Patricia Abbott (pattinase)

Originally run on Crimespree Cinema. The Traverse City Film Festival, the brainchild of film maker, Michael Moore, takes place the last ...

4. Do most of your story ideas come from your own life, stories you read about, a flash of an idea? What? Michael Bracken: They come f...

I heard this line in a movie last week and it has resonated in my head ever since. I googled it and it must be the fourth most common sent...

I cannot take any credit at all for this. But I do point out weeds.

Please check out Todd Mason's blog for links.

My parents would have been married seventy years today. Dad died last November on his 96th birthday, my mother the year before. This wa...

I first saw The Heidi Chronicles, written by Wendy Wasserstein, in New York at the Plymouth Theater in 1989. It starred the amazing Joa...

. WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK ~ CROAKER: KILL ME AGAIN PAUL BISHOP ...

This was a tough choice for me because damn, he was versatile. But I am going with REAR WINDOW. It may be my favorite movie ever for that ma...

Gary Cooper could play any role and this is a good example. Directed by William Wyler, I watched this film over and over as a teenager...

Bad Girls are not necessarily femme fatales here, but a female presence in a book or movie that wreaks havoc. There have been plenty of e...

HOW I WROTE THIS STORY Mapping the Territory published in Shotgun Honey. ...

A terrific interview with Megan on Memphis Public Radio can be found here . Question 2. What is the average length of time it takes you to f...

I wrote last year about how the library in Troy Michigan was closing due to a no vote on a library millage. Well, this week the voters of T...

Mia is the daughter of good friends and is making her way in the big city of New York. Aside from making delectable pastries and selling the...

Next week, check with Todd Mason for the links. Come away with me to the Traverse City Film Festival. (at Crimespree Cinema) Yvette Banek, ...

Michel Williams I’m a Northern Californian with a gentle Texas influence (otherwise known as husband of forty years.) Been a reader all my ...

This is from the movie, of course. I saw A FEW GOOD MEN at THE MUSIC BOX on Broadway in 1990. Phil was working on a book on V.F. Calverton a...

LIQUID SMOKE, Jeff Shelby Back to the future. That's what this feels like. Back to the future. When I completed my second book, Wicke...