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Now on Smashwords! Tomorrow’s Child, The Story That Sold To Universal Studios!
The Story That Sold To The Movies! Tomorrow’s Child is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. A high-powered executive is about to lose his estranged teenage daughter to critical burn wounds and...
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#Filmmakers, #producers! Tesla, A Worthy of His Time, A #Screenplay on all...
Tesla is now on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle! Genius. Visionary. Madman. Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was the pioneering genius who invented the AC electrical system that powers our world to...
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Tomorrow’s Child, The Science Fiction Story That Sold To Universal Studios,...
A high-powered executive is about to lose his estranged teenage daughter to critical burn wounds and only desperate measures may save her life. Tomorrow’s Child started out as a script for a medical...
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Fantasy and Science Fiction Movie Night at the Mason-Robinson Manse Lisa...
December 5 is the birthday of Wassily Kandinsky, the pioneering Russian abstract expressionist painter in the early 1900s; Walt Disney, who started out as a humble cartoonist and built the greatest...
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Fantasy and Science Fiction Movie Night at the Mason-Robinson Manse Lisa...
Movie night in celebration of the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year. We saw Elysium (hated it), The Lone Ranger (mostly loved it), and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (pretty much...
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Hitchcock and Psycho (The Movies) and Tomorrow’s Child (My Omni Story That...
The British director Alfred Hitchcock made some of the greatest suspense movies of the twentieth century, starting with The Thirty-Nine Steps in 1935 and on to such classics as North by Northwest, Rear...
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Cats and Other Talking Creatures: Movie Reviews of Charlotte’s Web, The...
I had just published My Charlotte: Patty’s Story, a short sweet memoir about reading E.B. White’s classic children’s book, Charlotte’s Web, and how I wrote my first novel at age eight. Then how I...
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When You Only Have Time for One: The Monuments Men or The Train? Movie Review...
Now and then I visit our lovely local library and borrow a few New Yorker magazines. I’m most interested in the film reviews. The reviewers, David Denby and Anthony Lane, are willing to watch the...
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Twelve Technical Achievements Predicted by Nikola Tesla for his World System...
From My Inventions by Nikola Tesla (1916): “With the World System power plant, it will be practicable to attain electrical activities up to ten million horsepower and to serve many technical...
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Movie Reviews: Inception and Beautiful Creatures...
Inception, directed by the incomparable Christopher Nolan, was released over a year ago. We saw the film then. The premise is that a means of entering the collective unconscious of dreams through drugs...
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State of the Biz: Publishing in 2014 and Beyond, Part 12: Soft Box Office,...
The verdict is in from The Hollywood Reporter: Summer 2014 box office earnings haven’t been so low since 1997. “The studios failed to connect with audiences,” THR laments. This is a polite way of...
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Science Fiction Movies at the Mason-Robinson Manse Lisa Mason
We celebrated Halloween and All Souls’ Day with a science fiction movie marathon! Movie Night One: X-Men, Days of Future Past, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Earth to Echo, As Dreamers Do (no, this film...
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Winter Holidays SFF Movie MiniFestival (Part 2) Lisa Mason #SFWApro
After two days’ respite from the Winter Solstice Movie MiniFestival, we kicked back on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with a traditional Christmas dinner and a homemade pumpkin pie and viewed four...
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Why Is Philip K Dick Considered Iconic? The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle...
Unlike pulp genre science fiction of the nineteen-fifties, featuring spaceships and macho ship captains and bug-eyed aliens, Philip K Dick explored philosophical, sociological, political, and...
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Tesla, A Worthy of His Time: A Screenplay Out On Submission! Lisa Mason #SFWApro
Genius. Visionary. Madman. Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was the pioneering genius who invented the AC electrical system that powers our world to this day, as well as radio, remote control, the automobile...
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Tomorrow’s Child, the Omni Story That Sold to the Movies Lisa Mason #SFWApro
A high-powered executive is about to lose his estranged teenage daughter to critical burn wounds and only desperate measures may save her life. Tomorrow’s Child started out as a script for a medical...
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Have Your Tastes Changed Over The Years? Hate That Film or Book You Used to...
I’ve been reviewing our film collection on video acquired maybe fifteen years ago and deciding which ones to buy on DVD, which to ditch. The criterion is—would I want to see this film this weekend?...
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Movie Night at the Mason-Robinson Manse Lisa Mason
We decided to kick back last night with some movies and a pasta dinner. We saw “Deadpool,” which was an unexpected worldwide hit. This is a Marvel Comix movie that is something of a spoof of Marvel...
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Movie Night For the Autumnal Equinox! Lisa Mason #LisaMason
To celebrate the Autumnal Equinox—and Athena’s second birthday, we made a pasta dinner and watched some movies. Athena is the first cat whose birthday I know. All the other cats were adopted some time...
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Tomorrow’s Child, The Omni Story That Sold To Universal Studios, Lisa Mason...
A high-powered executive is about to lose his estranged teenage daughter to critical burn wounds and only desperate measures may save her life. Tomorrow’s Child started out as a script for a medical...
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