Phil Rickman has worked as a BBC radio and TV reporter, and he currently writes and presents the book program “Phil the Shelf’ on BBC Radio Wales. He is also the author of the internationally bestselling crime series featuring Merrily Watkins. Here he shares some suggestions for casting the lead character in a cinematic [...]
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Reavis Z. Wortham’s “The Rock Hole”
Posted by sagolas on June 25th, 2011
Reavis Z. Wortham recently retired from 35 years in public education, the past 25 in the Communications Department of the Garland ISD in Texas, and the final 4 as the Director. He is now a full-time freelance writer and novelist. His first book, Doreen’s 24 HR Eat Gas Now Café, was released in 1999. [...]
Mark Alpert’s “The Omega Theory”
Posted by sagolas on March 10th, 2011
A self-described lifelong “science geek,” Mark Alpert majored in astrophysics at Princeton University, writing his undergraduate thesis on an application of Einstein’s theory of relativity. After earning an MFA in poetry at Columbia and working as a reporter, he became an editor at Scientific American, where he simplifies bewildering scientific ideas for the magazine’s [...]
