Ron Howard and Clint Howard, both of whom are immensely talented and
have been in the wonderful world of showbiz for a long, long time, have written a book.
It’s called The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family, and the reviews are terrific. I really want to read it.
But my eyesight is such that the only books (or magazines, whatever) I can read are ebooks because that’s the only way I can make the font big enough and the contrast strong enough to, well, see the damn words.
…Knowing how the business side of the medium you’re writing for works and dedicating yourself to working that knowledge with the same amount of diligence (actually, obsession) that you use in your writing.
Why am I finally bringing this up on TVWriter™ after all these years? These two blog articles I ran across this morning issued the wake-up call I needed.
by Lizbeth Meredith (@LizbethMeredith) via janefriedman.com
Truer words were never spoken than those above, and we’re delighted to see that the speaker, PJ McIlvaine is one of our favorite people and a top writer as well. Hi, PJ!
PJ McIlvaine has been published in The New York Times and Newsday. PJ is also a regular contributor for the Children’s Book Insider newsletter, and a co-host of #PBPitch, a Twitter pitch party for picture book creators.
PJ has written across ages and genres, including a screenplay for Showtime which became the movie My Horrible Year. Her picture book, Dragon Roar, releases on Oct. 19, 2021 through MacLaren-Cochrane Publishing, Inc, which specializes in books for readers with dyslexia.
…Here’s the best pic of him I’ve ever seen.
Per Herbie J’s email to me:
Thanks to master craftsman and fiction podcaster supreme Bob Tinsley for bestowing this honor upon my most deserving superhero (her hobby is quantum physics!) wife!
via Facebook, but what can you do?