What is a Ghostwriter?

The good folks at freelancewriting.com published this article a few months ago, complete with genuine author attribution. No ghost writing here, nosirree. But we know many writers who have ghostwritten their way into bigtime careers.

by Karen Cole

Ghostwriters are writers for hire who are paid but receive none of the credit for the work produced. read article

Last Week’s Most Important Cord Cutting Developments

This pic’s for TVWriter™ frequent visitor Bettina, who says she’s missed seeing the big Cord Cutter “Hello!” right here at TVWriter™. You’re welcome, Betts.

Cord Cutters News gives us the latest on the cord cutting front, including Roku’s big fall 2021 updates, new content deals for Pluto TV and Netflix, a birthday event for Disney+, and more!

Cord Cutters Video Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tUZA7GiIZPaUu4FQXnFYA

Cord Cutters Web Site:
http://cordcuttersnews.com read article

munchman: Speaking of popular podcasts…

via https://podnews.net/update/podcasting-popular-countries

by munchman

If podcasts are so fucken popular, how come das munchinkin doesn’t know anybody (that’s right, not one single human or for that matter dog, cat, horse, or turtle) who’s ever listened to one?

munchy snark score

3 STARS OUT OF 5

Omitting the fourth and fifth stars because let’s face it here, there’s so little real interest in podcasting that anything moi or you or anybody else says about it is meaningless.. read article

munchman: Ain’t Pushback Wunnerful?

by munchman

That’s Mr. Lieber on the left and looks like Disney/Marvel on the right?

Whoa! The big news yesterday – you know, Sunday, a day when they never show us any news, which explains why you never heard about it before as well as why yer friendly neighborhood muncher-in-chief isn’t reporting it til today…wait. Where wuz I?

Oh. Right. The big news is that – and this is a headline at dailycartoonist.com:

LARRY LIEBER, STAN LEE’S BROTHER, SUES MARVEL

And yessirree, what LL is suing about is “a bigger portion of the pie” Marvel and its master, Disney, are making from film characters like Thor, Iron Man, Ant-Man, Loki et al, all of which, it turns out first appeared in comic book stories credited as written by, yeppers, you guessed it, Larry L his oh-so-very self. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #168 – “Rewriting Magic”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned. read article