Category Archives: tales of development hell

Is the Ei8hth Deadly Sin a Psychic One?

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Steven

This Friday, December 16, is the release date, in movie theaters and for Video On Demand, for Solace, a thriller starring Anthony Hopkins (Westworld), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead), and Colin Farrell (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them). … Continue reading →

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Curious George and the Almost Graphic Novel

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Steven

The things you find when going through old file backups… Welcome to the latest installment of Tales From Development Hell, that series of posts in which I tell you about projects I was hired to work on—usually original novels based … Continue reading →

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Stan Lee’s Alexa: The Lost Issue, Part 2

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Steven

Welcome to the conclusion of a special On Writing/Tales of Development Hell crossover event! As I explained in yesterday’s post, Stan Lee’s Alexa—a comic book I wound up writing for publishing house ibooks, inc. in 2004—began (with a different writer) … Continue reading →

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Stan Lee’s Alexa: The Lost Issue, Part 1

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Steven

Welcome to a special On Writing/Tales of Development Hell crossover event! Yesterday, we celebrated Stan Lee’s 93rd birthday with my tale of how The Man and I worked on a short-lived comic book project called Stan Lee’s Alexa—short-lived, as in … Continue reading →

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More Than Se7en Deadly Sins

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Steven

Today is the 20th anniversary of the day that Se7en—the 1995 crime thriller directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, Gone Girl), written by Andrew Kevin Walker (8MM, Sleepy Hollow), and starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and Gwyneth Paltrow—debuted in movie … Continue reading →

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You Have the Right to Remain Unpublished

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Steven

Welcome to part two of Law & Order: Tales of Development Hell, part of a series of posts in which I tell you about projects I was hired to work on that never made it all the way to completion. … Continue reading →

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The Cop Book Series That Got away

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Steven

“In the mainstream publishing system, licensed books are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the licensors that own the intellectual properties, and the editors who work with authors to maintain the license’s integrity. These are their stories.” The … Continue reading →

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Battlestar Galactica: The Almost Novel

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Steven

“There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. Some believe that there may yet … Continue reading →

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Trains, Brains, and Killer Monkeymen

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Steven

In last Friday’s post, I told you a Tale of Development Hell involving a proposed collection of brand-new movie reviews that was canceled shortly after a number of writers and I had delivered our contributions. Here then, for your reading … Continue reading →

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That Time Dracula, Grand Moff Tarkin, and Kojak Became Monster Hunters

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Steven

You remember my series of posts called Tales of Development Hell, don’t you? They’re the real-life stories of publishing projects in which I’d been involved that died tragic deaths somewhere during the development process. Sometimes they were murdered before a … Continue reading →

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