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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Joe Burke is an indie filmmaker and actor best known for his new award-winning movie Burt, Four Dogs, Another Cancer Movie, House Sitting and more. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous national commercials and television...
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Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub History Why readers...
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Since it is July 4, 2026, I thought it might be an opportune to remember America's Bicentennial celebration of 1976....50 years agoI remember the occasion, five decades ago, well. I was six years old, and the Bicentennial -- the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence -- was all the craze, all over the country. I was in Kindergarten at...
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Writing A Mystery Writing a mystery is HARD. I’ve published ten novels now, many of them crime fiction. However, any genre in any medium can benefit from a mystery component. Police procedurals and domestic noir are the key subgenres that use mystery components. There have been over two hundred years of detective novels, plus modern… Read More »How Mystery Works: 7...
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd MASTERCRASH: A Crash Course In Spoof Comedy https://mastercrash.com BUY THE BOOK - Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! https://amzn.to/3FULs2N Born on October 16, 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,...
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Howdy, friends! Welcome back to another perfect installment of Am I The Literary Asshole?, a drunken advice column that’s just happy to be here. I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and I’m proud to announce that it’s officially Miller Time. That’s...
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From the world’s wildest places to the origins of American fascism to memoirs of grief and recovery, July’s nonfiction has something for everyone. * The Savage Landscape, Cal Flyn Flyn’s 2021 book, Islands of Abandonment, was a wonderfully written, compelling...
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Why the Frederick Douglass speech we should revisit this July 4th isn’t the obvious one. | Lit Hub History These 10 great children’s books out in July include new work from Jaque Jours, Celeste Pewter, Sumayyah Beck and more. |...
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Directed by Anthony Perkins, Psycho III (1986) is -- perhaps paradoxically -- both sleazier and more spiritual than its 1960 and 1983 predecessors were. The third film in the Psycho mythos explores a world of the fallen; a world of sex without love, and cynicism but no truth. Yet the film’s consistent use of religious symbolism suggests that Norman Bates can yet be redeemed, and...
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Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Dwight Garner on Colin Asher’s The Midnight Special, Hamilton Cain on Teddy Wayne’s The Au Pair, Michael Donkor on Keith Ridgway’s Dooneen, Stephen Marche on Cory Doctorow’s The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, and...
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Former Ayesha Pande Literary agent Annie Hwang has launched Renegade Literary. representing literary fiction as well as established poets....
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A press release says they will focus on “analog-inspired products that empower Gen Z to digitally detox.”...
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Pocket Books is a mass-market imprint that will be returning to publish romance, romantic thrillers, and horror....
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Kwame Alexander Books will publish picture books, middle grade, young adult, and adult titles by Alexander as well as other authors....
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Pocket Books is a mass-market imprint that will be returning to publish romance, romantic thrillers, and horror....
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I went through every craft in post-production, from VFX and de-ageing to voice, dubbing and the cutting room, checking the AI hype against more than two dozen real films and shows....
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One of my all-time favorite cult movies is John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986), a film involving an American hero treading into a mysterious, non-Western world where he feels like an “outsider.” That world, in this case, is not literally another planet, but rather the mystical and dangerous world of Chinese black magic. So. movie audiences get an on-screen representative of “us”...
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This essay began as a plea which turned out, as desires sometimes do, to be a little psychic (“That woman, I conjured her,” says Gwyneth Paltrow’s overwrought Plath in the failed 2003 biopic Sylvia, discussing Assia Wevill, the infamous “other...
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The “Wayward Girl” in fiction—and unfortunately, in reality—is defined less by her own actions and more by a society determined to “correct” her. The “waywardness” is usually a symptom of being too poor, too outspoken, or simply being in the...
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd A lawyer turned producer and studio executive, Peter M. Hoffman built a career that bridged the creative and the corporate, the visionary and the pragmatic. As the founder and CEO of Carolco and Seven Arts Entertainment, he...
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How to Write a Character Arc That Feels Earned, Not Forced A lot of screenplays have character arcs. Or at least, they think they do. The protagonist starts with a flaw. They struggle for a while. Someone tells them what their problem is. Then, somewhere near the end, they realise the error of their ways, […] The post How to...
