Tonight is the night! Carleen Brice’s lauded debut novel, Orange Mint and Honey, was purchased by Lifetime Movie Network and has been transformed into a made-for-TV movie for the network called Sins of the Mother. [Read our interview with Carleen here.] Check out the trailer here, and be sure to tune in to the Lifetime [...]

I’m a late adopter when it comes to entertainment. I don’t usually go to movies or buy books or music until I’ve read reviews or talked to trusted individuals that I’m not going to waste my money. Such as it was with the wildly popular new scifi movie Avatar. To be honest, I did not [...]

Last week, you heard me whine about how fried I was after finishing the draft of my MS.  In reward, I’ve taken a week off to detox, ventured outside my cave to go to a movie.  Since it was hubby’s turn to pick, I found myself jostling in a packed theater to see The Hangover. [...]

First, my happy news: The Last Will of Moira Leahy was involved in a four-way book auction in Germany, and sold to the highest bidder! Foreign sales can be important because the advance that foreign publishers pay to your US publisher goes against your US advance (unless you retained foreign rights, which we didn’t). Put [...]

I turned in my final draft the day before Thanksgiving. It. Is. Done. I’ve been enjoying some R&R over the last few days and even went to see two new movies: Twilight and Australia. Maybe I was just full up on being critical of story because of my own work, but I really enjoyed both [...]

Right now I’m in a bit of a movie glom. Books are my first love, always, but for some reason I’m slavering over watching a few good movies. This holiday season has got some toothsome choices to pick over. Tops on my must-see list is Baz Luhrmann’s Australia. I’m a sucker for WWII movies. Throw [...]

Last weekend, my DH and I had a rare night to ourselves and we decided to see a movie. In a sign of my old age, nothing seemed appealing. Demographically, I’m in the target audience for Mama Mia but I really didn’t want to expose myself to Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan capering about a [...]

I just turned my revision of Unbounded in to Elisabeth last night, and so this week it’s going to be about balance for me. Taking my dog for a few more walks. Going for a massage. Catching up on current events (Brangelina had their baby Saturday? Where have I been?). Finishing the paint job on [...]

Last week I blogged about seeing Lars and the Real Girl instead of my intended movie pick for the weekend, Juno. Maybe I’d been tainted by too much publicity about the preggers teen with the acerbic wit and potty mouth, but I took a pass and was glad I’d spent the evening with Lars and [...]

I don’t know what the deal is with my Netflix queue, the cycle is messed up or maybe we forgot to return a DVD and we don’t even know it yet. Thus I headed into the weekend without a movie. So I schleped down to Hollywood Video, intending to rent Juno. People raved about it. [...]

A special announcement from Allison Winn Scotch: I am THRILLED to announce that we have closed a film deal for my next book, TIME OF MY LIFE! Thus, I am so super-excited to announce that the book has been sold to The Weinstein Company, on behalf of Meryl Poster, the former co-president of Miramax, who [...]

Be the hero of your own story. It’s been a long time since I’ve watched a movie hew so closely and so explicitly to theme. Yet this little film about a girl living on a South Pacific island, and who has amazing adventures, provides writers a wonderful lesson in how theme informs story. For that [...]

Those of us hoping New Line’s movie version of The Hobbit would proceed now that its dispute with filmmaker Peter Jackson is resolved have taken another blow.  New Line is now being sued by JRR Tolkien’s heirs (NYT, free subscription required): Following in the footsteps of Peter Jackson, the director of the Oscar-winning “Lord of the [...]

“A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they live?” -from the movie Ever After I was unsure what to write about this week until I stumbled upon a fun article titled “15 Nominees for Worst Movie Dialogue Ever.” You know I had to read it. Sure, I cringed remembering some of the [...]

From IMDb News: Filmmaker Peter Jackson has signed on to produce two movies based on author J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, after resolving his legal feud with studio bosses over unpaid royalties. Jackson has been involved in a long and bitter despite with bosses at New Line Cinema after claiming he had not been properly paid [...]