by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 15, 2013 | Blog
I know, I know. I’ve been a real stranger at my own blog. Blame it on the surgery and trying to work while recovering from said surgery. If I’m going to write it ought to be on a book that is due February first and a proposal for a new space opera series. I’ve also got a graphic novel to write, but that has to wait a bit. Certainly until the artist has been hired. I want to work closely with the artist while I’m writing the book. What have I been up to other than...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 7, 2013 | Blog
I’ve been gulping down the first season of PERSON OF INTEREST. I discovered the show over the summer between seasons one and two, got hooked and watched all of season two. Then I had to go back and see how it all started. How did Harold and Mr. Reese become partners? How did they start to construct their Scooby Gang? What is it with The Machine? I had expected the usual straightforward Hollywood approach, but no, this show is so clever and so brilliant. Warning: There Will Be...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 20, 2013 | TV & Movies
Okay, I said I would try to organize my thoughts, and explain why I found Forbidden Planet to be less then thrilling when I saw it again at the grand opening of George R.R.’s wonderful, refurbished Jean Cocteau. Let me start by saying that I don’t think the nineteen-fifties overall were a golden age for film. In some ways it felt like a lot of the movies — Doris Day, Rock Hudson, I’m looking at you — were designed to convince women that they really didn’t want to be Rosie the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 20, 2013 | Blog
I’ve been following the outrage over A-Rod’s use of performance enhancing drugs, and I still don’t get it. They keep saying that the records are “tainted”, and this is not a true test of athletic prowess. There is this sense that The Babe didn’t need no stinkin’ drugs. But time passes and technologies improve. Modern players had the benefit of vaccines and vitamins and a vastly better level of nutrition then players in the past. Are those advantages also considered to have “tainted” the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 14, 2013 | The Craft of Writing
So Library Journal has weighed in with a very nice review of BOX OFFICE POISON. I am baffled by the reaction to these Linnet Ellery books. Is it just because I broke the urban fantasy trope by having the supernaturals be in positions of real power and authority instead of hiding in the shadows? Because I had my protagonist be a professional woman who doesn’t have a stiletto up her sleeve? I have joked to my editor and my agent that when we reissue the Edge books I ought to have them put...
