by DianneSalerni | May 27, 2010 | Maggie Fox, screenplay, We Hear the Dead
Today’s blogpost stems from two Twitter Chats I attended recently. In last week’s YAlitchat, writers and educators were discussing how teachers influence what teens read. The subject of movies from YA books came up, causing the usual waterfall of tweets exclaiming,...
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...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 8, 2010 | Maggie Fox, screenplay, Sourcebooks Fire, We Hear the Dead
All in all, I’d have to say that 2009 was a good year for me.My short story “Necromancer” was published in the first volume of a new pulp fiction anthology titled Visions: Chronicles of a Visionary Universe. That thrill was quickly followed by an...
