Entries from November 2008

November 25, 2008

Rejection

If you’re a writer and want to be published, you need to be able to accept rejection–it’s part of the process.
Recently I spoke to a short-story writer who once visited a critique group I belong to and I asked him what he was doing with his writing. He said he no longer sent it out [...]

November 23, 2008

Interview with author Joal Ryan on Share-a-Vision Radio

In you case you missed it, our Nov. 18 program is now available on the archives page at www.tvconfidential.net. Our guest that night was Joal Ryan, correspondent for E! Online, editor and publisher of FSNCentral.com and author of Former Child Stars: The Story of America’s Least Wanted; together we discussed the careers of Gary Coleman (Diff’rent Strokes), Jackie [...]

November 11, 2008

Writing Workshops and a Great Review

As usual, as it becomes time to write my blog, I wonder what I’ll write about.
Today, I’ll be talking about something only vaguely related to writing.
Recently, I presented two workshops with a writing partner at a writers conference. Both presentations were exactly what was advertised. In the morning we gave a talk on marketing, [...]

November 9, 2008

Literary Detectives and America’s Top Sleuths: This week on TV Confidential

In case you missed it, last week’s edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL is now available on the archives page at Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org, as well as our own website, www.tvconfidential.net. The program features an encore segments from October 2006 in which we discuss the Top 25 film and TV detectives, as chosen by viewers of The Sleuth Channel, plus [...]

November 8, 2008

Helping the Humane Society

If you love animals like I do, you will love this calendar. This is my way to contribute to something I believe in, the Humane Society. If I had a farm I would take a few animals and care for them but since I don’t I raise money for them instead.
Please consider the new [...]