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February 19, 2014
Teen Author Boot Camp 2014: Interview with Tyler Jolley
(Tyler Jolley is a combination you’ve never heard of before; a dentist and a writer. He runs the site Jolley Smiles about dental health. On the writing side, his book that he co-wrote with Sherry Ficklin The Lost Imperials just released this past November to great reviews.) Why did you get into writing? The ladies [Read More...]
February 18, 2014
JoJo’s Indie Artist Spotlight: Brian Higgins
(We at Geek Goes Rogue loves indie artists who live on their art and who want to make a difference in the world. To that end, we try to highlight Indie artists as much as we can. Here, our intrepid Hollywood connection, Jo Schaffer, interviews Brian Higgins about his passion to use art to help [Read More...]
February 17, 2014
Teen Author Boot Camp 2014: Interview With J. Scott Savage
(Teen Author Boot Camp is one of the largest writer’s conferences for teens in the country. J.Scott Savage is the guy who brought all the lovely ladies from Writers Cubed together. In fact, they call him “dad”. Turns out, he is an amazing writer in his own right and agreed to sit down with us [Read More...]
February 11, 2014
Bound by Words: Love, Tragedy and Faith in a Writer’s Group
The “lone wolf” writer is firmly fixed in the cultural psyche. Everyone believes the phrase, “writing is a solitary profession.” There is some truth to the statement. When a person sits down to write, they’re doing it by themselves with no one looking over their shoulder. It’s just them and the voice (sometimes voices) in [Read More...]
February 10, 2014
#HamonNye Epilogue: What People at the Debate Said….
Hey Everyone Here is a short video summing up the crowd at the HamOnNye debate. We post for your edification or rage, depending on your point of view. Screw it, its the Internet which is completely fueled by rage…..
February 6, 2014
JoJo’s Hollywood Stories: The Giver Set Exclusive!!!
A brilliant sun glared off the white snow as we pulled into the film camp of the movie, The Giver. Production trailers, catering trucks and equipment crammed the lot. Clark and I unloaded the stunt props he’d built and a man radioed up the ski slope to let the stunt coordinator know we’d arrived. [Read More...]
February 5, 2014
HamonNye Final Thoughts: This Debate Personifies What’s Wrong with America….
Many bloggers rushed to post their thoughts right after the debate. I couldn’t do this because I drove through a blinding snowstorm, and gave up to find a hotel. As I drove home this morning, I sorted through what I wanted to say. The whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth and I [Read More...]
February 3, 2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Hollywood’s Greatest Chameleon
It’s not often that I get depressed about the death of a celebrity. It’s happened though. In September 2006, I woke up to the gut-wrenching news that Steve Irwin, better known as The Crocodile Hunter, had been impaled by a friggin’ pancake fish. That sucked, I loved that guy. In April 2009, I had just [Read More...]
January 31, 2014
HamonNye: Live Blog of the Debate here
Hey Folks, We will be live blogging from the debate at the Creation Museum on Tuesday February 4th, 2014. Stay tuned! You’ll be able to follow all the action on Twitter @authorjryan and same handle on instagram. Read our articles leading up to the Debate: Interview with Ken Ham Interview with Dr. Jack Collins, theological badass [Read More...]
