Books

Lies, All Lies
When Buddy Ralston finds himself standing dripping wet holding a pair of dry tickets to that evening’s Emmy Awards in 2019, he doesn’t know where he is, who he is, or why he is talking to the fantastic looking woman in the chaise lounge poolside; all he knows is that he has to figure out who he has been and who he wants to be and what he wants to do with his life. 
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Berns with an “E”
Still reeling over the death of his daughter and deep in a messy divorce from his wife, journalist, radio talk show host, and grieving father Rob Berns stumbles over the dead body of an elderly gentleman – his next door neighbor.
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Rug Berns
When the police told newspaper columnist Rob Berns that his brother, Danny, had committed suicide, jumping off the Vincent Thomas in the darkest hour of that black night, it just didn’t add up.
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Deviant Numbers
The great gene mapping project of the late 20th and early 21st centuries had located every trait on the double helix. Splicing, and then cloning, had made it possible to determine the inclusion of any desired characteristics or the exclusion of any fault. Humans could be designed like an automobile, created for specific purposes, and then reproduced exactly and endlessly by cloning. And they had, by the thousands, when trust in ordinary biology had become too risky. And to ensure that biology would mind its own business, genes for sexual preference had been controlled. No mating would be allowed…
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Rewrite, a Step-by-Step guide to Strengthen Structure, Characters,
and Drama in your Screenplay 
Legendary screenwriting instructor and award-winning writer Paul Chitlik presents an easy-to-read, step-by-step process to take your script from first draft to submission draft. 
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39 Steps to Better Screenwriting
This is not a beginner’s book on screenplay writing, though a beginner could read it and learn. This is a writer’s consigliere. It’s a book of advice and reflection that will kick ass against just about any screenwriting problem. It’s a series of essays on film and television writing, a deep background on very specific craft issues ranging from punctuation to meaning in your screenplay. 
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