http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/
and I encourage all of Melinda's friends to go and check it out and leave a calling card.
For those of you who may not be familiar with her work, Melinda has been my assistant editor and right hand on WILD CARDS since the series was first born back in the 1980s. She was the creator of Dr. Tachyon and Dr. Finn, two of our most popular characters, and has a great new character called Double Helix set to debut in the new Wild Cards book, INSIDE STRAIGHT, that Tor will be publishing next January. She and I also collaborated on a couple of screenplays back during my Hollywood days -- a WILD CARDS feature film featuring the Turtle and Dr. Tachyon, and an adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs classic, A PRINCESS OF MARS. Neither one ever made, alas, but that's the way it goes in Hollywood, and we did get wheelbarrows full of money, so it wasn't all bad.
Snod also wrote some great television and film all by her lonesome, including the now-classic "Measure of a Man" episode of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, some great episodes of REASONABLE DOUBTS and THE PROFILER, and the pilot for STAR COMMAND, her own SF show, which filmed in Germany (ask her about the robot than ran amuck and smashed the set) and should have been picked up for series, but wasn't. She's written a brand new WILD CARDS feature screenplay as well, and is deep in discussions with various Hollywood studios about getting it optioned and filmed, so cross your fingers.
She also has a big new novel coming out from Tor next year.
I shouldn't be telling you all her news, however. Give her a visit, say hi on her blog, and you can hear it all first hand.
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Who do I have to get, off or get off to get a copy of that? And why the hell wasn't it made?
It was all Melinda's fault. She grew up on those Barsoom books, and shanghaied me into the project.
It wasn't made because Jeffrey Katzenberg, on his last week at Disney before moving to Dreamworks, decided to move the projection from Hollywood Pictures / Touchstone (live action) to the animation division of Disney proper, so it could be done as a musical. Tars Tarkas singing and dancing! Anyway, our script wasn't considered suitable for that purpose, so it was thrown out and they started all over.
Nothing came of it, of course, and eventually Disney's option ran out and another studio stepped in, bought the book, and started developing it all over again with their own writers.
Yeah, last I heard they gave the project to some hack family-comedy director. Oh, to think of what might have been...
Melinda
I could be wrong, of course.
Sliante,
Saint Dharma
It is sad that they've given it up, but on the other hand Favreau doing Iron Man isn't a bad thing either.
Sliante,
Saint Dharma
By "debacle", I was just referring to the DGA rules not allowing Rodriguez to share directing credit with Frank Miller, so he left rather than comply. The rules are there to keep executive producers or stars from getting "co-director" credits for no better reason than that they want it, and while there can be exceptions (the Coen brothers, for example) Miller's lack of previous directing experience didn't make that a viable option as far as the DGA is concerned.
I'll google her novel. I'm always looking for a good read. ;)
Thanks!
The last two books were only ever printed in hardback and are quite rare. Even so, they're not outrageously hard to find or expensive.
I loved John Carter too... love to see that script sometime. :D
The two hardcovers from iBooks, DEUCES DOWN and DEATH DRAWS FIVE, are still widely available today at their original cover price, but in time they may become expensive as well. This is especially true of John Miller's novel, DEATH DRAWS FIVE, which was published only two weeks before iBooks went bankrupt. According to Bookscan, only 600 copies actually got out before the publisher went under. So if you're interested in getting all the Wild Cards books, that's one you would do well to snap up now, before the last copies vanish from circulation and the price begins to climb.
In time, of course, we would love to get all of the old Wild Cards books reissued, but that's not going to happen for a few years, if it happens at all. The sales on the new series will determine whether any of the older books get new editions, of course.
I have tried to order Deuces Down from three different places, and no-one seems to be able to get it, any suggestions?
Also, thanks for all the fabulous Wild Cards stuff over the years, as well.
Hey, look, no one says that you have to like Melinda's writing. I am sure that if we ever sat down together and talked books, we'd find that there were a lot of writers I enjoyed that you didn't, and vice versa. We all have our own preferences in fiction.
That's still no cause for coming into my Live Journal and calling a close friend of mine a "low-grade mediocrity." Why not just say you don't enjoy Melinda's stories and leave it at that? If you were looking for a literary discussion, tossing around terms like that is not how you go about starting one. Your choice of language would suggest that, in fact, you're looking for a fight.
I have better things to do than indulge in flame wars, however. So I am going to ask you for an apology... not for not liking a particular book or writer, which is your right, but for your rudeness.
This place is my internet living room, in a sense, and if you want to continue to visit here, I expect a modicum of common courtesy.
I would be interested in a literary discussion, as I don't think that my views here are reducible to subjective judgements such as my taste in jam. But since - for fear of causing offence - I wouldn't have even that kind of discussion about a friend of yours in your own house, I would be grateful if you could point me to an appropriate place to go.
Oh dear. Usually when I say something that makes me feel like a schmuck it's because I've wound myself up to speak truth to power, not insult to talent. I apologise again.
There's an active, ongoing WILD CARDS discussion board at Captain Comics, which you'll find at
http://www.captaincomics.us/forums/inde
A few of our Wild Cards writers drop in there from time to time to field questions and pass along the latest tidbits of news, but mostly it's a fan forum, full of strong opinions and lively arguments. If you want to have a literary discussion about favorite stories and characters -- and the ones who didn't like -- that's a good place to go.
And why didn't I think of them first?
Anything calling itself "historically accurate" involving Greeks and Persians I would tend to want to look in the mouth of.
:^P
I am not a writer nor do I role play your characters. I am just a regular reader. I am in the middle of A Feast for Crows. I just wanted to say thank you for giving me a reson for not needing cable television. And geez I hadn't realized readers were so demanding on you. I know that when you finish A Dance with Dragons I won't be disappointed. I hope you get this message, especially because I had to create some LiveJournal account which I don't understand and will probably never use again.
Respectfully,
Jessica Minko
Yes, I believe Fred and Melinda are indeed distantly related, though I am uncertain as to the precise degree of kinship.
Yes, I believe Fred and Melinda are indeed distantly related, though I am uncertain as to the precise degree of kinship.[/quote]
The really strange thing is, she's also related to Fred Merkle and a distant cousin of Bill Buckner as well...
;-)
"Well, gee aren't you ripping off "Heroes"?"
*COUGH*COUGH*COUGH*
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