by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 24, 2026 | Blog
I went and saw Nolan’s Odyssey on Wednesday, and I can’t stop thinking about the film. It was visually stunning, the music by Göransson which harkened back to the music of the period and used recreated Greek instruments allowed me to slip the bonds of present day and live in a allegory. I haven’t read The Odyssey since high school and it as I recall it read like a fantasy story for me. I didn’t see the deeper meaning. So to see this film as a meditation on the fall of a civilization — the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 8, 2025 | Blog
So much to process after this whirlwind trip to Las Vegas to attend the STLV: Trek to Vegas convention. Given my ambivalence about Trek I have never attended one of these conventions apart from one time while I was working on Next Generation, and I found it far too commercial and coming from the tradition of science fiction conventions I found it abusive to the fans. But contact with the team from the Treksperts overcame my reluctance, and things have really changed. It’s a whole new vibe and...
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...
