. Usually approaching the end of a novel feels like a toboggan ride, but this one has me groping my way toward the conclusion. I think it’s a combination of things. I can see the final scenes and how to present them if this were a movie where the camera itself can be a point of view but because this is a novel I have to present it through the eyes of one of the two view point characters. In this case...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 13, 2016 | Newsflash
Folks may or may not know that Random House Audio is doing our Wild Cards books and has made the very exciting decision to hire different actors for the various characters instead of one reader for the entire book. The line up for JOKER’S WILD is as follows: Prentice Onayemi, reading Fortunato, Pam Grier, reading Roulette, Molly Quinn, reading Wraith, Ray Porter, reading Sewer Jack, Felicia Day, reading Bagabond, Stephen McHattie, reading Demise, Ron Donachie, reading Hiram Worchester....
