The OtherLife Journals

I’m thrilled to announce that Netflix will stream OtherLife worldwide beginning October 15.

I traveled to San Diego for the North American premiere of OtherLife at the San Diego International Film Festival, to see the film screened…

I am counting down to the North American premiere of OtherLife in San Diego on Thursday Oct 5 at 8:00 PM. The chance to see the film on a…

I’ve spent a lot of time over the years shopping for film and television writing coaching. I’ve taken workshops, I’ve had professional…

OtherLife will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival in June!

One of the biggest mistakes I made as a brand-new screenwriter with a real project at stake was that I was afraid to ask questions about my…

Think of development hell as an infinite spin cycle. You are going to the Best Party Ever as soon as your laundry is done. Your amazingly…

I came up in pre-internet publishing. I built my fiction career one painstakingly white-out-corrected typed story and SASE(1) at a time…

When someone in the film business wants to adapt a novel, they start by asking the writer or her agent if the film rights are available…

I never believed my novel Solitaire would be optioned for film. The book is not a good fit for a faithful adaptation. It’s an…

I’ve been waiting — for years — to write about the journey of my film OtherLife.