Author, Screenwriter, Speaker
1. Everywhere I look, there are stories. I see them in the faces of the people who are queued at the entrance, chatting excitedly, or huddling against the cold. They are predominantly twenty-something and thirty-something wide-eyed tourists, hopeful that on this night, they will be deemed worthy. Scattered among them…
After finishing and revising the early drafts of Just Another Week in Suburbia in 2012, I started thinking about what I should write next. Like most writers, I always have ideas. Often, the query is if those ideas are ready to be written. Sometimes, they need to gestate. Then they…
I grew up reading JRR Tolkien. I read The Hobbit (1937) in 1982 (and played the adventure game for the home computer). That summer break, I read The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), The Two Towers (1954), and The Return of the King (1955).…