First News First: Former Boston Red Sox slugger Carl Yastrzemski finally married the beautiful young woman with whom he has been living, last Saturday evening at his favorite restaurant, Anthony’s Pier Four in Boston. Yastrzemski who was a star left fielder for 22 years with the Red Sox, was married to Nancy Benson whom he… Continue reading

Interesting bit of controversy from the UK. Amid constant rumors that he and some of the other surviving members of JRR Tolkien’s family ‘disapproved’ of the New Line theatrical adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Christopher Tolkien issued a statement through family solicitors that he did not in any way disapprove of the film,… Continue reading

Today’s site is for indie DV filmmakers. I know digital movie-makers don’t make films in the technical sense, not when they’re actually shooting, but sites like DVFilm.com show you why it really doesn’t matter any more. Texas filmmaker Marcus van Bavel offers a great book dealing with all aspects of DV filmmaking as well as… Continue reading

Site of the day: Bad as things are in the publishing world, your chances of publishing fiction are still better than selling a screenplay to Hollywood. However, having said that, it’s also become clear over the past year that more and more independent producers and agents are finding material through web sites. One such source… Continue reading

Site of the day: when it comes to opportunities for publishing short fiction, science fiction outlets have been—and remain the best. While other houses, firmly in the thrall of the conglomerates that absorbed them, have had to retrench and confine themselves purely to work submitted by agents, publishers like TOR and ACE still accept unsolicited… Continue reading