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 | 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 8, 2013 | Blog
“An Olympic boycott might not be the best way to go. Instead, let’s turn the Winter Games into the gayest games in history. Let the Russian police, if they want, arrest every athlete, every coach from Europe, North American, Australia and other forward-looking countries — that includes you, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. The teams should march during the opening ceremonies brandishing rainbow flags, holding hands, proclaiming that every one of them supports equal rights...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 1, 2013 | Blog
I’m fortunate to be in a couple of upcoming anthologies out this year. DANGEROUS WOMEN will be released December 3rd. I don’t have a date on OLD MARS yet, but I’ll let folks know. My story in Dangerous Women is set in my space opera universe. The Old Mars story is a stand alone and very Bradburyesque which is odd considering my love of Burroughs. I do love the characters so much that I may have do more with them. In fact, I’ll probably read that story at...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 20, 2013 | Blog
Thought I’d just post a little update about what’s happening. I learned yesterday that a comic book proposal was selected to become a graphic novel. I’m really jazzed. Writing for comics is like doing a screenplay, but without the budgetary limitations. More on the actual comic as more details are locked down. I’m working on a novelette set in the universe of my urban fantasy series. It’s going to be fun — a raid on fairyland or the Fey, and it will tie...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 10, 2013 | Blog
I’m a bit bemused by the uproar over Prism and the NSA, etc. etc. From the moment I joined Genie, back in the dark ages of the internet, I never thought my information would be private. We are shouting into the ether, sending digital messages in electronic bottles that can be swept up by any passing ship. Additionally, in a conversation with my friend, Sage Walker, she made the really brilliant observation that “privacy” was a concept that probably only existed for a brief...
