How To Avoid The Cutting Room Floor – Editor’s Advice For On-Camera Actors

Written by Emmy-winning editor Jordan Goldman, A.C.E. (editor on such shows as The Shield & Homeland) who takes you inside the cutting room and pulls back the curtain on how and why directors, showrunners, and editors decide whether your performance makes it on screen.  A good friend of mine in Hollywood mentioned she had been …

GoodReads Book review “The Face Stealer” by Robert Scott Norton

 The Face Stealer by Robert Scott-NortonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I am biased with this book, because I narrated the audiobook version. That being said, a big reason I had an interest in the book was that it kept being compared to having similarities to that show Torchwood that aired on BBC1. I liked …

Artemis Fowl & Foley’s Bakery

Inbetween shooting on the movie “Anniversary” in Maine, I stopped into Longfellow books and picked up an Artemis Fowl novel. A fun thing happened upon walking out of the bookshop- next door, just across the hall, is a bakery named “Foley’s Cakes.” If you read the series, then you know what a fun coincidence this …

10 Good Books That Kept Me Reading Into The Night During 2013

Nearly all of these books are young adult fantasy fiction, with a couple of unique exceptions. Such as the memoir by Minnesotan Richard Curney, the non-fantasy children’s story “A Long Way From Chicago,” and the adult paranormal novel Skullduggery Pleasant. There are two books by the same author, Johnathan Stroud. He must be one busy …

Good Read – Ghost Story “The Screaming Staircase” Lockwood & Co Book 1

In this ghoul-filled month of October, it’s appropriate that actor Paul Cram’s reading a book that turns out to be a macabre ghost story. It’s the latest young adult fiction by Jonathan Stroud The Screaming Staircase. The first in (hopefully) a long series of Lockwood & Co. books to be penned by Stroud. The book …

Noir Style Fiction – Book Report

Adual citizenship pen pal answers my request for a book suggestion on Twitter. Having just finished the final eight-hundredth page of horror novel “The Passage,” I asked if anyone knew of another good book for me to read. In less time than it takes to crack the knuckles of your left hand, the American/Israelite pen …