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New motion picture project goes into development

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My surf-themed dramatic novella “The Rise and Fall of Piggy Church” has been optioned for feature film development by Los Angeles filmmaker Madeleine Farley, who plans to shoot the picture on location in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Industry veteran Whitt Brantley has signed on as executive producer. The story, adapted in a similar vein to a […]

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Documentary film released! To show at Golden Isles Film Festival

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Documentary film “No Bats” released on YouTube Award-winning Los Angeles documentarian Madeleine Farley has released the inspiring story of the No Bats Baseball Club’s 35 years of charity benevolence as a half-hour film documentary. Titled “No Bats” (Raising millions, helping thousands), the film is set in Dyersville, Iowa at the original movie site for Kevin Costner’s […]

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What the Heck Have I Been Up To?

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Top five answers: 1. Writing. 2. Editing books and screenplays. 3. Adjunct professor-ing a class of one at a British university. 4. Starring in a 28-minute documentary about my charity organization, the No Bats Baseball Club. To see it, go to YouTube and search for No Bats Baseball Club. Click on the “Documentary” link and […]

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Looking Back, Looking Ahead

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Catching Up Book promotion, teaching and consulting, researching the good and bad of Artificial Intelligence, revisiting life for a commissioned memoir, plus the creation of a challenging, complex collection of thread-connected short stories have pulled me in all directions except this one. I apologize for the lapse in blog updates. I no good reason yet […]

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Lucas Goes to Cabo (comedy novella)

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 Lucas Goes to Cabo It is harder to make someone laugh than cry, which is why I love to bring smiles to readers through character-rich ensemble comedies. Having written comedy for money since I was 17, I’m somewhat adept judging good from bad. Lucas Goes to Cabo is a good one. This “battle of the sexes” […]

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The Pursuit of Happiness

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Do you buy this hypothesis or not? Last month Fast Company magazine published an on-line book promotion piece that claimed most of our beliefs about how to pursue happiness are wrong. If you take a look at this list and have a moment to let me know whether or not you buy what the authors are […]

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Simplified Strategic Planning: Work Smarter, Not Harder

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The American Management Association says 80 percent of strategic plans are never executed. This, of course, translates to a colossal waste of time. Our one-day workshops teach the world’s best process for quickly building strategic plans that are truly “do-able.” The method is fast, replicable, and scalable. We are also available for multi-day facilitation to assist […]

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Donald Trump’s Curious Math: Addition by Division

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As America heads into the stretch of its nomination free-for-all formerly known as presidential campaigning, the emotion of the Donald Trump candidacy deserves a bit of behavioral dissection. The flamboyant businessman is single-handedly unlocking dormant emotion and stoking frustration into activism that threatens to change us from the United States of America to the Divided […]

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