by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 6, 2015 | Blog
So here is my saga. On Monday morning the bank that issued my credit card realizes I have been hacked and they contact me. They cancel the card for my business and send me a new card Federal Express. Once I have the new card I call Direct TV and AT&T where I have auto pay because of my travel schedule. They put in the new card number. Done. I go on XBox Live and Amazon and the app store and do the same. This morning I call Century Link. I sit on hold for ten or fifteen minutes. A...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 4, 2015 | Blog
Last night I was wired after the event at the Cocteau Theater where we launched Victor Milan’s new novel, The Dinosaur Lords so I stayed up way to late reading. What kept me up until 2:00 a.m.? Another great book by my friend Max Gladstone. Last First Snow is the fourth book in his amazing Craft series. They are fantasy, but fantasy with an urban setting and ethnic and cultural diversity that is refreshing. For me their real strength is Max’s ability to take law and business,...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 3, 2015 | Blog
I did a fun podcast yesterday with the folks in Minneapolis who are part of that great Convergence community. Anyway, here’s the link. Ka1iban and Mikanhana asked great questions and we had a lot of fun. Just Enough Trope
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 31, 2015 | The Craft of Writing
Since I have a computer in L.A. I don’t travel between Santa Fe and Westlake with a computer. I figure I can read and listen to music during travel times. But on this trip home I had figured out the next scene and I badly wanted to get it down. So I fell back on a technique I haven’t used in decades. I took a notebook with me and wrote it out in longhand. When I first started writing I did everything by hand and then transcribed it on the typewriter. It takes double the time...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 24, 2015 | TV & Movies
I’m just back from seeing ANT MAN with my friends Len Wein and Christine Valada. I really liked it. It’s a slight film, but it has heart and humor and thank god we weren’t threatening New York, or the Earth or the Galaxy or the whole damn Universe (Thor: The Dark World). We were also watching it at the sybaritic Cinepolis theater with the full bar and meals and four kinds of popcorn (caramel corn — yum) and reclining leather seats with foot rests, etc. etc. Paul...
