EJ Ruek’s The Grimace and The Giggle

Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth
Watched this a couple of nights ago, and this is a great movie.  5 stars on Netflix from me. Superb.

Also,
Things We Lost in the Fire
was exceptional: excellent story, superior acting all the way around, brilliantly shot with superb lighting.

Here’s an interesting video documentary on YouTube about Rutgers new writing program called Writers House
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpq1yZOrtYA - “Documentary about the launching of Writers House, a learning community that is part of the Rutgers English Department“

Well, it’s official.  I know without a doubt which novel will sell first.
 
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 MEANWHILE, here’s a book that looks interesting that’s due on shelves April 15th, 2008
The Atlantis Prophecy

An author friend of mine asked me how it is that I can work on several books at once.  He suggested that, perhaps, I must surgically trisect my brain.  Well, no.  I just have (at the moment) three muses, one per active project.  And each one dictates what we’re going to do to their work [...]

One of the nice things about novel writing is that, when I have a good, solid draft or book outline/synopsis, getting a work into publishable form is a lot easier for me than it is, say, for someone who’s trying to “slam a home-run” from the get go.  I have all sorts of luxury to bend, fold, spindle, mutilate, warp, [...]

I don’t know why, but writers post up their manuscripts, asking other writers for their honest opinions.  But, when other writers give that honest opinion, out comes the angst, the anger, and the tears.  You would think that, by the time a writer has their five million words…or even two million words written, they would [...]

People discover I write, and that I do it full time. Instantly, they start dragging out their personal histories, hoping, even begging me to write it as a family saga or “the life and times of….”
“Ah, I write fiction, not memoirs or biographies,” I tell them.
They nod their heads, eager for me to snap up [...]

THE NEW TOSHIBA LAPTOP COMPUTER: Ah…well…working fine — phenomenally, even.  Hey, it’s a Toshiba, a company whose laptop computers are the very best in my opinion.  However, installing my favorite programs is a bit of a slow process as always, and Word 2007, which came pre-installed, makes me nervous until I try it for awhile.  [...]

FINAL UPDATE TO THIS POST: Have new computer WITH Vista and, you know what?  Vista is pretty darn cool.  XP took 2 weeks to tame, but I’ve about got this configured the way I want it in just a few hours.  So far so good.
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UPDATE: I’m still checking email about twice a day.  [...]

WELL, IT’S TRUE.  I fell out of bed, and I’ve been beating myself up over it.  The dark contemporary I had in the process of finalizing kicked me out, none too gently, the door viciously slammed in my face and then locked.  I tried begging my way back in.  I tried burrowing through the cracks.  I even [...]