A great little picture I found of Rue Bourbon, New Orleans, graffittied with 'Love Wins'! A great little picture I found of Rue Bourbon, New Orleans, graffittied with 'Love Wins'!
Last weekend, I went with Katie to the newly opened National Museum of Crime and Punishment located in DC's Chinatown. While it's $18 to go round (compared to the free Smithsonian museums including the zoo), this new addition to DC's landscape of museums is well worth it!
One case that still puzzles today is that of D. B. Cooper who hijacked and ransomed a Boeing 727 in the seventies, only to leap from the back with the money and never be seen again! Check out Cooper's story here! His tale suits the strain of consiracy running through American culture - was he a genius who escpaed the Feds? Or was he too smart for himself and was probably killed on landing or shortly afterwards?
Check out my novel The Murderess and the Hangman about a maid who kills her landlady for a few pieces of furniture here!
Last weekend, I went with Katie to the newly opened National Museum of Crime and Punishment located in DC's Chinatown. While it's $18 to go round (compared to the free Smithsonian museums including the zoo), this new addition to DC's landscape of museums is well worth it!One case that still puzzles today is that of D. B. Cooper who hijacked and ransomed a Boeing 727 in the seventies, only to leap from the back with the money and never be seen again! Check out Cooper's story here! His tale suits the strain of consiracy running through American culture - was he a genius who escpaed the Feds? Or was he too smart for himself and was probably killed on landing or shortly afterwards?Check out my novel The Murderess and the Hangman about a maid who kills her landlady for a few pieces of furniture here!
Not happy with just having one microblogging with Twitter, I got myself attached to Pownce. For some reason, I enjoy signing up for free accounts with these sites where you can post a comment to a buch of followers. Easy self-promotion for one!Not happy with just having one microblogging with Twitter, I got myself attached to Pownce. For some reason, I enjoy signing up for free accounts with these sites where you can post a comment to a buch of followers. Easy self-promotion for one!
Dear England, Here are the England World Cup qualifying matches between now and the World Cup, South Africa 2010!
Before then, of course, it's the Olympics 2012 - in London!
Dear England, Here are the England World Cup qualifying matches between now and the World Cup, South Africa 2010!Before then, of course, it's the Olympics 2012 - in London!
The best review for my novel The Pride and the Sorrow is available here. Thanks again Geoff! 
Cheers internet people! The best review for my novel The Pride and the Sorrow is available here. Thanks again Geoff! Cheers internet people! 
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you've read one of them you will feel that all that happened, happened to you and then it belongs to you forever: the happiness and unhappiness, the good and evil, ecstacy and sorrow, the food, wine, beds, people and the weather. If you can give that to readers, then you're a writer. Who wrote it? (The picture's a clue!)
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you've read one of them you will feel that all that happened, happened to you and then it belongs to you forever: the happiness and unhappiness, the good and evil, ecstacy and sorrow, the food, wine, beds, people and the weather. If you can give that to readers, then you're a writer. Who wrote it? (The picture's a clue!)
So I never thought I'd spend $2.75 on a cupcake. But on Saturday I did - and well, it was worth it, if you like cupcakes that die in the mouth. Another sign of the small business entrepreneurs operating in the city. Check out all the crazy flavors at Georgetown Cupcake!
Only in America!
So I never thought I'd spend $2.75 on a cupcake. But on Saturday I did - and well, it was worth it, if you like cupcakes that die in the mouth. Another sign of the small business entrepreneurs operating in the city. Check out all the crazy flavors at Georgetown Cupcake!
Only in America!
The cat is out of the bag (fish off the line) - we had a little help from the Captain, a former Vietnam Vet!
Rockfish and Bluefish for supper tonight! Nice!The cat is out of the bag (fish off the line) - we had a little help from the Captain, a former Vietnam Vet!
Rockfish and Bluefish for supper tonight! Nice!
Yesterday I read another story of how someone is suing the producers of the new movie Death Race (starring Jason Statham) claiming his ideas were stolen from an original script submittal. The writer's script had a different name but he is claiming his ideas were rejected, then adapted afterwards into the movie that got made. Check out this link!
Yesterday I read another story of how someone is suing the producers of the new movie Death Race (starring Jason Statham) claiming his ideas were stolen from an original script submittal. The writer's script had a different name but he is claiming his ideas were rejected, then adapted afterwards into the movie that got made. Check out this link!
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To distinguish it from the novel, I've called the screenplay The Knight of New Orleans. It's currently with the Film and TV agent Meg Davis, Director of MLA Literary Agents in London.
I also took the move of registering The Knight of New Orleans with the Writer's Guild of America, East as proof of copyright. Copyright is immediately assigned to the originator at the point of writing, so registering any work (or mailing it to yourself in a sealed post-stamped envelope) has to be a wise move.
I look forward to The Knight of New Orleans being sent out next month!
To distinguish it from the novel, I've called the screenplay The Knight of New Orleans. It's currently with the Film and TV agent Meg Davis, Director of MLA Literary Agents in London.
I also took the move of registering The Knight of New Orleans with the Writer's Guild of America, East as proof of copyright. Copyright is immediately assigned to the originator at the point of writing, so registering any work (or mailing it to yourself in a sealed post-stamped envelope) has to be a wise move.
I look forward to The Knight of New Orleans being sent out next month!
The Olympics is starting to look like the Ashes!The Olympics is starting to look like the Ashes!
Last night I went with Katie to Brew at the Zoo at the Smithsonian National Zoo up in Woodley Park, Washington DC. What a good time! You basically walk through the zoo at night, while all the animals are asleep, and the day is cooling down, then for your $40 get handed a Brew at the Zoo stein, and then spend 3 hours sampling about 40 beers! And no, I'm not paid by the company!
Last night I went with Katie to Brew at the Zoo at the Smithsonian National Zoo up in Woodley Park, Washington DC. What a good time! You basically walk through the zoo at night, while all the animals are asleep, and the day is cooling down, then for your $40 get handed a Brew at the Zoo stein, and then spend 3 hours sampling about 40 beers! And no, I'm not paid by the company!
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