Originally published on Facebook 7 May 2013. Edited for this publication. Josh Olson, a screenwriter, wrote an essay called “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script.” Its thesis was that if you had a nephew or a cousin or next door neighbor of friend of a plumber who wanted Josh to read his screenplay and […]
Originally published on Facebook 23 March 2016. Because people don’t quite get this: if you liked my book and want to tell me so, fine. If you got it from the library, fine. If you borrowed a copy from a friend, fine. A used bookshop, fine. However, it is not necessary to tell me, at length, […]
Originally published on Rinn Reads 13 Feb 2014. You see, the thing is, I’m a story guy. I would be a story guy even if I wasn’t also a writer of fiction and therefore a producer of stories myself. My hunger for story is insatiable; it is in large part what drives me. It probably […]