NEW » 07.29.08» Screenwriting
Techniques for Novelists. I'll be teaching this popular online
class from September 14 to September 24, 2008 for RWA's Scriptscene
chapter and any interested non-RWA members (6 lessons posted
over 2 weeks). Don't miss out. Last time I taught this class,
fifty students enrolled. For more inromation, email me,
or got to Scriptscene's website.
05.13.08» Check
out the photo stills of the professional
actors who potray Nelly, Cem and Marvin in the romantic comedy
movie I co-authored for German cable TV, Kissed
Awake in Stuttgart.
05.13.08» This
past week I attended Mario
Giordano’s excellent workshop on “Writing for Animation” and
David Freeman’s equally trenchant “Creating Emotion in Gaming.” It’s
my aim to create teen fiction that will translate well in several
media.
03.12.08» Going
global with your fiction? Check out this article I
wrote for the March 2008 issue of the Romance Writers Report, Romancing
the Globe - Country Profiles: Germany and Holland.
01.15.08» We
came, we saw, we held the press party. The first four episodes
of the ongoing German TV-series I co-write, Abgedreht
in Stuttgart, premiered on the silver screen last month
at the thirteenth annual Filmschau
Baden-Württemberg, a film festival here in Southern
Germany. We, the authors, conceived the first four episodes as
a 90-minute film for just such an occasion. Check out the artsy
and glamorous
folks who attended our world premiere. The actors look truly
glam, and I, the only person who forgot to wear black, look truly
nerdy (I'm in the fourth and seventh pictures down from the top).
01.15.08» The story meister is in. I'm now doing freelance story development, translations and editing of scripts and books. See my PublishersMarketPlace page for more details and keep your eyes peeled for my designated freelancer website in 2008.
5.03.07» Satirist and women's fiction author Josie Brown just interviewed me about the euro-chick writing life and excerpted my story "Dead Men Don't Eat Quiche" in her blog. Come on over and say, "Hi."
2.28.07» My teen time-travel novel The Last Virgin at St. Gilles Charm School just won first place in the Romancing the Novel contest, as selected by editor Chris Kesslar at Dorchester Publishers! Yes!
