Hard Case, A Publisher on the Ball
Charles Ardai, the publisher at Hard Case Crime, dropped a line to remind me that Max Phillips wrote Fade to Blonde, not Max Allen Collins. Hard Case has quite a schedule ahead including work from Ken Bruen and Jason Starr. I’ve read two of Ken’s books but haven’t had the pleasure of reading Jason. Kudos to Charles, a publisher who looks out for his writers.
Booksquare reports that order has been restored in the City of Angels and that restaurants are processing major credit cards. She didn’t comment about films in production interrupted by studio chiefs trapped in elevators or whether FEMA intervened. Some of the best writers in the world live in LA and everyone of them has learned to back up their work. No word on how Pamela Anderson is faring on her next novel. One can only hope her ghost writer wasn’t shaken too badly. Judith Regan overflew the stricken city in midafternoon to make sure book to movie opportunities weren’t lost while the power was out. My own screenplay, Blackout, adapted from the random thought of the same name, deals with the gritty business of film accounting when the lights go out. Edgar, the slacker protag, falls in love with a mysterious FASB enforcement agent, a woman with a chequered past. A giant lizard swallows Burbank without affecting flight schedules. The lizard just wants to locate the old Brown Derby and have a drink. He’s a tourist. Edgar understands that. I’m thinking Sandra Bullock in all the major roles.