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On my Facebook Author page, I might have several years of helpful links for writers - check it out. I'm @skippress on Twitter. The audio group discusions they have now are great.
If you want an autographed copy of any of my books, contact me for details. I send them via Priority Mail and like being paid via Paypal because I can print out a label directly from that site.
After being interviewed by my friend Andrew Morton for his excellent book on Tom Cruise, I wrote articles about Hollywood and $cientology on his websiote. Meanwhile, The Morton Report is gone but you can find most of those articles now on Medium. Click on Andrew's picture to get there.
My daughter Holly and I at the Reagan Library in early 2009 for an event honoring Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. What an honor it was to meet some of these people and hear their stories of heroism, and to see Nancy Reagan in person. I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan and love the library. At that annual event I met Robert Duvall and thoroughly enjoyed seeing this great actor who thrilled me as "Boo Radley" as a kid accept an award and talk about his love for his country.
My late friend Tim Casey and I worked on a screenplay called "Strayhorn" - the last one written by Oscar winner Bill Kelley, who wrote "Witness." It's a great story we hoped to bring to the screen and Jay Fernandez (then with the L.A. Times, now with the Hollywood Reporter) agreed it should be made. We worked on it with a director and almost got it to Clint Eastwood. If you want to produce a great (and funny) Western, get in touch.
I set up a director's first feature, a horror movie set in Louisiana. Through me, he met a Hollywood veteran who financed the picture. I read the script several times, gave him notes, made a phone call, and my "friend" took it from there, completely screwing me out of any money, credit, or compensation after promising everything. That's Hollywood! Even seasoned pros can get conned.
The way the movie got made is the kind of scenario I've seen over and over in this town. My treacherous "friends" on this project got kicked in the ass by karma - the Hollywood Reporter said the film had the lowest number of attendees per theater in history! 3.6 out of 10 rating.
I helped Yvonne Isaacs shape her book about her experiences as a nursing instructor and nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of hospitals. Raised in England, she ended up in Arkansas and made her mark quickly, including having friends in the Clinton White House. We put together a book proposal and shopped it, and got an agent and some publishing interest, then Yvonne got tired of waiting, wrote this book, and got it published. Her initiative and persistence is admirable; I wish more beginning writers had as much.
There are some very touching stories in this book about families who have a "preemie" birth and I highly recommend reading it.