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 | 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...
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!...
