by DianneSalerni | Jan 30, 2010 | caged graves, Pennsylvania graves
A chill went up and down my spine when I first saw the picture on the internet: a lonely graveyard with worn and tilted tombstones – and one grave with an iron cage built around it. A lovely, decorative cage – but a cage nonetheless! A little digging, with the help of...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 27, 2010 | Strider Nolan
I am pleased to announce the release of Visions Volume 2, the second in a series of pulp fiction anthologies published by Strider Nolan Media in cooperation with Visionary Comics. Ron Fortier, of Pulp Fiction Reviews and Airship27 Productions, calls Visions “the real...
by Dianne Salerni | Jan 24, 2010 | Fox sisters, Maggie Fox, spiritualism, We Hear the Dead
Last night I had the honor of attending the mid-winter concert of SATORI, a professional chamber music ensemble based in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, to hear the premiere performance of Witches and Rappings, composed by Dr. Paul Salerni, Professor of Music at Lehigh...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 21, 2010 | screenplay, We Hear the Dead, writing
How many times have you heard someone complain: “The movie isn’t like the book!” I’m pretty sure I have complained about that myself. Never again. Now my sympathies are entirely with the screenwriter!It’s hard to turn a book into a movie. Heck, it was hard...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 17, 2010 | screenplay, Sourcebooks Fire, Strider Nolan, We Hear the Dead, writing
I wonder if authors appreciate their editors enough. Writing is a very personal thing, and, especially in fiction, the characters and events created on the page can be vividly real to the author. I imagine that the initial reaction of most writers, when asked to...