Good Morning Possums,

I have just been conmfirmed as a guest author on Thursday night's author chat on Romancejunkies.com 9pmEDT/6pm Pacific DT. I will be posting a new HOT excerpt and as usual we'll be giving away prizes including free book downloads, so come on board and join the fun.
I am already working on my Queen of Pentacles book and it's called "Iolani and the Everlasting House of Fire", set of course in Hawaii, but this one is in another realm of Hawaii.  I've opened with a hot man-man sex scene so hopefully this one will get my readers' pants in a twitch.
Last night I went to hear film critic Kenneth Turan hawk his new book and speak on the state of film at my local library, Studio City branch. He was affable, but so dull for the first fifteen minutes because he had obviously not prepared anything for his 'lecture' even forgetting names of films, directors, etc. that people started asking question, which actually perked things up a little.
I mysteriopusly stumped him by asking him, "What's your favorite one hit wonder?"
He replied: "Good question." He then turned bright red and said, "I can't remember. I can't think."
I said, "Okay, [thinking 'how can you NOT be able to answer a question like that???] since you can't answer that question, can I ask you another one?"
He giggled like a nine year old girl who's just been told that her dress is tucked into her underpants and said, "Okay."
So I told him I am a script reader for a studio and I said that in the last two years I haven't read one good screenplay, so where are they getting these screenplays to keep churning out crap?
He said, "Good scripts are hard to find."
I sincerely and utterly hope he doesn't believe this to be a fact.
Because it is just absolutely incorrect.
Screenplays are out there, they just never see the light of day. Three people in the room sidled up to me, including a sweet old 90 year old gent hardly able to shuffle towards me fast enough presented me with business cards saying, "I have a good screenplay" or "My best friend wrote a brilliant screenplay."
Apart from the fact that people who do coverage (to use industry lingo) only read what they're assigned, if I was able to submit and recommend material, I would start with mine and all my friends, you morons.
Just like the studio heads do.
Opps. Did I just say that?
Back to the bump 'n' grind...

Aloha oe,

A.J.
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