5th Wave Dept. One of the other convenient features of a 19-inch Dell Trinitron monitor—drying off your socks after you’ve been caught in a torrential downpour.
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
One of the unexpected pleasures of being an author is occasionally finding out that what you write actually inspires people. Just last week I received a copy of British film star Christopher Lee’s new DVD, The Making of a Legend (the first volume of a planned series of DVDS) recounting the veteran film actor’s experiences… Continue reading
Although the Boston Globe’s on-going campaign to discredit President Bush on a daily basis may delude and satisfy the papers’ owners in New York as well as the liberal establishment in Greater Boston academia, the anti-Bush vapors coming out of Morrissey Boulevard are befitting the old M. Doyle dump site on which the Globe sits.… Continue reading
One of the drawbacks of going with a print-on-demand publisher is that you can’t sell your novels at a competitive rate. A trade paperback from Tor goes for $8.95 or $12.95. But your novel from just about any POD outfit will start at $15.95. That’s just the cost of production. That’s about five dollars more… Continue reading
New York Press columnist Russ Smith has given former Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle, who now writes a weekly piece for the N. Y. Daily News, as rough a going-over as this veteran newspaperman has seen in decades. Smith virtually accuses Barnicle of plagiarism for lifting segments of a piece Jimmy Breslin wrote for Newsday… Continue reading