The reissue of my novel DESTINY EXPRESS is out May 19 from Rare Bird Books/Unnamed Press. I couldn’t be more thrilled. The novel, set in Berlin, March 1933, follows the lives of filmmakers Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou. They were married. They collaborated intimately (she wrote the screenplays for …
Honored and pleased to have been an advisor at the January Sundance Screenwriters Lab, in the company of dear fellow advisors, inspiring Fellows, extraordinary staff. This year’s Lab — the first since the passing of Bob Redford — was particularly moving. The work of Sundance is at the very heart …
From last night’s USC Scripter Awards, honoring the best adaptation of book to film/series. Winners were: Screenwriter Mike Makowsky for the episode “Destiny of the Republic,” from “Death by Lightning,” based on the nonfiction book “Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President” …