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Scribe Award Nominees Announced
The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (www.iamtw.org) has announced the nominees for the 2014 Scribe Awards, recognizing the excellence in the field of media tie-in writing… the best...
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James Strauss and his Fake Writing Credits
A year ago, I published a blog post here titled “Easily Fooled” about being on a TV writing panel at a mystery conference with a guy whose writing credits were all fake. I omitted his name to save him...
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The Mail I Get – Advice Edition
People are always writing me for advice about TV and publishing, not that I have any great wisdom to impart. But that doesn’t stop me from replying anyway. Hello Mr. Goldberg: I was referred to you by...
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TV Book Reviews: Jan-Michael Vincent and Steven Bochco
I recently read the stories of two TV celebrities.. one a star in front of the camera (Jan-Michael Vincent), one a star behind it (Steven Bochco). One is a biography, the other a memoir…and both were...
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Our Worst Script
Here’s an excerpt from “About Face,” the worst script that William Rabkin and I ever wrote…but before I share it with you, here’s the story behind it (which I originally shared on this blog back in...
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Making Movies: Gun Monkeys and The Walk
Eugenio Mira and Lee Goldberg I’ve got lots of movie news to share that I’ve been keeping bottled up for some time. First off, my novel THE WALK is being made into a movie, to be directed by Eugenio...
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The Mail I Get – Grab Bag Edition
From the grab bag…here’s a bunch of recent mail that I’ve received and my replies: I’d like you to adapt my unpublished novel XYZ for the screen or perhaps a TV series. It could also be multiple...
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Goldberg vs Goldberg: The Interview
Author/editor Steph Cha had the brilliant idea of assigning my brother Tod Goldberg the task of interviewing me for Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)….the result is probably the most personal, and...
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I got this email from a total stranger this morning. She said, in part: “Okay, here goes. I’m a teen therapist for 20 years… I’ve been writing for a long, long time. Just putting it out there. I’d love...
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The Joy of Sets
I recently released a slim little book called THE JOY OF SETS: Interviews on the Sets of 1980s Genre Movies. Go back in time with me to the 1980s, when I was a young journalist and aspiring author,...
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