Welcome to my personal blog, “Skywriting Extrapolations.” Here you’ll find me pontificating about this, that, and the other thing – whatever strikes my fancy for further exploration. For more concrete stuff, about upcoming and current projects and where they’re at, be sure to sign up for my newsletter, “Bread-and-Butter Answers,” to stay in the know […]
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A COVER’S OWN STORY
I didn’t talk that much with my cover designer, Laura Duffy, about my novel, A FRIEND OF DOROTHY’S, which I’d hired her to design. I wanted to see what she would come up with on her own. To my surprise, she read the entire book, and was very moved by it, and the cover she […]
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THE ONE WHO’S SEEN THE MOVIE
I’ve had the interesting and fortunate experience recently of seeing two works – my play 9/10, which I wrote twenty-two years ago, and my novel A FRIEND OF DOROTHY’S, which I wrote over a period of a few years beginning almost forty years ago, finally see the light of day and, after years of (however […]
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MORTALITÉ D’ETOILE
I confess that when my partner John first pointed out Carole Cook across the room at Café D’Etoile in West Hollywood, I didn’t know who he was talking about. Carole was one of those faces (and voices) people often instantly recognize without remembering her name. She had been on Broadway and in movies, and famously […]
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PAGING DR. KILDARE – STAT!
I find some strange nostalgia trips comforting. 1950s science fiction movies, for example. The kind I grew up watching on the Saturday afternoon movie. THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US or THE DEADLY MANTIS. I can turn on almost any of those movies – and there are now hundreds of them on YouTube – and be […]
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