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Sitting still with minor physical discomforts builds mental strength that, applied to your writing, helps you write emotionally difficult scenes....
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd 0:00 - Intro 3:06 - Chapter 1 12:42 - Chapter 2 25:45 - Chapter 3 36:53 - Chapter 4 50:20 - Chapter 5 1:05:40 - Chapter 6 1:20:43 - Chapter 7...
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Feeling Overwhelmed With Writing? If you’re feeling overwhelmed with writing right now, you’re not alone. But let’s cut the crap. If you’re a writer saying things like: “I have so many ideas, but I can’t commit to just one.” “I just don’t know which idea will help my career the most.” “I start writing, then… Read More »Overwhelmed With Writing? Stop...
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Although it bombed at the box office in 1986, Labyrinth -- director Jim Henson’s elaborate follow-up to The Dark Crystal (1982) -- is one of those films that, across the span of decades, has attained cult classic status. More than that, the film has found meaning and relevance for generation after generation of enthusiastic, imaginative children.Although the film’s final act degenerates into unnecessary and...
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd WATCH 'DEATH CIPHER' https://tubitv.com/movies/100047888/death-cipher CONNECT WITH WADE PATTERSON https://deathcipher.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5006425 https://www.youtube.com/@BlazewalkerPictures https://www.instagram.com/realwadepatterson MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS 3 Biggest Lessons I've Learned As A Filmmaker - https://youtu.be/IRzjV1QVcdk 99% Of Screenplays Are Rejected After The First Scene - https://youtu.be/ajjtHVd-WNw...
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"In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's...
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Learn how to prepare clean Word manuscripts and mark PDFs for book production—avoiding unnecessary formatting and using styles correctly to save time....
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Matt Harry has been writing since he was 10 years old. He learned to make movies at the University of Southern California, which was the closest he could get to attending Hogwarts in the real world. He...
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Boston bookstore Porter Square Books has launched a book review newsletter, the Porter Square Review of Books....
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The agency will focus on music titles, film, literary biography, art and design, photography, graphic novels, and other areas of pop culture....
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I read forty years of academic research and analysed 50,830 films to answer the question I get asked most. Here are the 18 ways people actually make money in film....
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Join me LIVE on Friday at 1pm PDT. https://fastscreenplay.com/live...
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Before writing your novel, imagining the first and last scenes can help clarify the story’s point and the reader’s emotional journey....
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Adam Argot has worked in film, TV, games, and publishing as a director, writer, author, story and concept artist for over 15 years for both major and independent studios. Along with...
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I studied 69,832 on-screen deaths from 43,983 movies to calculate which on-screen jobs have the highest and lowest survival rates....
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Zac Reeder is an Emmy-nominated producer and seasoned media executive with leadership roles at Netflix, Hallmark, and MarVista. Now as a producer’s rep and distribution/financing consultant, he helps independent film and TV producers secure deals, maximize exposure,...
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Published 15 days ago
At the 2026 U.S. Book Show, Hollywood scouts and studio execs revealed what makes books adaptable—including why sales don’t always matter, BookTok rules, and YA isn’t really YA....
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Join our next class! 12 Things You Should Know Before Writing A Screenplay (June 20th) - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/12-things-you-should-know-before-writing-a-screenplay-tickets-1990839616886?aff=oddtdtcreator Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Nick Morton has produced nearly 30 movies / tv series which include RAY (Jamie Fox, Regina King, Kerry Washington), SAHARA...
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Published 17 days ago
I traced who represented the key creatives on 2,058 big films at the moment each deal was struck, then counted how often it was all one agency....
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A pro-football player, Morgan (Marjoe Gortner) and two friends spend a weekend in the country and unexpectedly meet up giant animals in the woods. After one of his friends his killed, Morgan investigates and find that a strange substance bubbling out of the ground on the Skinner farm is causing animals such as rats and wasps to grow to dangerous proportions. A...
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Join our next class! 12 Things You Should Know Before Writing A Screenplay (June 20th) - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/12-things-you-should-know-before-writing-a-screenplay-tickets-1990839616886?aff=oddtdtcreator Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd 0:00 - Intro 2:33 - 10 Years To The First Screenwriting Credit 37:14 - What Writers Should Know About A...
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