Happy Friday, you glorious word nerds. Here are three things for this week:
1. My new book, WE STILL REMAIN, released on Tuesday, February 27. I had the largest first day sales of any book I've ever written. Not too bad for doing this silly publishing game for almost twenty years now. Still, it's a pretty pale first day compared to big books. I'm taking a lot of steps to try to move up a level this year, but I'm not sure if anything I'm doing will help. Still, WE STILL REMAIN is a spin-off from my Survivor Journals series that follows 17-year-old Benjamin Borntrager, a young man from an Amish community in Cashton, Wis. as he deal with the onset of the global primate-killing virus called The Flu. I wrote this book in about a month. I had been thinking about it for years, though. I wrote it as a surprise and a thank-you to everyone who kept asking for more Survivor Journals. If enough people demand a sequel for this, it might happen. 2. ELSBETH on CBS. Watched the pilot of a new mystery series called ELSBETH last night. Enjoyed it greatly. It's a spin-off of THE GOOD WIFE or some other similar show I never watched. Carrie Preston plays the protagonist, Elsbeth, who is a quirky middle-aged woman with a penchant for noticing clues and putting them together to solve crimes. The most direct correlation to this show is COLUMBO. It's not a whodunit. We know who the murderer is from the jump. The show's charm comes in seeing how Elsbeth corners the killer and makes them admit guilt. Much like Peter Falk's iconic detective, Elsbeth's quirk and silly personality allows the killers to get overconfident, and then she springs a trap on them in the end. It was an exceptionally strong pilot, and I'm looking forward to the next episode. 3. SHOGUN on FX/Hulu. I enjoy James Clavell's prose. And I am old enough to remember the hype when ABC made the original SHOGUN miniseries on summer in like 1980 or so. Richard Chamberlain starred in that one, and it was must-watch TV for the summer it was on. I watched the first episode and found it to be lush, lavish, and intriguing. It's solid television. Plus, Nestor Carbonell is in it, and he's great. (If you haven't seen him as Bat Manuel in THE TICK, you're missing out.) So, there you go: Three things for a new week. Carry on. |
About the AuthorSean Patrick Little is a writer, speaker, editor, educator, and general literary dude from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Click the pictures below to purchase books!
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