For the past month, I have been scaling the seemingly impossible summits of paperwork attendant to my life as a writer/director/producer/business owner/novelist. Boy, that’s a lot of slashes. We’re talking about dozens of forms from contracts for actors and directors, vendor agreements, tax paperwork, financial statements, and the list stretches on until it becomes a… Continue reading If You Need Me, I’ll Be Climbing Paperwork Mountain
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Dear Diary
Oscar Wilde wrote that “[m]emory...is the diary we all carry about with us.” Our memories are some of the strongest forces in our creative lives. They can shape plots, characters, scenes, topics, themes, anything we want to produce. Before I get too heavily in tying memory to writing, I want to tell a little story.… Continue reading Dear Diary
Li Johnson is Coming to Men of Mystery
Daniel Stallings will be attending the Men of Mystery event in Long Beach, CA to promote his Li Johnson mystery books! As a special event for this amazing gathering, he and Master Mystery Productions has created I SPY A CRIME SCENE, an interactive murder mystery puzzle for guests at Men of Mystery to try and… Continue reading Li Johnson is Coming to Men of Mystery
Preorder Clean Up on Aisle Six
Clean Up on Aisle Six, the second book in the Li Johnson Mysteries, is on sale now wherever books are sold for preorder. The book officially releases on October 1, 2019. The Minimum Wage Manhunter is back, bagging groceries and a killer. After solving a murder at his last low-paying job, 20-year-old Li Johnson thought… Continue reading Preorder Clean Up on Aisle Six
A True Original
At a critique group meeting several years ago, one member expressed a concern common to all creative people. He wanted his work to be “original.” What did that mean? What followed was one of the most interesting conversations I had on the idea of originality and what it takes to be a true original with… Continue reading A True Original
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